This not only saves a lot of time searching for parking spots but also allows you to pre-plan your trip even before leaving home. As the name says, it lets you view the ease of parking at a particular location based on the average availability of parking in the area.Īdditionally, it also shows you a list of nearby parking lots and garages where you can park your vehicle and mark its location. The company is in such early stages that there's no real timeline for the project yet, but given the backing it already has, when results do start rolling out they're bound to be impressive.For starters, Google released the ‘Find Parking’ feature back in August 2017 in selected cities mentioned on the Google blog. The amount of money involved in the enterprise is also unknown, but given the pedigree of investors it'll be a fairly eye-watering sum. According to the press release, "each satellite is equipped with an unprecedented amount of onboard processing power, including more CPU cores than all other commercial satellites combined." Video processing and compressing is power hungry, and satellites have pretty limited power, so it'll be no mean feat figuring out how to bring that all together while keeping quality high and latency low.Īirbus will be in charge of producing the actual satellites, in its Toulouse and Florida facilities, although it's not yet clear how many will be built. Which is just as well, as this will be a costly project. EarthNow already has the backing of Bill Gates, Airbus, SoftBank and Intellectual Ventures.
The service is aimed at "high value enterprise and government" customers, and could provide valuable intelligence on storm monitoring, violent conflict, natural disasters and illegal fishing vessels - to name just a few applications.
The initiative wants to create a constellation of satellites around the Earth, providing video of anywhere on the planet, with a latency of just a single second or two.
But what if, instead of looking at static pictures of your own house, you could explore views of the entire planet, in real time? It sounds ambitious, but that's exactly what space imaging startup EarthNow aims to achieve. Exploring the planet from the comfort of your own home is nothing new - Google Earth has largely cornered the market on that.
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