Meeting demand: How does your parking system cope with a sudden influx of customers?
Across the year car parks can quickly become overloaded – a combination of seasonal events, football matches or even gig-goers put extra pressure on car parks.
The winter months can also result in customers seeking out undercover parking, they’re feeling lazy so want to be as near to their destination as quickly as possible! However, car parks that are undercover and near to the shops are generally in short supply so can quickly become overwhelmed.
Typical problems include:
- Queues to get in.
- Queues at payment machines.
- Customer who forgets to pay and causes a queue at the barrier.
- Overloaded equipment/technical issues.
When car parks adopt ANPRIoT technology, these issues are negated due to advanced software capabilities and state-of-the-art equipment.
Queues to get in – not a problem. Advanced Vehicle Recognition means customers are recognised quickly and can move into the car park seamlessly to park their vehicle.
Queues at payment machines – not usually. With ANPRIoT customers have a number of options when it comes to payment. What’s more, having the flexibility to modify pricing structures can help operators to increase profitability and maximise space utilisation based on events or timings.
Customer who forgets to pay and causes a queue at barrier – won’t happen. The combination of our technologies along with our enforcement packages means that the customer will be able to leave and we’ll just collect payment later.
Overloaded equipment/technical issues – won’t cause a problem. At ANPRIoT every element of our software and equipment is rigorously tested in our in-house lab. Once we’re completely happy it becomes part of the ANPRIoT system and because ANPRIoT is cloud-native (built IN the cloud) even if something does fail, it can usually be fixed quickly with no downtime to operators or users.
Additionally, the ANPRIoT system dynamically scales up (and down) to meet demand. Operators don’t need to choose between a creaky system that struggles with peak demand and an oversized system that costs a fortune.
So, with ANPRIoT, a sudden influx of customers just isn’t an issue, and they can just get on with their day!