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 the owners or managers want to take the greatest advantage possible of their parking lots in accordance with their business philosophy, whether the issue is limitation of parking in private parking lots or optimal occupancy and fluidity of public parking lots. Nowadays one must pay to be able to park in most of the cases, therefore the clients expect that the parking lots they use are adequately arranged and managed as well as provide a certain degree of protection of 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 processing the bar code 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 proceed to 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 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.

Optionally, it is possible to steer the system with subscription cards whose validity can be modified, added and changed, time limitations can be set ...

 

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