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PARKING

Parking Management and

Zero Contact Parking

Zero-Contact Parking is going to be the new normal.
Parking will drastically change to morph into
something we have previously not seen before and

apart from addressing social distancing concerns, it
comes with tremendous benefits for parking owners as
well as commuters, states Vishal Mehra, VP & Director,
iRAM Technologies.

he onset of Covid-19 has efficient element to fully transform productivity. On the other hand,
brought about a shift in the parking management and operations. through customized mobile applications
way most businesses function It can be easily deployed in Malls, commuters will enjoy advance parking
today. Suddenly there are Commercial Buildings, Hospitals, availability information, pre-reserved
Timplications for how best to Railway Stations, Schools, Residential parking slots, digital payments and
manage and operate car parks in India. Localities, Metro Parking’s etc. without other advanced features like AI enabled
As parking operations management in doing away with existing access control express entry & exit and personalized
India is predominantly attendant based hardware or existing layout plans. Zero-
with limited technology intervention, Contact parking is powered through welcome & exit experience. Zero –
there are various touch points in the an exhaustive cloud delivered Parking Contact parking will help us save on
whole transaction from entry to exit. Management & Guidance System so carbon footprints by reducing entry and
Apart from that exchange of paper parking owners need not to invest in exit timing significantly.
tickets and currency could be one big new software which will be available
concern for commuters. As India opens on pay as you go basis. This reduces
up gradually, it is indicated that there deployment timelines. Back end GUI
will be an increase in parking occupancy and commuter mobile application
as people may prefer to commute by can be customized in no time. The
private vehicles. This trend may continue platform providers are going to be
for some time. hardware (boom barriers, cameras,
While business and organisations are MPOS, QR Code scanners etc.)
preparing themselves on various fronts agnostic and will either integrate
like sanitisation, temperature monitoring, with existing hardware or parking
it becomes an utmost responsibility of owners can buy an open architecture
parking owners to build and provide hardware on their own.
hands free parking experience.
Parking owners will see happy
Amidst this, Zero-contact Cloud commuters, new value, reduced
Parking solutions can pave as an management & increased

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