Integrating with Park Assist
An invaluable partner for third-party providers: Sharing the core intelligence of our platform. Whether you’re a revenue control provider, mobile app developer, wayfinding kiosk manufacturer – or a supplier of other parking services – the integration with Park Assist guidance-and-beyond technology is a capabilities game-changer. Our revolutionary camera based smart-sensor system is further empowered by a suite of sophisticated REST application programming interfaces (APIs). A synergy that provides you with a powerful tool for both business development and product advancement.
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Maximizing the potential of parking guidance. Across a variety of industries, there is growing demand for intelligent parking solutions for guidance, revenue, control and more. With Park Assist, the robust data and streaming video gathered by our camera based smart-sensor system is enriched by the embedded business intelligence of both our core system and our suite of software extensions.
As a result, our multifaceted and scalable
Empowering owners, operators and
parking guidance systems have the core
parkers alike.
business intelligence to deliver new revenue
Our multifaceted guidance-and-beyond
opportunities. Operational efficiencies to
solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate
streamline costs. Expanded levels of security
with existing or planned installations of PARCS
and safety. Along with the brand-building
and other revenue management systems. The
power of an unparalleled end-to-end parker
resulting highly reliable data is shareable via
experience.
our secure APIs to mobile applications, building
Creating mutually beneficial relationships. When you partner with Park Assist, the effect is more than additive. It’s transformative. The idea is to find ways to strengthen our respective products and services – melding them into
management systems, databases for analysis, digital wayfinding systems and public website pages. This shared data also provides potential visitors with the confidence of advance parking availability knowledge.
collaborative solutions that transcend competing
The core Park Assist technology platform can
offerings. Park Assist has a keen ability to
also readily share the diverse and robust data
quickly scope out unique field-proven solutions
gathered by the smart-sensors – i.e. on occupancy,
at the RFP stage – giving our partners a distinct
availability, user trends and preferences, vehicle
edge in the bidding process. In addition, we
identification and more – across a variety of
provide solid documentation and insight
parking guidance system channels. These include
throughout the development process to
digital signage, snippet/widget embeds on
ensure a successful outcome.
a webpage, and mobile apps for a wide range of smart devices.
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Ensuring accurate parking counts with Park Assist. For a parking guidance system to be effective, it is crucial for parking counts to be highly accurate and continually updated. Before Park Assist, the process for verifying system accuracy was both difficult and unfeasible. The only way was to assign people to physically walk the garage, while manually recording the results. A process that is tough enough to execute, never mind to repeat frequently.
The connective power of Park Assist. A valuable gateway to a myriad of client-enabling benefits and parker-centric features, Park Assist can provide game-changing
PARCS and revenue systems.
Mobile app development.
advantages as varied as
Augmenting the foundational revenue management power of PARCS and competing systems, sophisticated Park Assist APIs
Our APIs for next-generation wayfinding and guidance – along with reserved parking and our exclusive Find Your Car™ feature
can add the capability to institute premium and conditional pricing, offer reserved parking, provide both arriving and departing parkers with next-generation guidance, and more.
for returning parkers – can maximize the functionality and marketing appeal of a mobile app. Whether an app is being produced for the general market, custom designed for a brand/company, or being developed with smart dashboards and driverless car readiness in mind.
today’s landscape of parking technology manufacturers and integrators. The specialties we enhance through seamless integration strategies include:
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Our advanced camera based systems exhibit a 99%+ accuracy rate. In a Park Assist installation, the core system regularly gathers a smart-sensor image from every parking space across an entire site at designated times. Using the collected data from this high-speed verification process, Park Assist system analysts regularly provide the facility manager with a detailed report – proving the accuracy of the system in a tangible way.
Wayfinding technology. Through its exclusive Find Your Car™ feature for returning parkers, our Park Finder™ software extension completes the end-to-end parking guidance loop in a way that helps owners to build a brand-conscious following for their parking facilities and multilocation portfolios. This future-proof enhancement is feature-rich with step-by-step walking directions, smart-dashboard guidance to empty or reserved spaces, and readiness for driverless cars.
Parking security systems. It is logistically and economically unfeasible for traditional security systems to monitor the areas in and around the parking bays themselves. Since Park Assist smart-sensor cameras are already watching the bays for occupancy, the addition of our Park Surveillance™ software extension is all that is needed to fully monitor these areas where many undesirable events take place. This helps to deter the intrusion of unwelcome visitors, protect owners against fraudulent theft/ vandalism claims, and provides parkers with added peace of mind.
