TimeTec Smart Parking 12/12: Integrated Parking Guidance System

Most of the modern city dwellers are experiencing the time-waste searching for parking space. According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG) research,
people in Kuala Lumpur spend 25 minutes every day searching for a
parking spot. It usually happens at bustling malls. It is even more
frustrating when a patron circles the entire parking site and finally
finds a “prey” to see it being snatched away by a quicker “predator”. To
solve the problem, TimeTec encourages car park owners to consider
adopting a parking guidance system.

“TimeTec offers two types of Parking Guidance System, the first is Video Parking Guidance System, which deploys License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology; the second is Ultrasonic Parking Guidance System, which uses Ultrasonic wave technology.
Both are meant to guide users to park their cars effortlessly; hence
effectively reduce the search time for parking, increase the parking
utilization rate and mitigate congestion,” explained Teh Hon Seng, CEO
of TimeTec Group.

“Since the Video Parking Guidance System is
using LPR, it’s natural to be using LPR as the main parking entry and
exit method if a carpark owner chooses this guidance system. On the
other hand, for Ultrasonic Parking Guidance System, the carpark owner
can choose various parking entry and exit methods including the LPR.”

Both
Guidance Systems can work standalone, and they can also fully integrate
with the TimeTec Smart Parking Management System to provide better
feature extension.

The comparison between the two parking guidance systems:

Teh
Hon Seng said, “The Video Parking Guidance System has an extra
advantage to solve the shared-carpark environment issue to discern the
parking income for different business entities. For example, when a
shopping mall is sharing the same parking site with a hotel, users can
come in from the hotel’s parking entrance but park at the shopping
mall’s parking lots and leave via the shopping mall’s exit, and vice
versa. As a result, they have difficulty splitting the parking income.
But because the Video Parking Guidance System embedded License Plate
Recognition (LPR) technology, it can identify where a vehicle parks
regardless of its entry and exit points. Moreover, with the ownership of
parking bays clearly defined in the TimeTec Smart Parking Management
System, the parking income is tabulated without any mistake.”

“Furthermore,
shopping malls can also integrate their mall apps to the Parking
Guidance System to extend the Parking Bay Availability Check and Find My
Car features to the user’s smartphones.”

The benefits of the TimeTec Integrated Video Parking Guidance System are summarized as follow:

The simple System Architecture of the TimeTec Video Parking Guidance System:

Please contact Kelvin Lim, Sales Manager, at kelvin.lim@timeteccloud.com or 012-6891180 for product presentation and demonstration appointments. You may also call 03-80709933 general line or write to info@timeteccloud.com for more information.  

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