How Technology Impacts Your Bottom Line

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How Technology Impacts YourBottom Line

• Space Sensing Solutions in Parking
• Duke Hanson and Richard Joffe
• October 7, 2009

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Agenda

• What is Space Sensing?
• What are the Challenges?
• What are the Value Propositions?
• Who are Technology Providers (the Players)?
• What is the Future of this Technology?

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What is Space Sensing?

• The ability to detect and report the presence (or
  absence) of a vehicle in a parking space
• A range of technologies have been trialed by
  several companies to develop a solution to
  replace the trusted loop

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What are the Challenges?

• Detection accuracy
• eliminate false positives / negatives
• accurately detect a range of vehicle sizes and
  types
• Latency
• ability to quickly identify space transitions
• filter out unwanted vehicle movements
• Low Power
• battery powered
• wireless connectivity
• low maintenance over long operating life
  (typically gt 5 years)
• Low Cost
• up-front sensor cost
• installation costs
• operating cost
• Compatibility with road and curb infrastructure
  after installation
• aesthetics
• regulatory requirements
• operational requirements (street sweeping, snow
  plowing etc)

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Space Sensing Value - Meters

• Sensing vehicle presence / absence improves the
  efficiency of an on-street parking operation
• Local at-meter features
• Preventing meter feeding
• Zeroing out unused time
• Although sensing technology enables this
  at-meter functionality, there are more
  politically acceptable ways to maximize the
  value from a parking space
• Parking policy support
• Occupancy characteristics
• Compliance trends
• Empirical data can be used to support recommended
  changes to parking hours, rates and maximum stay
  durations
• Appropriate fee structures directly influence
  motorist parking and payment behavior to support
  City parking and traffic management objectives

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Space Sensing Value - Integration

• When integrated with other business applications,
  the value of space sensing is significantly
  increased
• Demand-based or dynamic pricing models may be
  applied
• Space sensors allow rates and tariffs to be
  applied at different times of the day or
  day-of-the-week based upon demand profile
• Wirelessly enabled meters can be remotely
  programmed with new rates as usage
  characteristics change
• Enforcement efficiencies improve violation
  capture rates
• Historical trends enables targeted enforcement
• Real-time identification of non-compliant
  vehicles (not just expired spaces)
• Optimizing the utility of this data is the
  challenge
• Congestion management motorist convenience
• Reduced congestion achieved through appropriate
  fee structures
• Intelligent signage and driver guidance systems
  route motorists to vacant parking (way finding)

Federal funding has driven a number of recent
sensing programs
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Vehicle Sensing Options

• Several different deployment topologies
  available, depending upon the City specific
  requirements
• Installation method
• Surface mounted
• Subterranean install flush or below the roadway
• Wireless data upload
• Overlay wireless network for sensors and other
  end-points
• Integrated to share parking meter/pay station
  communications
• Periodic or real-time data
• Off-line reporting data is captured locally and
  collected periodically for post-processing and
  analysis
• Real-time current status is reported wirelessly
  to a central server
• Processing of the real-time data and distribution
  of the information to other applications (e.g.
  enforcement) is possible
• Typically wireless systems also allow sensors to
  be updated remotely

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Who are the Players ?

• A number of proven players remain in the
  industry
• ParkAssist
• IPS Group
• Streetline
• StreetSmart
• Duncan Solutions
• (and other meter companies)

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The Park Assist Platform

• Head office in NY with regional offices
  throughout the US, Australia and UK
• Develop manufacture an end-to-end sensor
  network
• gt30,000 sensors deployed with private and public
  sector clients globally (Westfield, Tesco, Bovis
  Lend Lease, City of Seattle etc)

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Park Assist Features

• Deployments across 3 continents
• Communication on Wi-Fi network for added
  stability
• Multiple detection modalities leads to the only
  sensor that is guaranteed to not issue a parking
  ticket incorrectly
• gt99 accuracy AND gt99 data collection
  integrity
• gt5 years battery life under normal use
• IP rated with 5 tone direct load weight
  tolerance
• Embedded in surface, or ground mounted

