1. envision smarter parking
Andrea Fossati, CEO - andrea@parquery.com
February 12th
2018
Switzerland : Corporate & University Roles in
Growing National Startup Ecosystems
Stanford School of
Engineering

2. The problem
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FRUSTRATING search for free spots
Expensive to measure occupancy
Inefficient to enforce

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Input
Customers send images
captured by on-site cameras
to our SaaS platform
What we do
We use computer vision and
deep learning algorithms to
process the images
Output
Customer API access to parking
information for
➢ Real-time & forecasted availability
➢ Smart parking apps
➢ Planning and enforcement tools
Parquery uses computer vision and deep learning algorithms to determine parking occupancy and duration from
image feeds to enable smart parking services.
Parquery’s Technology
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4. How does it look like?
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5. Benefits for our customers
Monitoring and statistics
Overview of parking area for enforcement
Grande Place, Vevey (VD)
➢ 422 spots monitored with only 2 standard cameras
➢ Real-time occupancy and exact duration of each parking spot
➢ Data-crossing between payment data and parking duration data optimizes enforcement
Information display
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Parquery in the Swiss startup ecosystem
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➢ Tight connection with ETHZ
○ Easy access to grad / postgrad students
○ Credibility (especially at a national level)
○ Incubation and grants
➢ High quality of life
○ Happy employees
○ Attractive for international talent
○ Good work-life balance
➢ Risk-averse country
○ Hard to raise funds
○ Few non-competing investors
○ Fear to fail
➢ Expensive to startup a company
○ High salaries compared to rest of EU
○ Costly services (lawyer, accountant, …)

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Our multi-cultural team
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Co-Founder & CEO Co-Founder & CTO
Lead Engineer
Head of Business
Development
Patrik ZumsteinDr. Andrea Fossati
PhD EPFL
Dr. Angela Yao
PhD ETH Zürich
Dr. Marko Ristin
PhD ETH Zürich
Prof. Dr. Luc van Gool
ETH Zürich
Stefan Forster
Hectronic
Scientific Advisor
Parking Industry AdvisorMobility Expert
Dr. Satya-Lekh Proag
PhD Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Altin Arapi
Sales Manager
3 SW Engineers and 3 Interns (IT & Marketing) complement the core team
Obtained several achievements and grants:
➢ ETH Pioneer Fellowship and ERC PoC
Grant (total 330k CHF)
➢ KTI Research Grant from CH
Government (310k CHF)

8. Parquery in a nutshell
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Freight transport
Bus depot
Smart Parking
Traffic Management
Gas Stations
Passenger counting
Parquery AG
Technoparkstrasse 1,
8005 Zürich
Switzerland
Dr. Andrea Fossati
CEO
+41 76 234 2948
info@parquery.com
www.parquery.com
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