Vehicle owners and parking space managers have been forced to look for the safest ways for parking in the face of the pandemic. For this reason, contactless parking has become a top option to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. Parking lots are high-traffic areas for people, and this is why touching anything around…
Contactless Parking During COVID-19 Before the start of the pandemic, people would choose where to park based on factors like location, price, accessibility, etc. Now that the risk of infection is on everyone’s minds, every business or institution that offers paid parking must prioritize something else for their customers: safety from Covid-19. In the field…
Upgrade The Technology While “good parking spaces” might not seem high on the list of services that a hospital or medical center should provide, it can be a crucial part of the overall experience for a patient. It’s common for the parking lots of health institutions to be crowded, with some employees taking the best…
Integrate all necessary tools As one of the major parking suppliers for commuters and monthly parkers in Winnipeg, Manitoba, FNP Parking wants to ensure a seamless user experience especially for their premier tourist destination The Forks. Before they started using the OperationsCommander platform, FNP Parking was managing its 4,000 parking spaces through three different platforms.…
For the last 20 years, Carleton University has used what is now known as the OperationsCommander platform to manage the parking for thousands of students, faculty, and guests. In 2001, the university started using ParkAdmin, a module of OPS-COM, to keep track of permits and streamline enforcement. The savings on administration costs were so significant…
Static and mobile LPR (License Plate Recognition) are fast becoming the most efficient technology improvements for parking. Law enforcement agencies and parking management suppliers have opted to support the new technology that is considered helpful and useful by their staff. LPR is a system used to capture and analyze license plates. It can be used…
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…
Pesky Outstanding Parking Fines – A Headache for Parking Managers. On a quest for information, I allocated some time over the past year and talked to various people who manage parking. What I stumbled across was a common challenge talked about; How do I collect outstanding revenues from tickets? What are others doing to collect these revenues? When managing parking…
Parking an excellent source of revenue “We do not consider parking to be a revenue source.” I read that quote in a blog post from a Director at a University in the Midwest and wondered if I’d read it correctly? It got me thinking; how many other educational organizations have the same outlook about parking…
The secret is out… Organizations can take parking monitoring to a whole new level. All thanks to the pairing of parking and security software solutions and LPR camera system integrations. Proper LPR integration would combine cutting-edge LPR technology with a parking and security management solution creating a more cost-effective and accurate way to monitor parking permits,…
First a bit about the history of OPS-COM… The OperationsCommander (OPS-COM) Parking, Security, and Safety Management software suite originally ParkAdmin parking management. ParkAdmin also had a predecessor though unnamed. That original system we developed somewhere around 2005 was a system for tracking the ownership of parking passes. Not much to it but represented a better way to track…
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…
The move to digitally capture parking data can be an essential tool to evaluate your parking operations and find ways to make improvements that help generate revenue and improve the driver experience. While not everyone looks to parking as a revenue source, they should be evaluating their data to see if they are reaching their…
Nobody likes to see spots in a permitted lot sitting empty as they circle looking for an available space. At least a “Garage full: monthly permit holders only” sign tells us someone is either using those spaces or paying for them. By using a shared parking approach, parking authorities can eliminate the empty spots when…
Most people wouldn’t think parking enforcement and the boot would be a form of customer service, but it is. Those who have outstanding violations may not think so. However, for the rest of us who follow the parking rules by merely finding a spot to pay and paying for it to keep parking accessible and fair.…
