Parking lot management

 

Parking lots, especially those located in urban centers, have become extremely valuable due to the increase in traffic and number of cars. Naturally, owners or managers want to take the greatest possible advantage of their parking lots in accordance with their business philosophy, whether the issue is the limitation of parking in private parking lots or the optimising of occupancy and fluidity of public parking lots. Nowadays, one must pay to be able to park in most cases; therefore, clients expect the parking lots they use to be adequately arranged and managed as well as such that they provide a certain degree of protection for their cars.

The parking lot management system essentially consists of a central monitoring computer with the ParkV7 program, an entry and exit terminal equipped with a videophone and two barriers with vehicle detectors (induction loops).

 

 

The system is based on the processing of bar-coded tickets. The driver who wishes to park in the parking lot must press the button on the entry terminal to receive a parking ticket. When the ticket is printed out, the barrier rises and the driver may enter the parking lot. When he wishes to leave the parking lot, he pays the parking fee at the cash register (for the time being the fee can be settled only at a cash register managed by a cashier - an automated cash register is being prepared) and receives a payment voucher with a bar code, which is then read by the appropriate reader in the exit terminal, which subsequently opens the barrier and enables the driver to exit.

 

The functions of the entry and exit barriers (opening, being open all the time) can be controlled from the information counter or from the ParkV7 program package, which also displays the position of the barriers.

 

Vehicle detectors (induction loops in the ground in front of the barrier) prevent the barrier from opening when there are no vehicles present and do not allow the barrier to close until the vehicle has safely left the parking lot.

 

There exists the further option of steering the system with subscription cards whose validity can be modified, added and changed, and on which time limitations can be set.

 

The program has an integrated Anti-Pass Back function which prevents multiple vehicles entering using the same subscription card. The entire system is modular and can be additionally extended or modified; transit terminals can be added and it can also be upgraded with a license plate recognition system.