Valeo and Cisco have signed a coöperation agreement to develop strategic innovations in smart mobility services. Cyber Valet Services, a project resulting from their collaboration, was unveiled at this year’s Viva Technology conference in Paris.
The solution under coöperative development enables vehicles with Valeo’s Park4U® system to park safely and autonomously, i.e., without a driver on board, in connected parkades. Tthe driver simply gets out of his vehicle at the car park entrance and activates the automatic parking system using a smartphone. The vehicle then continues its journey in automatic mode until it has finished parking. In just a few clicks, it can be set in motion again to meet the driver at the designated pick-up point in the parkade.
The vehicle’s sensors, together with the information provided by the equipment installed in the car park, allow the vehicle to perceive its environment with an extremely high level of accuracy and anticipate and calculate its journey at any time up to the completion of the parking maneuver. The vehicle can navigate complex parking facilities in total safety, even multi-story parkades, by processing all of the necessary information with the help of an integrated GPS service and the vehicle’s own sensors.
Indigo, provider of parking services and individual mobility solutions, are first to integrate the new service, which is currently being introduced at the Camille Desmoulins parkade in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
