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The 360° vision of connected mobility

Parkki is the multi-technology intelligent and connected parking platform on the market. It is a turnkey solution that connects all parking spaces, supervises them in real time and redistributes information to users. For all car park managers and motorists, it is the reference tool to improve the parking experience. Parkki is the tool compatible with all smart-parking devices, barriers, radar sensors on lighting, video analysis and ground sensors. It is a real time supervision solution for all parking spaces that allows:

• Real-time knowledge of free parking spaces
• Data streaming to control parking spaces
• Continuous improvement adapted to user behaviour.
• Driver guidance (mobile application and staking)

Parkki’s solutions are particularly adapted to the retail sector. Already present in many retail chains, Parkki has been serving for several years the strategic challenge of establishing a link between the outdoors activity and the commercial activity of the retail centres.

By analysing key performance indicators, Parkki responds jointly and thanks to a single platform to the needs of business, data and customer experience. In other words, Parkki allows a strong generation of value by interpreting the Outdoor KPIs (vehicle flows, availability of parking spaces, alerts, car parking, etc.) and the commercial activities thanks to the Indoor key KPIs (people flows, people count, turnover, customer path, frequency of visit, etc.).

Thanks to its 360° platform of customer mobility, Parkki allows retailers to have a unified vision and management, as well as a transverse enrichment of the customer experience and thus to integrate the new consumption modes.

Agnostic multi-technology approach to smart parking

Thanks to its multi-technology vision, the Parkki platform can be interfaced with all sensors technologies and can thus easily group together all the strategic mobility services required by today’s retail parks.

Specific use cases require Wi-Fi, 4G, ZigBee communication technologies, but LoRaWAN in particularly is an efficient way to communicate data for sensors installed on the ground. It is reliable and low-cost, and customers appreciate the open system and not proprietary aspect of this technology.

Using smart parking sensors with LoRaWAN and well-connected control systems allow drivers to easily find free parking spots, avoid congestion and reduce fuel consumption and pollution. And this IoT solution can be implemented with a fast infrastructure setup without transforming the entire area into a construction site.

LoRa-enabled parking sensors can be deployed throughout urban areas, enabling parking operators to capture and analyse occupancy data in real-time. Connected road signs and online applications can display information about available parking spots. Actility provides the ideal IoT connectivity platform for cities, public and private parking operators.

LoRaWAN® is widely used wireless protocol that allows battery-operated devices to communicate with IoT applications via long-range, wireless connections, allowing longer battery life, thus lowering the cost of device ownership. LoRaWAN® is especially useful in large-scale deployments because of its availability, cost, and reach, due to its use of unlicensed spectrum, the availability of standardised, low-cost modules with long battery life.

Actility, global provider in Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) industrial-grade connectivity solutions, provides the LoRaWAN® network server and a highly reliable and advanced IoT platform for network management, ThingPark™, already powering the vast majority (over 50) of public nationwide LoRaWAN® deployments and hundreds of companies worldwide.