Sun Singapore deploys intelligent parking solution powered by AMD

Sun Singapore Systems has deployed an AI-based smart parking solution that enhances the accuracy of vehicle licence plate recognition and enables advanced features such as parking spot vacancy detection, lane jam detection, accident detection, and parking violation enforcement

At the heart of the AI-based smart parking system is PlanetSpark’s EdgeAI Box X7 powered by FPGA-based AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs. Aupera Technologies helped design and develop FPGA firmware and AI vision solutions for accurate licence plate reading.

The solution delivers low-latency, energy-efficient and real-time AI inferencing at the edge. The FPGA technology at its core offers a long product lifecycle ideal for edge devices, along with hardware flexibility to adapt to evolving AI models, algorithms, application demands, and industry standards.

“With our focus on durability, low latency and flexibility, the AMD FPGA-based edge AI solution, with its proven ability to support complex calculations on large amounts of data, was the right choice for us. The adaptability of the new edge AI solution will also allow us to deliver new applications to improve car parking system features and services for our customers,” said Eddie Ng, Senior Sales Manager of Sun Singapore.

Most electronic parking systems in Singapore currently use technology that is more than two decades old. Legacy infrastructure lacks AI inferencing, which can deliver more system functions and features. This new solution will enhance the system, allowing the data generated through AI to provide advanced reporting to car park operators.

With the AMD solution utilising the most up-to-date technology, enabling license plate reading accuracy of 99 percent as well as updated parking spot vacancy detection and parking violation enforcement, Sun Singapore is now able to provide a total solution for smart parking.

“By processing data from a variety of inputs, customers can leverage AI to enhance processes we take for granted across a variety of applications, be it smart city, manufacturing, robotics, and beyond,” said Chetan Khona, Senior Director of Industrial, Vision, Healthcare and Sciences Markets at AMD.