Macro tracking/analysis. Many facilities already have extensive tracking/analysis platforms to gather and aggregate data for a wide variety of purposes. Our Park Insights™ software extension empowers these platforms to access the actionable intelligence gathered by our camera based smart-sensor parking guidance system. The generated data can also be customized and fine-tuned to meet the needs of specific staff members.
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Examples of our APIs in action. The ability to capture video and rich data is a distinct advantage of the advanced Park Assist platform for parking guidance and facility optimization. But what really sets us apart from the competition is the sophisticated suite of software extensions we continue to refine and augment. Through a unified set of enabling REST APIs, this software suite enables operators and managers to enhance revenues, streamline expenses and bolster the bottom line – across a facility or multiple facilities. While they build a following and their brand by elevating the end-to-end parking guidance experience.
Instituting premium and conditional pricing: With Park SelectRate™ and LPR. Up to now, tiered pricing strategies required expensive gate systems, designated physical areas, and the loss of valuable spaces. With our camera based smart-sensor system and License Plate Recognition (LPR), the addition of our Park SelectRate software extension is all that’s needed. • Upon entry, the arriving parker’s ticket and license-plate number are linked in the revenue control platform. • When the parker pulls into a space, a smart-sensor camera identifies the license plate, while recording entry-time and location data. • When the parker uses a pay-on-foot terminal, the ticket number is used to query the license plate number. • The revenue control system uses the Park SelectRate API to identify vehicle location and apply the appropriate fee.
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Creating a start-to-finish guidance loop: With Park Finder™ and LPR. Park Assist offers an exclusive Find Your Car TM feature to complete the parking guidance loop. This enables a parker to find the exact location of a vehicle upon exit by simply typing in the license plate number on a mobile app – and/or by inserting the parking ticket at a Park Finder enabled pay station.
• Upon entry, the arriving parker’s ticket and license-plate number are linked in the revenue control platform. • When the parker pulls into a space, a smart-sensor camera identifies the license plate, while recording entry-time and location data.
Using a pay station for vehicle location. • When the returning parker accesses a pay-on-foot terminal, the ticket number is translated to access the license plate number in the revenue control system. • The Park Finder software extension is used to identify the vehicle’s location and display maps/routing information. Using a mobile app for vehicle location. • The Park Finder API supplies data to a parking guidance app of choice. Either a custom app built specifically for the parking system/brand, or any number of viable apps currently on the market. • The returning parker enters a license plate number into the mobile parking guidance app. • The app uses the Park Finder API to identify the vehicle’s location and display maps/routing information.
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A next-generation technology platform: Always ready for the next innovation. Empowered by our proprietary portfolio of intelligent software solutions, a Park Assist camera based smart-sensor system has the core business intelligence to deliver new revenue opportunities. Operational efficiencies to streamline costs. Extended levels of security and surveillance. Along with an unparalleled end-to-end parker experience. At Park Assist, business intelligence is more than a concept. Parking technology is about far more than guidance. And we’re always looking for new ways to extend the functionality of our ever-evolving suite of API-driven applications. Contact us to begin a dialogue. We always welcome the opportunity to discuss partnering opportunities with forward thinking third-party providers serving the parking industry. For more information about our integration capabilities – or about any of the software extensions detailed in this brochure – email us at info@parkassist.com.
FINDER
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Our advanced-tech Find Your Car locator plus walking directions and smart-dashboard guidance. TM
S E L E C T- R AT E
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An invaluable ally for creating revenue opportunities: without expensive gate systems or loss of spaces.
SURVEILLANCE
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Expanded security from a unique vantage point: an unobstructed view of the spaces themselves.
RESERVE
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Interfaces with third-party apps to offer reserved parking: without the need for designated areas.
ALERTS
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Policy enforcement via automated alerts and user group control, without fixed barriers.
INSIGHTS
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A visual, intuitive and robust platform for analysis/reporting: easily assimilated into third-party platforms.
COMMAND
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An intuitive dashboard providing in-depth system control to adjust parameters and fine-tune on the fly.
PORTFOLIO
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Unified cloud-based management for multiple parking sites: to leverage consolidated data and insights.
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