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Creating Tomorrow’s Smart Parking Experience
According to Business Insider, the number of cars worldwide is set to double by 2040. Due to this increase of car ownership, it might get harder to find parking spots in highly populated areas. Currently, drivers spend an average of 17 hours a year trying to find a parking space in urban areas (it can go up to 107 hours a year for cities like New York). It is also reported that 30% of traffic in a city is usually caused by drivers searching for a parking spot, which increases carbon emissions while wasting big amounts of fuel.
The rise of urbanization will certainly force cities to find new ways to logistically organize their infrastructure to preserve the quality of life of citizens. In the coming years, efficient management of parking lots and other public infrastructure will be at the heart of the mobility challenges that cities will have to overcome. After all, mobility is a major contributor for smart city innovation growth.
Modernizing Mobility Through a Smart Parking Solution
Dimonoff’s parking management solution is an open system that informs users of available spaces in real time and enables them to park faster. Based on a complete IoT platform, this technology is composed by our MPS Sensors that detect the occupancy state of parking spaces using a LiDAR distance measurement. This information is then directly sent to the server via the M1 Gateway which enables wireless communications. Finally, it is the Dimonoff Spatium Parking Management Platform that allows remote monitoring and control of parking spaces.
This solution can be used as a standalone parking management system combined with our status detection sensors or complemented with additional systems such as third-party payment applications, smart directional signs, access barriers, license plate recognition cameras among other connected objects.
Mobility for Indoor Parking
At Dimonoff, we build smart mobility solutions to maximize your revenues and simplify your operations. With a product based on your needs, we can extract value from your data in order to upgrade your business offering. As a parking owner, you want to offer a reliable service in order to enhance your customers’ experience with an intelligent parking management system.
Using parking spot sensors, ceiling or wall mounted, you can make the most of every parking space of your building by detecting all vehicles that enter and leave the parking facility. Thus, you can offer drivers real-time information about available spaces and facilitate their parking process. Hence, with this kind of technology, people will stop losing time searching for a parking spot.
Indoor Parking, Ceiling Mounted (or also wall mounted)
Mobility for Curbside Parking
We developed a connected and automated Mobility Solution for Smart Cities. Using installed sensors on top of parking meters, which can detect two parking spots simultaneously, you can assist drivers in quickly finding vacant parking spaces around your city. Through a mobile app, you could also send real-time parking suggestions to drivers according to their current position. This will not only reduce their parking search time but also can reduce congestion, gas consumption and pollution.
The platform for the manager analyses raw data with machine learning and positioning algorithms making it possible to display understandable and relevant data on a simplified dashboard.
Street Curbside Parking, on Bollards
What Are the Benefits of Smart Parking?
Get Real-time parking occupancy information: Owners and users can get an up-to-date picture of parking space occupancy which ultimately enables better business decisions.
Adjust your prices based on occupancy and schedule: Managing your operations in real time means having the possibility to adapt your parking offering according to all collected data which helps you predict parking demand, peak times, parking habits, etc. maximizing your revenues.
Simplify your parking enforcement: Spend less time monitoring parking lots and get real time notifications when potential parking violations are detected.
Plan maintenance periods: Schedule all your upcoming maintenance using real-time data and available information about your expected occupancy.
Improve your parking security: Using data generated by analytical functions from security cameras, you can prevent, in real and remotely, thefts, hit-and-runs or any other form of vandalism and suspicious activities that could occur inside your establishment.
Provide a better parking experience: Smart parking provides a real opportunity for managers to offer a hassle-free parking experience that will ultimately strengthen the brand image and the relationship between the company and its customers.
Additional Tailor-made Products or Services
In addition to our Mobility Solution, the great scalability of the Spatium Platform opens the door to a wider range of products and services that can be developed according to your needs and objectives. We offer electronic and software development for customized IoT products having expertise in wireless, cloud, embedded and Linux. Here are some examples of what we can do:- Traffic Management on Main Roads:
Provide your citizens with real-time information about traffic & road condition and help them outsmart traffic and find faster and safer routes. We make this type of technology possible by collecting traffic data using installed sensors on roadsides. All this data is then compiled into a dynamic dashboard which can redirect traffic and help reducing congestion and subsequently carbon emissions. - Public Transportation Warning:
Increase passenger satisfaction and retention to public transportation by developing a real-time information solution. Using a wireless detector, LED information displays, a dynamic dashboard and a mobile app, we can provide accurate real-time information about transportation that passengers can rely on. This solution will certainly help to make your transportation system more passenger-oriented and provide a reliable and efficient public service for your citizens. - Objects Displacement Management:
Complimentary to our smart parking solutions, we offer a tracking system to get real time information about location and state of your inventory. Helped by sensors attached to these objects and an interactive map integrated into an application, you can visualize and locate these objects instantaneously facilitating your logistic and inventory management.
The availability of parking spaces in parking garages: a critical issue for parking managers
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Author: Cyriaque Bonamy
Director, Marketing & Communications