parking
RSS parkingParking Meter Company Creates New Business Model With Wi-Fi
White Paper Photo Violation Technologies wanted to encourage sales of high-tech parking meters to municipal customers and find a cost-effective alternative to cellular technology. The company deployed a Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solution which provides wireless... [08 Jul 2008]
Parking Firm Achieves 99.9 Per Cent Availability With Hosted Communication and Collaboration Server Service
White Paper APCOA Parking (U.K.part of Europe's largest enterprise providing motor vehicle parking services, needed a new reliable and secure communication and collaboration system for 220 users across its three sites. [14 Dec 2006]
Parking Made Easy Via WAP and SMS
White Paper EMT wanted to introduce a Mobile Parking service that would make it easier for clients to pay for their parking as well as making it easier for parking area owners and parking inspectors to monitor the payments of parked cars. [06 Aug 2007]
Parking Access Control Applications
White Paper With security concerns rising in the government and business sectors, parking lot security has been thrust to the top of the priority list with many site security managers. Through the use of TI-RFid technology, security managers can accurately... [04 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Parking fiasco
Comment It is a cold, damp evening in Leicester and I am in the street, standing in line at 17:52 waiting to get a ticket for the parking lot. Like me it is his first time in central Leicester and he has just met the parking machine from Hades. [10 Jan 2006]
Real Options by Spreadsheet: Parking Garage Case Example
White Paper A practical application to the design of a parking garage demonstrates the ease of use and presentation of results of this approach. This paper shows how designers of infrastructure systems can evaluate flexibility in engineering systems in fairly... [20 Sep 2006]
Could mobile phones replace parking meters?
News Drivers in Singapore can now pay parking charges via their mobile phones, thanks to a new service launched by Suntec City, one of the largest shopping malls in the city-state. Prior to leaving Suntec City, users need to call a designated phone... [18 Dec 2002]
Pay-by-text parking comes to York
News Ditch coins for your parking and get out your mobile instead. City of York council has signed up mobile operator O2 and parking payment company Verrus to let drivers pay for their parking via a mobile call or SMS. [05 Sep 2006]
RFID Solutions for Parking Control Systems
White Paper GAO RFID has launched an intelligent RFID parking control management system that integrates RFID technology, automatic control technology and applications software. For customer payment, the RFID tag can be read to debit a pre-pay system or charge... [13 Apr 2007]
Wireless Ad Hoc Discovery of Parking Meters
White Paper Locating a suitable parking spot is a common challenge faced by millions of city-dwellers every day. Wireless ad hoc networking technologies offer a new and efficient means to both simplify the process of parking and find collection as well as... [01 Aug 2007]
An International Airline Reduces Costs of Aircraft Parking and Engine Maintenance Through Smarter Scheduling
White Paper The airline wanted to reduce costs by making the processes of assigning aircraft to parking slots and scheduling engine maintenance more efficient. IBM built a user-friendly application that contains advanced mathematical models and algorithms that... [01 Jul 2008]
Star Parking Tickets for Revenue-Collection Solutions
White Paper Willings Services Ltd, which specialises in vehicle and pedestrian access control solutions for customers including London Transport, National Westminster Bank, Avery Berkel and ICI, has selected the Star Micronics TUP492Z thermal printer as the... [17 Feb 2005]
Car parking gets mobile phone pay and display
News Drivers in Edinburgh have this week been getting to grips with a new pay and display car parking payment system which requires them to use their mobile phones. Users simply call a number to receive an ID code which they key into the parking meter. [03 Nov 2003]
IBM car parking row forces ministers to intervene
News Government ministers have been forced to intervene in a parking row between local residents in Guildford and IBM contractors working for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). [10 Feb 2006]
Wi-fi CCTV in parking tickets drive
News Westminster City Council is busy installing networked security cameras that can recognise parking permits and the number plates of offending vehicles. The system means parking tickets can be issued without a human witnessing the offence in person. [11 Sep 2007]
