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NEWS FEATURE






                                           Facilitating



                                           Smart Parking Space








                                               n the wake of          “There is a lot of data   The daunting issue facing
                                               rapid urbanization,   generated  from different   people today is not the
                                               infrastructure related   intelligent systems for   dearth of sufficient parking
                                               problems particularly   parking. The value lies in   space, but lack of awareness
                                           Iparking conundrums       making sense of this data   of available parking spots
                                           are mounting today. In this   through advanced analytics   in the vicinity. ParkUpNow
                                           day and age, developed    and converting it into   comes to fore with a great
                                           nations  embrace  cutting-  business value and insights   feature of convenience to
                                           edge technology innovations   to streamline routine   customers for pre-booking
                                           such as driverless cars and   tasks and processes”, said    their parking lots even
                                           connected vehicles along   Ruchir Shah, Founder and   before they start their
                                           with supporting technologies   CEO, ParkUpNow      journey. Pre-booked parking
                                           like smart signals, smart   ParkUpNow’s   mobile   through mobile phones
                                           navigation, and smart     application, aids customers   with  cashless  transactions
                                           parking. While pursuing   to pre-book parking spots   combined with Integration
                                           this trend, developing    through their mobile phones   of cashless modes of
                                           economies in Asia lookout   with cashless transactions.   payment, a tamper-proof
                                           for intelligent technology   It is an embedded mesh of   validation mechanism, and
                                           solutions that can help   software and hardware that   strong security features,
                                           compensate the inadequate   works in collaboration to   makes it a holistic solution.
                                           supply of parking spaces.   achieve desired operational   Currently, ParkUpNow
                                           In the era of smartphones,   efficiency and reduce both   has been the official smart
                                           they necessitate mobile apps   time and effort involved   parking partner for major
                                           that can facilitate hassle-free   in validation and parking   music events and concerts
                                           parking.                  management.              such as Sunburn Festival
                                             This is where Mumbai     “Our product can be     2017 held in Pune. With
                                           headquartered ParkUpNow   deployed in B2C modes such   an experience of handling
                                           makes a mark. ParkUpNow   as malls, movie theaters, and   10000+ vehicles in a short
                                           is an end-to-end solution   events, as well as B2B2C   time span during these
                                           provider in the intelligent   spaces like commercial real   events, ParkUpNow has
                                           parking space. A unique   estate projects and smart   developed  a  unique
                                           amalgamation of hardware   cities. As every project has   proposition  towards
                                           including  RFID   tags,   different requirements, we   customer  experience.
                                           boom barriers, automatic   have built  robust  models   At Present, ParkUpNow
                                           number plate recognition   with inherent  flexibility to   envisages to outspread in
                                           technology  and  sensors,   customize solutions for   the parking technology
                                           coupled with back-end     addressing customers’ needs.   landscape.  With  the
                                           digitization and analytics   Our  solution  is  equipment,   availability of the latest
                                           to identify metrics such as   industry and technology   sensor-based technology, it
                                           occupancy, availability and   agnostic as we do not   concentrates on facilitating
                                           future capacity planning, is   believe in a one solution fits   smart parking spaces within
                                           their forte.              all approach”, said Shah.  smart cities




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