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Compass IoT is a connected vehicle data aggregator that provides vehicle-generated insights to help transport professionals build better, safer, and more resilient cities. The data is used to support use cases across road safety, asset maintenance, network operations, and local area traffic management for local, state and federal governments, research, and private sector organisations.
The Road Intelligence platform is where you can extract all the meaningful insights from our aggregated data, solving complex problems at the click of a button. Simply put, select a road, intersection, or various origin-destinations to understand how drivers are behaving along that route.
Road Intelligence has several tools to help transport professionals in their analysis of the road network. You’ll learn about each of these tools as you complete the course.
Most modern vehicles manufactured from 2019 onwards, have a SIM card embedded at the point of manufacture. This SIM allows an internet connection to other devices or smart sensors. These connections allow the transfer of data between the car and the manufacturer. Vehicles that have this capability are considered connected vehicles.
Any vehicle with an internet connection is considered a connected vehicle - basically a type of smart device.
Compass also ingests data from several different telematics providers.
Connected vehicle data comes from the vehicle itself, giving greater insight. An example, with connected vehicle data you can see if someone was braking before they approached a tube count, but a tube count itself wouldn’t capture this.
Connected vehicle data compliments traditional traffic survey methods, as it is a representation of all vehicles on the road, as not all vehicles are connected. It’s granular, constant and scalable.
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Welcome to the Compass Academy.
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In this video, we're going to cover who Compass is, what the Road Intelligence platform is, the types of data available to you, and what you can expect from the Compass Academy itself.
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So who is Compass?
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Let us introduce ourselves.
Compass is a connected vehicle data aggregator that helps transport professionals - like you - build better, safer, and more resilient cities.
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Now that's quite the mouthful, so let's break it down. What is a connected vehicle?
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A connected vehicle is any vehicle that can connect to and communicate with the internet and other systems, sending and receiving data. These vehicles have different sensors like accelerometers, gyroscopes, GPS, lane assist, Automatic Braking Systems and more, that collect data and send it back to the manufacturer.
Most connected vehicles are from 2019 onwards, but older models can also be connected if they have a telematics device installed.
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So what does data aggregator actually mean?
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Essentially, we gather connected vehicle data from multiple manufacturers and providers, bringing it all together in one place - the Road Intelligence platform. Put simply, we’re the bridge between the raw vehicle data and what you see on your screen.
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So how does this help transport professionals like you?
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Connected vehicles are constantly streaming data. This supports a huge range of use cases. From road safety to asset maintenance, network operations and local area traffic management.
Many uses of Compass are from local, state and federal governments, researchers, and private sector organisations.
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Now, earlier we mentioned the Road Intelligence platform, the place where all the data comes together. So what actually is it?
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Road Intelligence is a web-based platform that gives you insight into how vehicles move and behave across the road network. Behind the scenes, data flows from connected vehicles to the cloud and then into the platform, ready for you to access and analyse.
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But what kind of data can you access through the platform? There's lots available, but here are some of the key types: vehicle type, so if it's a car, Light or Heavy Commercial Vehicle; location; speed and acceleration; braking and steering behaviour; g-forces, which is a measure of acceleration due to gravity; trajectory; travel times; and near-misses, which show where vehicle lost traction with the road.
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For most of these, you can view aggregates like average, median, 15th and 85th percentiles.
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To access this data, you simply select a road, choose your date range, and pick a tool to analyse the data. We'll dive into each tool later in this course, and we'll show you how to apply them to real-life projects in the In-Practice course.
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Now, you might be asking yourself, does this replace traditional traffic studies? Not exactly.
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Road Intelligence doesn't replace traditional surveys like tube counts or number plate surveys. It compliments them. It gives you richer, continuous, and harder to capture insights that can fill the gaps for better data driven decisions. An example of this is a tube count. You can collect a lot of data, but only for the short time the tubes are on the road. Over year, it might only represent 2% of total activity for that one spot, with Road Intelligence, you can capture that same type of data, and more, across a longer date period and multiple areas, letting you uncover seasonal trends and run network wide analysis.
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Now that you know who we are and what road intelligence is, here's what you'll find on the Compass Academy.
It's a collection of courses aimed to help new and seasoned Road Intelligence users. The course you're in now, Platform Fundamentals, guides new users through the basics of the platform and what each button does and how the tools work.
The In-Practice course builds on this knowledge with real-life examples and step-by-step videos of how to replicate this on the platform.
The Advanced course covers our custom Data Science services for complex use cases and APIs for our more experienced users.
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Each course is made up of short chapters, which is made up of different lessons, where you can watch video walkthroughs, read lesson notes, and complete different exercises as you go. And if you ever get stuck, you can reach out to us by clicking the ‘Contact’ button in the top right corner.
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And that's it. In the next video, we'll dive into the platform and show you where to get started. We'll see you there.
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