Parking facilities are an essential component of many businesses and public areas, such as airports, hospitals, shopping centers, and stadiums. They are often the first point of contact for customers and visitors, which means that providing a positive experience is crucial for customer satisfaction and retention. One of the primary concerns for parking facility owners…
Parking in New York City can be a challenge, especially for those unfamiliar with the local parking laws. The Scofflaw Patrol is a program designed to enforce the city’s parking laws and ensure that drivers are adhering to the regulations. In this article, we will explore the purpose of the Scofflaw Patrol and why it…
License Plate Recognition (LPR) is a cutting-edge technology that is rapidly gaining popularity in many industries. It is a form of computer vision that enables automatic detection and recognition of vehicle license plates. The technology works by capturing an image of a vehicle’s license plate with a camera and then running the image through software…
As the world evolves and more cars appear on the road, the demand for parking has increased. Mismanagement of parking spaces in any organization causes disorderliness and inefficiency in managing cars in the lot, which can negatively impact the performance and overall profit that the organization should be making. Here is what we mean, assuming…
In our ideal world today, parking violations are an issue of critical importance. These violations are often the end product of a limited number of on-street parking resources that must be fairly distributed among many visitors every day. While rules are instituted to manage these violations, they are still not followed well. Hence, the introduction…
Digitalization was already a growing trend in the world. However, the emergence of COVID-19 has increased the rate of digitalization across several industries, with the parking management industry not being left out. Across the world, in developed countries, almost 60 percent of businesses have gone from an analog process to a digitized one due to…
The need for evolution and adaptation has never been as pressing. The reality of the pandemic has brought several changes to different sectors across the world. The car parking industry is one such sector that the pandemic has hit. Before covid-19, there has been a pressing need for reforms and technological advancement in the parking…
COVID-19 has changed the world in many ways. The drastic and wave-like rise of the virus left (or met?) many unprepared. The world has had to adapt and evolve into the new normal resulting from the virus from governments to businesses and individuals. While some sectors have adapted and risen beyond the adverse effect, others…
The parking management industry is rapidly adopting the use of technology. There has been an increase in what parking solution companies can achieve with their platforms and ease of use. However, with the rise of technology comes increased vulnerability. The need to adopt the best online security practices has never been more immense. And this…
It’s no secret that technological advancements shape businesses across different industries, including the parking industry. The purpose of utilizing new technologies is to improve the parking industry’s performance and deliver a better service experience to customers by offering them comfort and convenience. Besides this factor, there’s also a dire need for system improvement in the…
One of the most significant issues in the 21st century is cybersecurity. Information is a goldmine and access to information has a vast effect online. While businesses are set up to use customer information for building a better product, information criminals are waiting to use it for selfish reasons. Parking management is a business at…
I started this article more then a year ago and then it fell by the wayside. Today the idea of the Parking Industry investing in technology has never been more pressing. As the World moves slowly into some phase of COVID-19 recovery it has become increasingly more important to be able to provide services to…
It is important to understand security vulnerabilities for parking management as you might think that hackers are not interested in your parking management system, but they are. The information you collect on vehicles and individuals is the kind of data that hackers are looking for. While the bad guys might initially intend on hacking to…
OPS-COM links LPR for parking, violation and incident management Carleton Place, ON: Ontario-based Tomahawk Technologies Inc. is excited to announce the release of License Plate Recognition (LPR) module. Now included in its existing parking and security software platform OperationsCommander or (OPS-COM). Most noteworthy of OPS-COM is that it consists of ParkAdmin, IncidentAdmin, and ViolationAdmin. Furthermore, the technology,…
Parking garage allocations for condos Depending on location and size, a condo parking garage can “bring a lot of coin into a building annually” to quote an article in The Cooperator New York recently. The article talks about the choices to make around managing parking garage allocation and facilities for co-op and condo buildings in larger centers. …
