Smart Parking 101

What is “smart parking”? It’s all about data: information on how parking spots are used; how much time people spend using them; whether or not the spaces are unused for extended periods of time. You can only make smart decisions if you have the correct information.

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Parking is at once customer experience, a source of revenue, and a cost for the person managing your facility.

There are a lot of reasons why you will want to make your parking spaces smarter. Where should you start? The best way to measure a complex thing is to break it down into individual parts. Let’s start with an overview of the individual parts of parking.

What are the components of a smart parking solution?

Occupancy detection

Payments

Displays, VMS (Video Message Signs) and VMP (Video Message Panels)

Violation control systems

Access control

Smart Parking features

All the individual parts need to be able to communicate with each other.

This can be done with an API (Application Programming Interface).

Learn more about occupancy detection technologies

Where is Parquery within the smart parking field?

Parquery's smart parking solution provides the following features

Parquery monitors any parking area, even when no parking lines are drawn.

Outdoor

Only one camera is needed to monitor a large outdoor parking lot.

Parquery also monitors non-designated parking areas.

No lines

Parking officers receive notifications if vehicles are parked on delivery areas.

Parquery detects vehicles indoor or outdoor.

Garages

Parquery detects vehicles indoor or outdoor.

Parquery detects if reserved parking spots are used.

Reserved

Parquery detects if reserved parking spots are used.

Parquery complements the portfolio of payment companies.

Payment machines

Parquery complements the portfolio of payment companies.

Parquery complements the portfolio of phone payment parking companies.

Payment by phone

Parquery complements the portfolio of phone payment parking companies.

Parquery identifies where are available parking spots in parking lots with barriers.

Parking barriers

Parquery directs drivers to available parking spots in parking lots equipped with barriers.

Parquery identifies if a vehicle is parked but not charging.

Electric vehicles

Parquery identifies if a vehicle is parked but not charging. Real-time alerts are sent to facility managers.

Parking managers receive alerts in the event vehicles are wrongly parked.

Parked on the street

Parking managers receive alerts in the event vehicles are wrongly parked, such as on the street (double parking).

Parquery detects when vehicles are parked on two parking spots.

Parked on two spots

Parquery detects when vehicles are wrongly parked, such as on two parking spots.

Real-time alerts are sent to parking officers in the event vehicles are wrongly parked.

Parked on the sidewalk

Real-time alerts are sent to parking officers in the event vehicles are wrongly parked, e.g. on the sidewalk.

Parking officers receive notifications if vehicles are parked on delivery areas.

Wrongly parked

Parking officers receive notifications if vehicles are parked on specific spots, such as delivery areas.

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