By: Eric Gundersen
Our newly announced Vision SDK integrates with the Microsoft Azure IoT platform. This partnership improves the driving experience inside the vehicle and generates road data on the backend to power analytic solutions for smart cities, insurance companies, and more.
“The intelligent cloud and intelligent edge bring a wide range of possibilities for the future of smart cities, transportation, public safety and more. By integrating Mapbox’s Vision SDK with Azure IoT Hub, developers will have the power of Microsoft’s global-scale cloud platform and advanced AI services to ingest data in real-time.” — Tara Prakriya, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Azure at Microsoft Corp.
The future of location will be building live maps in real time from distributed sensor networks embedded in vehicles and mobile devices at scale. The Vision SDK runs neural networks directly on a user’s mobile device or embedded hardware within a vehicle to segment the environment and detect discrete features like other vehicles, pedestrians, speed limits, construction signs, crosswalks, vegetation, and more.
We’re integrating the open sourced Azure IoT Edge Runtime, which provides custom logic, management, and communications functions for edge devices. Events detected from the Vision SDK integrated with Azure IoT Edge help developers build responsive applications that provide immediate feedback to the driver and stream semantic event data into Azure Cognitive Services for analysis on the back end.
Developers across a range of industries can securely send collision incidents to an insurance platform, for example; or deliver heavy traffic or blocked roadway alerts to a dispatch network. If businesses want to get granular, developers can send regular reports of activity at a crossing intersection to a business intelligence platform to optimize route paths.
For now, the Vision SDK is only available in private beta for select partners. We will be making it publicly available to everyone in September. Sign up now to get access as soon as it’s available .
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