What is an Automated Parking Guidance System (APGS)?
Picture yourself entering a parking garage.
What is a parking guidance system?
Picture yourself entering a parking garage. As you drive down the aisle, an overhead row of green and red LED lights shows you where the unoccupied spaces are. As a result, you quickly and smoothly find a desirable place to park.
For parkers, this is the core benefit of our patented automated parking guidance system (APGS). For clients, the rich data collected by our camera-based parking management solution helps facility owners and operators to intimately understand the goings-on of their garage and forecast activity and staffing, making facilities more customer-focused, more efficient, and more profitable.
Monitoring space by space, the APGS has become a must-have technology for any business or entity seeking to operate more efficiently, elevate the customer experience, and maximize revenue opportunities.
Core Components of a Automated Parking Guidance System (APGS)
A Parking Guidance System (PGS) comprises several essential components that work together to streamline parking and enhance the overall experience for parkers. Understanding these core components is crucial to appreciating the efficiency and effectiveness of a PGS.
Signs Upon Arrival
Smart sensors with LEDs are the heart of a camera-based parking guidance system. These parking space sensors detect the presence of vehicles and relay this information to the system’s central management software, like our INX, enabling accurate tracking of available and occupied spaces. LED lights on an advanced parking guidance system (PGS) can display a wide range of colors and be customized remotely. For example, blue for an ADA-compliant handicapped space or purple for an electric vehicle space.
Wayfinding Signage
Digital wayfinding signage plays a vital role in directing parkers to available spaces. Positioned strategically at key decision points within the facility, such as at level entry/exit points, the end of the aisle, and in the aisle, these signs display real-time information gathered from single space parking sensors, guiding parkers to the nearest open parking spaces.
Central Management Software
The central management software, like our INX, serves as the brain of the PGS, collecting data from smart sensors and displaying it on wayfinding signage and digital displays. This software also analyzes parking trends, generates reports, and provides valuable insights to optimize parking operations.
Mobile Apps and Connectivity
Modern car parking systems often include mobile apps that allow parkers to check space availability, reserve parking spots, and navigate to their chosen parking space. These apps leverage the connectivity of garage parking sensors and central management software to provide real-time updates to parkers.
Security Features
In addition to guiding parkers with our single space parking sensors, our car parking system incorporates surveillance security features and integrated license plate recognition (LPR) technology. These features enhance safety and security by monitoring activities, identifying potential threats, and protecting the facility against fraudulent claims. By integrating these core components, a parking guidance system (PGS) creates a cohesive and intelligent parking environment that minimizes stress for parkers, optimizes parking space utilization, and enhances overall operational efficiency. These components work in harmony to deliver a superior parking experience.
How Do Parking Guidance Systems Work?
Implementing a parking guidance system offers numerous benefits that can transform the parking experience for both facility operators and parkers. From reducing available parking space search time and congestion to optimizing space utilization and enhancing security, a well-designed PGS brings efficiency, convenience, and peace of mind to parking facilities. In the following section, we’ll delve into the specific advantages that businesses and parkers can gain from adopting a PGS, highlighting how these systems contribute to a smarter, safer, and more user-friendly parking environment.
Elevating the Parking Experience with an Automated Parking Guidance System
The main goal of an automated parking guidance system (APGS) is to reduce stress, uncertainty, and obstacles for drivers when parking. An effective intelligent parking solution makes parking easier for customers, providing a smooth and stress-free experience. Our parking management system helps drivers find open parking spots easily, which reduces traffic congestion in the parking lot and surrounding areas, improving the overall flow of traffic. Our advanced APGS uses a network of camera-based garage parking sensors to track available spaces in real-time. This system works well in garages, surface lots, and rooftop lots alike. The familiar green and red LEDs above the driving lane enable parkers to quickly find an open space, greatly reducing the time needed to park. As a result, parkers reach their destination faster and more relaxed.
Providing Unprecedented Insights to Improve Parking Management
The Park Assist Solution, an automated parking guidance system (APGS), collects detailed data and analytics in INX, our proprietary software. These insights provide valuable information about customer preferences, usage trends, and costs. This empowers you to fine-tune your business strategies and procedures to operate more efficiently and profitably.
