The document describes BluePrint v.Smart Parking, an intelligent automated parking solution that optimizes site management through visibility of demand, availability, and usage data gathered from an AI-powered system. It discusses how the solution streamlines day-to-day car park logistics and ensures expectations are not only met but exceeded. The solution is provided by ANS and their engagement model aims to successfully deliver business objectives through an agile approach from inception to ongoing operations.
2. Your intelligent, automated
parking solution.
Optimise site management with unrivalled visibility of demand, availability and
usage. By deploying our app, you can refine operations to gain an understanding
of the bottlenecks and challenges your staff and customers face like never
before.
As well as streamlining day-to-day car park logistics, the data gathered through our
intelligent, AI-powered system will ensure you deliver a hands-off, hassle-free solution
that not only delivers on expectations but exceeds them.
Our Engagement Model changes that.
From inception to operations, ANS’ engagement ensures that you can
successfully deliver on your business objectives:
• Agile for the Enterprise
ANS’ unique engagement model utilises Kanban to enable true
agile delivery of your project in a format that legal, procurement
and IT departments can support.
• End-to-End Capability
Expertise across every aspect of the solution ensures the
service is robust, scalable and secure and can withstand
the compliance and governance requirements of the
business.
• Rapid Provisioning
ANS’ approach takes an idea from inception to
production within weeks, allowing the solution to
deliver value faster while reducing overall costs.
• Ongoing Engagement
Ongoing services provide you with a
mechanism to continually evolve the
service whilst providing an enterprise
grade operational support capability.
3. It’s undisputed that platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services are leading the way in cloud enabled
technology. In the age of big data, organisations now have the opportunity to solve real world problems faster, easier and
cheaper than ever before. However, navigating the commercial challenges of user-centric application design and build requires
an approach that meets the needs of both the business and its customers.
ANS’ unique engagement model brings agile delivery to the enterprise under a robust and proven governance structure,
built up across several areas of expertise:
Travel with the times.
Enterprise & Solution
Architecture
Our digital consulting capability
includes TOGAF certified
Enterprise Architects who
develop a robust roadmap and
solution definition.
Network
& Security
Networking experts with over
20 years-experience designing
enterprise grade Wide Area and
Local Area Network solutions
along with multi-layered and next
generation security practices.
DevOps
& Operations
Cloud Operations and Automation
Experts, the certified engineers
are skilled in managing financial
efficiency, stability and capacity
management at extensive scale
utilising next generation automation.
Cloud Native Application
Development
The Product Development Team are
experts in next generation software
development methodologies,
micro-services and modern
development languages such as
NodeJS.
Data Science
& Analytics
Expertise across traditional
enterprise database and
application systems with advanced
data science skill sets that support
development using languages such
as Python and R Services.
Cloud Platform & System
Engineering
MCSE Certified System Engineers
design, develop and automate
Cloud Platforms and services
utilising modern techniques and
tooling such as Infrastructure as
Code, Terraform and Jenkins.
Accurately predict car parking
availability in your local authority.
4. Enterprise & Solution
Architecture Team
Maps the user stories & business requirements to a technical
solution, scoping the engagement and acting as the governing
authority across all solution components to ensure a coherent
and enterprise aligned product and service.
Data Science & Analytics Team
Defines the logic and models behind Artificial Intelligence,
machine learning and analytics that bring the solution to life
whilst ensuring that the most appropriate configuration for the
data ingestion and etl layers are implemented.
Cloud Native Application
Development Team
Develops source code and functionality of the product and its
features along with defining the service map and cloud native
capabilities that will be utilised within the solution across a
microservices based architecture.
Cloud Platform & System
Engineering Team
Develops the detailed designs for the cloud platform, data
platform and cloud services utilising infrastructure as code and
standardised blueprints to guarantee a robust and validated
solution that can be provisioned automatically.
Network & Security Team
Designs the network and security architecture
that underpins the overall solution and enterprise
integration to ensure a robust and secure platform that
conforms to industry standards and any governance or
compliance requirements.
DevOps &
Operations Team
Acting as an extension of your team, the DevOps
function provides continuous development and
optimisation across the platform whilst managing
the ongoing technical operations that support BAU
operation and service stability.
Smart Parking blueprint
Evangelism
Workshops
Discuss the potential user stories and
functionality the service will deliver,
whilst ensuring the business case/
objectives are met and core value
theory and product vision developed.
Engagement
Roadmap
Pre-Discovery
Map the core value theory and
product vision against existing
systems and processes to
understand and define the scope of
the integration and discovery.
Assess, Plan
& Design
Assess the existing systems and
cloud capability, alongside the
development of interactive
prototypes and user testing to
define the release plan and
integration requirements.
Service & Solution
Architecture
Detailed design of the solution
architecture, service map, network
topology and system integration along
with operational capabilities such as
security & technical operations.
Integration &
Platforming
Build and deploy cloud platform
and associated services, including
hybrid integration with existing
systems/network and provision
of DevOps tooling and CI/CD
capability.
Product
Development
Sprint based deployments of
microservices that form the product
in parallel with user acceptance
testing to maximise concurrency and
optimise delivery times.
Data
Science
Development and integration
of the data driven intelligence
using both custom models and
developed API’s to provide the
cognitive services and business
specific context.
Completion
Sprint
Integration and development of any
last minute additions to the product
or service to ensure the best possible
product features are available at
launch.
Ongoing
Operations
Backlog maintenance and future
release planning combined with
ongoing technical operations
that ensure stability and security
whilst optimising efficiency and
performance.
Identity
Management
Data Factory
Event Hubs
Git repository
Stream Analytics
Container Cluster
Machine Learning
Cortana
Business Intelligence
Bespoke Application Network Analytics LayerData Lake Network
Security Network
Management Network
Front End Network
IoT Hub
API Management
Data Lake
IoT Edge
Network
Ingestion Network
Software as a Service
Microsoft Azure
Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB
Event Grid
camera
sensor
ANS Connectivity
Cellular LP WAN Fixed WirelessInternet
End User Device
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