China suppliers of car park management systems are focusing development efforts on intelligent, automated versions to improve product efficiency. Toward this end, new technologies such as automatic vehicle identification and parking guidance, and advanced toll collection are introduced in current setups.
To enable these functions, recent models adopt
32-bit Arm 7 processors to accelerate the processing speed and integrate complex applications. The system bus is also upgraded, with makers employing CAN or TCP/IP instead of
EIA-485. These advanced variants are designed for large-scale car park management networks for their expandability, higher bandwidth and faster response time.
Upscale releases support vehicle plate recognition, vacant parking space guidance and auto-balance. Customized units or additional functions can be added on request. Shenzhen Fujica Intelligentized System Co. Ltd has developed an automatic parking guidance setup that comprises a parking space detector, lane and area controller, guidance screen and PC terminal. It can analyze parking space status in different areas and match this with vehicle entering/exiting information, and then send the data to the PC terminal and guidance screen.
Another product development trend points to electronic toll collection. Based on RFID technology, the application is offered as an optional function by most vendors. The CA-ZC0110 model from Shenzhen Carsafe Technology Development Co. Ltd, for instance, is a self-service toll station that works with different paper and coin currencies. The system supports changing and note printing functions and recharges monthly, yearly or temporary cards. It has a 17in LCD screen and runs on TCP/IP for remote management.
To enhance system reliability and stability, suppliers are optimizing hardware structure and software capability. Most initiatives in the latter aspect involve enabling user-friendly operation and highly flexible configurations to allow expansion and integration.
Under efforts to complement these improvements, aesthetics and user interface are likewise upgraded. Companies are incorporating LED or LCD screens to display data. Other releases have voice and text prompts, and intercom functions.
2011年6月1日星期三
Parental warnings to be introduced for online music
Parental warning logos are set to be introduced before songs and music videos on services such as Spotify and YouTube that contain explicit material, following recent concern about the amount of risqué music content too easily available to children online.
Music industry body BPI is to update its 15-year-old Parental Advisory Scheme – which is responsible for the well-known warning symbol appearing on CDs, DVDs and records with strong language, sex or violence – to "bring up to date what happens on the high street to the digital age".
The BPI is implementing an updated set of guidelines to expand the scheme for the logo to appear with songs and videos available to stream or download on UK digital music and music video services.
Most audio and video streaming services – including Google-owned YouTube, Spotify, Napster and Vevo, the music video website founded by Universal Music and Sony Music – do not yet have a uniform parental guidance system, according to the BPI.
"We think it is important for parents to get the same standards of guidance and information online as they get when buying CDs or DVDs on the high street," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI. "We are updating our... scheme for the digital age to ensure that explicit songs and videos are clearly labelled."
Apple's iTunes online store, which has an 80% share of the UK market for legal music downloads, already runs a warning system on its audio and video content.
The music industry has come in for criticism over explicit content recently with Ofcom, which enforces television regulations, calling in music TV broadcasters for a dressing down over several breaches of the broadcasting code.
Music industry body BPI is to update its 15-year-old Parental Advisory Scheme – which is responsible for the well-known warning symbol appearing on CDs, DVDs and records with strong language, sex or violence – to "bring up to date what happens on the high street to the digital age".
The BPI is implementing an updated set of guidelines to expand the scheme for the logo to appear with songs and videos available to stream or download on UK digital music and music video services.
Most audio and video streaming services – including Google-owned YouTube, Spotify, Napster and Vevo, the music video website founded by Universal Music and Sony Music – do not yet have a uniform parental guidance system, according to the BPI.
"We think it is important for parents to get the same standards of guidance and information online as they get when buying CDs or DVDs on the high street," said Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI. "We are updating our... scheme for the digital age to ensure that explicit songs and videos are clearly labelled."
Apple's iTunes online store, which has an 80% share of the UK market for legal music downloads, already runs a warning system on its audio and video content.
The music industry has come in for criticism over explicit content recently with Ofcom, which enforces television regulations, calling in music TV broadcasters for a dressing down over several breaches of the broadcasting code.
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