Creating Accessible Wayfinding through Smart Parking Solutions
A digital sign at each key decision point helps drivers find their way through the parking facility with ease. Our patented smart-sensor cameras send real-time updates to this network of digital wayfinding signage to quickly direct parkers to open spaces. This network of signage includes:
- Signs upon arrival. For properties with multiple parking areas, a multi-facility sign announces the number of available spaces at each garage or surface lot. This helps drivers decide on the best area to park in, at any given moment, without having to explore them all.
- Secondary signage within a chosen garage. Once a driver has chosen a specific garage, a dedicated sign displays the number of available spaces on each level.
- Directional interior in-aisle pointers. At each level, these signs help drivers to make on-the-spot decisions (left, right, or straight) based on the displayed number of available spaces in each direction.
- Signaling color-coded LEDs on the smart-sensor cameras. Driving toward a green LED light, the driver successfully occupies the only open space at the end of the aisle. The vehicle parks. This is when the smart-sensors close the loop for the wayfinding process. The LED light turns red indicating no available parking spaces nearby.
- Car locator features. Using license plate recognition (LPR) technology, an automated parking guidance system (APGS) can also keep track of parked vehicles throughout the facility. Parkers can quickly locate their vehicle via touchscreen kiosks, a connected parking app, or a finder-enabled pay station.
Equipping Drivers with Real-Time Wayfinding Information
The wayfinding benefits of smart parking solutions, such as an automated parking guidance system (APGS), are further extended with connected cars and mobile apps. This enables parkers to begin their search from wherever they live or work. Then upon arriving to their chosen garage, they can quickly navigate to the level and space that best suits their needs.
Providing an Added Sense of Safety and Security to Parkers
Parkers are anxious about their own personal safety and the security of their property. Traditional parking garage security systems typically only focus on stairwells and elevator lobbies and often lack unobstructed views of key areas where undesirable events can take place: in and between the parking spaces themselves. To provide the best in surveillance, camera-based sensors are installed above the driving lane. Every sensor has one or two HD CMOS cameras, monitoring up to six parking spaces, three on each side. This unique vantage point allows operators to have an unobstructed view of each parking bay – in and between parking spaces. At such a unique vantage point, this provides an unobstructed view of each parking bay, including between vehicles.
Enhancing Parking Facility Surveillance with a Bird’s-Eye Vantage Point
Camera-based automated parking guidance system (APGS) sensors also serve to enhance and augment traditional security systems. Providing both a functional and a visual deterrent to theft, vandalism, and assaults. The Park Assist Solution’s smart parking sensors can increase your surveillance capabilities, capturing streaming HD video whenever motion is detected in or around a space. With an expanded level of security that would otherwise be cost-prohibitive, owners and operators can guard against liabilities due to theft, assaults, and fraudulent claims — while leveraging integrated license plate recognition (LPR) to identify and report any known threat vehicles that enter or exit a facility.
How Does the Park Assist Solution Provide Intelligent Parking Guidance?
The Park Assist Solution by TKH Security has established itself as a global leader in parking guidance and management solutions, offering an unparalleled automated parking guidance system (APGS) that redefines the parking experience. As a comprehensive solution, our APGS not only streamlines the parking process but also enhances operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The Park Assist Solution leverages advanced smart-sensor technology to provide real-time monitoring of parking spaces. This technology ensures accurate detection of available and occupied spaces, enabling parkers to quickly find open spots without circling or delays.
With robust parking management software, the Park Assist Solution collects and analyzes data to provide valuable insights into parking trends and occupancy rates. This data-driven approach empowers facility operators to make informed decisions and optimize parking operations for maximum efficiency.
Our APGS’s state-of-the-art technology caters to the needs of today’s tech-savvy parkers and incorporates a variety of security features to provide peace of mind. In traditional parking facilities, surveillance may only monitor high traffic areas like elevators or stairwells, but with the Park Assist Solution, more parking spaces are monitored than ever before, ensuring a secure environment.
Above all, the team behind the Park Assist Solution is committed to delivering a customer-centric parking experience. By focusing on ease of use, convenience, and efficiency, our APGS ensures that parkers enjoy a stress-free and enjoyable parking experience, which in turn enhances customer satisfaction and loyalty.
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