ParkaLot

ParkaLot is an integrated platform that belongs in the family of products from OTS for Smart Cities. It concerns smart parking management, outdoors or indoors and is designed to provide a structural tool in the evolution of the smart cities solutions. ParkaLot may function as an independent vertical solution in a wider spectrum of smart cities solutions (silo- solution smart mobility) or as part of a fully unified strategic plan of smart cities.

The suggested parking spaces management system:

• Helps the driver to easily find a parking space through a mobile application
• Allows the organisation to efficiently control the offered parking spaces, and at the same time create ideal driving conditions by decongesting the main arterial roads in a city.

The smart parking system comprises of the equipment, a 360 degrees software system with a series of a sub-systems and telecommunication equipment.

ParkaLot, from OTS, as an innovative and complete solution for the management of parking spaces, can receive information from any technological equipment(sensors that are embedded in the asphalt or are adhered to it, sensors on poles, magnetic tapes, cameras etc) through a massive range of communication protocols (Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa, LoraWAN, ZigBee, ΝarrowΒand-ΙοΤ).  A series of subsystems handles the information once they are received.

Central Management Platform

A central management tool controls the infrastructure. The organisation thus ensures a thorough supervising update in one screen, of all the parking spaces but also each parking space separately.

Digital Signages 

ParkaLot is harmoniously working with Digital Signages and digital kiosks in case of the driver not wishing to pay through the mobile app

Advantages

One of the biggest problems of a modern society and big cities is the traffic congestion and pollution that is caused partly from the pointless vehicle motion. Drivers spend 15-30 more minutes behind the wheel in order to find a parking space for their vehicle. A result of this behavior is polluted atmosphere in the cities, especially if someone counts in the consumption of fuel. Many hours that could be spent more usefully are lost.

ParkaLot majorly contributes to many of the above issues while at the same time helps the automation of the parking supervision and to the significantly reduce the patrols of the personnel that perform the parking supervision. It also brings an increase in revenue for the organisation that handles the parking spaces.

Application

ParkaLot is the first large scale application in Greece for parking. The city of Rethymno, in Crete, Greece has got a total of nearly 600 parking spaces that are used through the ParkaLot system.

A pilot application of it took place in the city of Chalkida in Greece, along with accredited partners in it: OTE communications, CISCO, Kafkas. At the same time, one of the first Narrow Band IoT implementations in Europe, and the first in Greece in the city of Patra in Greece, with the contribution of the companies OTE, Huawei, OTS and Kafkas.

ParkaLot has been awarded with a Gold Award, in the Best City Awards in Greece, in the section of Mobility and Transport.

Ask for a detailed presentation of the ParkaLot application:  sales@ots.gr