NEW PRODUCTS
KENALL LED LUMINAIRE EARNS TOP DOE RATING
The TekDek LED parking garage luminaire from Kenall Manufacturing has
earned the highest efficacy rating of all such fixtures within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lighting Facts program. As a member of the DOE’s LED Quality Advocates, Kenall pledges to include a “Lighting Facts Label“ for all its LED luminaires. The label reports product performance results in five areas in accordance with industry standards: luminaire light output, efficacy (lumens per watt), measured power (watts), correlated color temperature and color rendering index.
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WITT TO DEBUT NEW WASTE AND RECYCLING CONTAINERS
Witt Industries was set to unveil several new waste and
recycling containers at the ISSA show Oct. 18-21 in Las Vegas. Two notable introductions include the Granite Family of waste receptacles and a full line-up of high-capacity indoor waste and recycling containers. The new receptacles feature a decorative granite-like finish that blends in with many environments. The textured surface also is designed to keep its new appearance with little maintenance.
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Genetec has launched the AutoVu Sharp VGA,
a new license plate recognition (LPR) camera with on-board processing. It was engineered and designed with a specific application in mind: capturing plates of cars passing in a contained zone (e.g., the entrance of a parking lot). The smaller Sharp VGA is a lower-cost, alternative version of the Sharp XGA, especially in applications where more than one camera is required. Both have on-board analytics processing designed to ensure unsurpassed capture of license plate images.
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GENETEC RELEASES AUTOVU SHARP VGA FOR FIXED APPLICATIONS
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He Used Tow Truck’s Ticket to Get His Car Out of Garage (Posted Sept. 3) A parker in a State College, PA, garage run by Borough Park-
ing Manager Charlie DeBow left his car in the facility for 123 days, running up a nearly $2,000 parking charge. Charlie and his crew knew about the car and had their eye on it.
However, they weren’t expecting the guy to hire a tow truck and have it hauled out of the garage, using the tow truck’s ticket as an exit pass. But an employee spotted the car being towed away and called
the cops. By the time they arrived, the truck … and the car … were gone. Charlie might have the last laugh, however, since the vehicle
owner is now charged with theft of services and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. State College is a small town. My guess is that he will be found. DeBow’s crew might consider an approach many private opera-
tors take. A sign or a note on the ticket that simply reminds the park- er that any car left more than a certain number of days (5, 10, 20, whatever) will be impounded and sold for the parking fees solves this problem, permanently.
Charlie DeBow comments: I don’t agree that a sign solves the problem; in some ways,
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it makes it worse if I have to actually remove the vehicle. Here’s why: The goal is to collect the fees owed. If I play hardball and get into the salvage business, that adds a major headache. Do you think this ended up in the news by accident? It
didn’t; I asked for it to be printed so that every new college student understands that we will catch them and that they can’t beat the system. That story did more than any sign or warning on a ticket. We are just not that aggressive here in State College. Oth-
er than airports, university towns see an unusual amount of vehicles parked in garages for extended periods of times. Right now, I have 33 transient cars that have been parked more than 30 days. I don’t want the hassle of removing cars and going through the headaches of salvaging a car. I want the payment. In two years we have collected over $2,000 in fees six dif-
ferent times, all without any real headache. OnceMommyand Daddy find out that their kids have tried to cheat or that they have racked up thousands in parking fees with the expecta- tion to cheat later, they pay. How do Mommy and Daddy find out?We send the regis-
tered owner of the car a letter giving them a heads-up, that even though they haven’t broken any rules, our pay-on-foot [meters] do not accept payments over $500, so they must visit the parking office to pay before removing the car. Who is the
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