Benefits of Intelligent Parking Management

Everyone has experienced the frustration of finding a parking spot while going for shopping in the crowded shopping malls.

Eliminating the frustration that accompanies the search for a parking space should be the first touchpoint for a business to focus on in today’s rapidly growing urban centers.

In this article, the IT expert, Walter Helwich speaks about an intelligent parking system as the solution to this problem.

What is an Intelligent Parking System? 

Walter Helwich points out that the main goal of an intelligent parking system is to help find and navigate their way to a parking space quickly and easily, with the use of advanced technology. Moreover, this advanced technology helps drivers to find alternative routes in case of traffic congestions. This way, customers are offered greater convenience by these intelligent parking systems.

In Helwich’s opinion, businesses can more attract customers by using automated parking systems, mobile apps, and street-side sensors. Systems that can integrate with other connected systems are given rise by the advent of smart technology. This gives the advantage to the businesses to have a platform that uses relevant information to improve parking management. Another positive side of these sophisticated parking management systems is that they are extremely easy to use. The only thing that customers must do is to download the application to their smartphones.

With the use of this intelligent parking management system, parking operators are enabled to maintain real-time information on parking availability in street-parking locations, vertical parking structures, underground parking areas, and more. All of this information can be accessed by customers through the mobile application on their phones.

How Does the Parking Management System Work? 

As it has been explained by the IT expert, Helwich, a parking management system gathers information by vehicle movement detection or vehicle video tracking. These systems use technologies based either on sensors or on cameras. Sensors can be installed at the access and exit points of each parking area. This helps in tracking incoming and outgoing vehicles. Accurate data about specific vacant parking spots can be obtained by the customer when these sensors are installed at each parking spot. This delivers a hassle-free parking experience.

The benefits of an intelligent parking management system in the shopping malls are manifold. These include saving time, reducing fuel expenses and increasing sales, lowering pollution, reducing traffic snarls. According to Walter Helwich, who is also a member of Owler, the most crucial factor is that it contributes to enriched customer experience and consequently to an improvement in sales and customer loyalty.