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NEWS COMPANIES AND PEOPLE
Life’s too short…
For people returning from holiday, or shoppers viewing hundreds of cars in a huge retail car park, it is the ultimate nightmare… ‘Where did I leave my car?’ International
company Park Assist believes it has come up with the ideal solution to identifying where a customers left their cars with the PASE-2 parking guidance system (PGS). Te technology
offers the ability to see, identify and count cars down to an individual garage parking space. Richard Joffe, New
York-based managing director, said: ‘Tis system is vastly more compelling than any other product on the market. Tere has been an issue over perceived cost versus benefit, but this system will pay back in a matter of months.’ PASE-2 allows
motorists to locate their car via either an on-site kiosk or through their mobile phone. Each parking bay is covered by a camera, typically one camera to four bays, and this allows the parking operator to monitor usage, identify misuse of disabled parking bays, check on
vehicles that overstay their allotted time – and even helps in the recovery of stolen cars. Joffe explained that
the camera’s presence in a bay does away with the need for ANPR systems at the exit and entry barriers. First to trial the
system in the UK will be Tesco, and Joffe is
excited at the prospect of rolling out PASE-2 to other UK customers. At present Park Assist is considering whether to continue to sell direct to the client or to join with a partner company. ‘Te UK is such a
complex and lucrative market that choosing the correct partner is very important,’ he said.
FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO BARRIERS
Berry Systems, the
manufacturers of crash barriers, safety bollards and security barriers attended Intertraffic in Amsterdam, looking to expand their European distribution network. At the annual exhibition, the UK company featured their range of floor-mounted safety barrier systems for car parks and industrial applications. Fundamentally, there are two types of car park safety barriers – column-mounted and floor-mounted. Each will stop vehicles from breaching the car park perimeter (if correctly specified) and each has its own particular features and benefits. These two main types of barriers then sub- divide into flexible or rigid options.
Flexible barriers are designed to ‘give’
Flex-appeal... one of Berry’s floor-mounted barriers.
WAVE
AND PAY
One of the first installations of the new ‘wave and pay’ contactless card systems is to be installed by Metric Group at the UK’s National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. The installation will include the removal of old pay and display car parking machines and putting in the new wave & pay plus chip & pin payment system.
The 45 new Auras, which will accept standard chip and pin credit cards and debit cards as well the new contactless cards, will be in the National Indoor Arena’s two multi-storey car parks which serve the venue.
on impact absorbing minor knocks without damage to either the barrier or the impacting vehicle. Damage will be sustained in harder impacts but, in the case of the barrier, this will be limited to easily replaceable or repairable components while structural
integrity is maintained. Rigid systems stop vehicles without deflecting but this is largely at the expense of damage to the impacting vehicle and its occupants. Significant impacts will damage the barrier, resulting in either repair or replacement – even if only for cosmetic reasons. Generally repairs to or replacements of rigid systems are less frequent – but more expensive – than flexible systems.
ALL
CHANGE AT PARKEON
Parkeon has promoted Danny Hassett (above) to director of parking in the UK and Ireland. Hassett has
worked for Parkeon since 2006. He replaces Bob Barnes, who is being retained by the company as a consultant on worldwide projects.
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