SNUG Workshop 7 & 8 November 2013 Deryk Whyte, Director, AraFlow Ltd

SNUG Workshop7 & 8 November 2013

Deryk Whyte, Director, AraFlow Ltd

SNUG Workshop7th November 2013

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Company overview

Current NZ initiatives

Influential world trends

What can we expect to see?


• AraFlow Ltd– A New Zealand based consultancy, offering

• professional Intelligent Transport Systems consultancy services

– Other ITS services, including

• Traffic data monitoring

• Traffic management infrastructure and software

• Traveller information, delivered on web, in-vehicle

AraFlow – who are we?

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• Strategic partnership with HMI Technologies Ltd, a New Zealand based ITS technology manufacturer

• Provides AraFlow with exclusive rights to– use HMI developed ITS technology, communications and

software products

• “Out of the box” services offered to clients

• AraFlow does not sell ITS technologies or software in the traditional way, we sell services

AraFlow – who are we?

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• We design, implement and deliver complete turnkey ITS services, incorporating infrastructure, such as– Variable message signs/lane control signs

– CCTV with or without video detection/analytics

– Traffic flow monitoring and sensing equipment

– Co-operative ITS

– Associated traffic management control software

• All our data, software and infrastructure services are offered on a variety of lease options

Our business concept

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• The AraFlow/HMI group of companies is unique, we have– Research capability, aligned with Auckland University

– Software and hardware design expertise

– Our own electronics and technology manufacturing facility

– Professional services delivery know-how

• This enables us to

– Have a rapid path from research through design to manufacture

– Close control over manufacturing quality and costs

– Enabling us to develop smart cost effective solutions, end to end

– Passing cost savings directly to our customers

Leasing – how can we do that?

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• We continually invest in improving hardware and software performance• Our service delivery then keeps pace with

technology advances

• All maintenance responsibilities are ours with all costs included in lease agreements

• Lease costs fixed over duration of agreements

• Whole of life costs (over 5 years) 20% to 30% less than traditional procurement/infrastructure ownership models

Advantages of a services based business model

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Services founded on good data collection


• Collect unique Mac addresses from everyday devices– Using Bluetooth

• Data is collected anonymously– Utilise a hashing algorithm– Fully compliant with NZ, Australian and International

privacy laws

All services founded on good data collection

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• Our hashing algorithm is one way, so we never know or retain:– Telephone numbers– Call details– SMS messages etc.

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Privacy?


We read Mac addresses using small roadside sensors

Sending these to our servers using GPRS for matching, quality checking, data cleaning and analysis

Provide data services to our clients via a web portal/interface

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How


What?We offer a range of reporting services:

• Calculated Speeds

• Journey Times

•Real time data services

•Incident Detection

• Real time data services include:– Real time threshold alerts

– Real time data feeds, customised for use in traffic management and traveller information applications

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Our business concept• Our preferred business model, particularly for our

traffic data services, is based on AraFlow retaining commercial rights to all raw data, allowing us to:

– Re-package and sell this data to other customers– Ownership of all processed information is the client’s

• Customers can buy traffic monitoring data services when and where required

– We have no minimum requirements for our standard reporting services, in terms of:

•time periods;•the number of links data services are supplied for; or •geographic coverage

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Company overview





• A partnership between the Ministry, HMI and AraFlow

• Co-operative ITS trial on SH2 between Auckland and Tauranga,(160km route length)

• Investigating if provision of real time traffic data to commercial transport operators can improve freight transport efficiency

• All technology, data, software and research services leased to the Ministry for the duration of the trial

Ministry of Transport Co-operative ITS Trial

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Commercial in Confidence

• Bluetooth network monitoring installed

• Full trial of C-ITS travel information services commenced in early October

• Safety critical message services to commence in December

• Final reporting due in April 2014

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Progress


MoT Co-operative ITS Trial

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• Co-operative ITS services to be delivered include traffic information and safety (curve warnings) from RSUs to OBUs in vehicles

• Implementing the 802.11p standard over 5.9GHz• Wireless Access for Vehicular Environment

(WAVE) – safety critical messaging• Cellular Access for Land Mobiles (CALM)

communications protocol – traffic information

• Exploring implementation of European, US and Asian co-operative ITS standards, all in a NZ context



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• Safety critical messaging delivered using Cohda Wireless modems

• Traffic information delivered to in-vehicle tablets – running our own traffic information application



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• Journey time information services on SH1 and SH76 Christchurch

• For the Christchurch Transport Operations Centre (CTOC)

• Providing journey times on 3 leased variable message signs

• Supplying congestion mapping services and journey time information to Transport for Christchurch web site

• Traffic data collected from 30 bluetooth sensors over 37km of state highways

NZTA/CCC Travel Time System

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NZTA/CCC Objectives

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• Required early progress – 12 week implementation, go live November 2013

• Real time services to the road user – allowing them to make smarter choices

• Enhanced real time operational tools for CTOC – incident management capability – detection and VMS control

• Management reporting – CTOC managers can extract historic network data in a flexible way


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Company overview





We have become a social networking culture, and this behaviour is permeating every area of our lives. Even solo activities like using search engines is becoming socialized, as is shopping, travel, education and even work.

Source getelastic.com, 2012


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Social Media Revolution by Erik Qualman 2012Social Media Revolution by Erik Qualman 2012


Imagine if all the objects in the world had all the information that they needed to function optimally. Buildings could adjust themselves according to the temperature. Ovens could cook things for exactly the right time. The handles of umbrellas would glow when it was about to rain.

Source The Economist

It will link – apart from individual people – millions of devices, such as sensors, that will enable us to manage our environment, infrastructure, and our society as a whole much more efficiently.

Source: InternetMobile & Wireless Broadband and Media

Smart Infrastructure, 2011


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Toyota has announced the development and upcoming launch in Japan of the ‘Big Data Traffic Information Service’, which is a new kind of traffic-information service…to aid traffic flow improvement, provide map information services, and assist disaster relief measures.

Source: Traffic Technology International, May 2013

Today, there are more devices tapping into the Internet than people on Earth to use them - Source: RFID Journal, October 2014


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Smart Transport

A Smarter Planet - Australia/New Zealand IBM Social MediaA Smarter Planet - Australia/New Zealand IBM Social Media


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Company overview





CVHS will reduce accidents and improve the performance and efficiency of existing road infrastructure while reducing fuel use, emissions and congestion.


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Cooperative Vehicle Highway Systems Cooperative Vehicle Highway Systems

“Road Users of the future will have access to all necessary information at all times, irrespective of mode, in order to provide informed travel choice and options as the journey unfolds.”

Source: www.transportvisions.org.uk

Connected vehicles are the third-fastest growing technological device, behind smartphones and tablets.

Source: Toyota Motor Sales USA 2012



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Autonomous CarAutonomous Car

Cars that drive by themselves can aid the handicapped, reduce congestion and remove human error thus improving road safety. Driverless trucks, operating as road trains, can gain up to 20% fuel savings due to reduced air drag.

In 2010 Google built a fleet of 7 self-driving cars collectively traversing 140,000 miles.

In 2010 Google built a fleet of 7 self-driving cars collectively traversing 140,000 miles.

Just about every traditional car maker is now developing its own self driving model.

Just about every traditional car maker is now developing its own self driving model.


This is coming!

Safe Road Trains for the Environment SARTRE EU project, Volvo 2012Safe Road Trains for the Environment SARTRE EU project, Volvo 2012


Thank you.

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AraFlow Real Time Traffic Monitoring Services

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SNUG Workshop 7 & 8 November 2013 Deryk Whyte, Director, AraFlow Ltd