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IPS Group

• IPS Group, Inc. is based in San Diego, CA
• IPS has been designing and selling Parking
  Meters, Pay Phone Products, Wireless Cellular
  Products, and Management Software Systems for
  over 15 years to customers all over the world.
• Most known for recent launch of the patented
  credit card enabled, solar powered single-space
  parking meter web-based management system

Credit Card Enabled Single-Space Meter
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IPS Group

• The Sensor Technology
• Wireless detection technology
• Communicates through IPS meter via wireless
  connection to web-based management system
• No additional infrastructure required
• Installs above ground surface or flush with road
  surface depending on climate
• Primary Benefits
• Calculate paid vs. actual occupancy to optimize
  enforcement
• Reset meter when vehicle leaves space
• Control parking rates and reduce congestion
  through active management

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Streetline
safe streets
garages
signs

• City infrastructure management
• Hardware Ultra-low power networked sensors
• Software Apps to manage parking and traffic
• An operating system for the City

traffic
parking
Energy lighting
Management

• Workforce Management
• Public Information
• Automation
• Payment Audit

Data Center
Networks
Physical Things
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Streetline Parking and Traffic
Streetline Servers
Partner Servers
Ultra Low Power Mesh Network
Services
Targeted Enforcement
Parking Availability Traffic
Market-Based Pricing
Congestion Management
Workforce Management
Audit Maintenance
Streetline Confidential
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Parking and Traffic Endpoints

• Parking Sensor
• Vehicle arrivals, departures, transitions
• 5 -10 year battery life (two AA)

• Traffic Sensor
• Vehicle count, speed, direction,
• and length from a single sensor
• Direction sensing from a single sensor in
• low speed applications (i.e. garage/lot
  counts)
• 5-10 year battery life (two AA)

• Surface or Embedded
• Installation for Sensors
• 60 second install on surface
• 3 minute install for embedded
• No core drilling required

Streetline Confidential
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Key Clients / Engagements

• Deployments
• San Francisco
• Los Angeles (pictured)
• Pilots Q409
• Culver City
• Others
• Our networks operate in public ISM bands
• 900 MHz (Americas, Australia, Israel)
• 2.4 GHz product coming soon for EMEA

Streetline Confidential
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StreetSmart Technology LLC

• A leader in the field of remote asset management
• Helping municipalities monitor and maintain their
  geographically distributed assets 
• Offers enhanced parking meter functionality,
  which
• Increases parking meter revenues
• Increases parking space turnover
• Offers huge green benefits
• Minimizes parking maintenance, collection, and
  enforcement workload

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Technology

• Employs state-of-the-art sensors and radio
  telemetry, linked to a 365/24/7 Network
  Operations Center
• Web Portal command interface enables the user to
  maximize revenues, customer service, and asset
  uptimes
• Provides real time occupancy, compliance,
  maintenance and collections data which enables
  the optimization of field operations

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Current Users

• Decatur, GA
• Reading, PA
• Florida International University
• Central Parking Atlanta, GA
• Central Houston, TX
• Jerusalem, Israel
• Bene Braq, Israel

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Duncan Solutions
Duncan Solutions
Partner Solutions
Parking Enforcement Products and Technologies
Vehicle Sensors
Parking Management Information Systems
AutoTRAX AutoFIELD
Self-Release Boots
Single- Multi-Space Meters
AutoISSUE
License Plate Recognition
AutoPROCESS AutoCOLLECTDMV Data Services
Enforcement MaintenanceHandhelds
Integration of space sensing data adds value to
Duncan applications
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Integrated Parking Management

• Duncan and other meter companies offer
  integrated, third-party space sensing technology
  as one element of a turnkey solution
• Real-time sensor information is deployed to
  different applications across
• the enterprise

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Space Sensing what does the future hold ?

• Further cost reductions and volumes increase
• Up-front sensor cost and installation
• Improved sensor life and reduced operating costs
• Improved accuracy and reliability
• Sensing
• Wireless networks
• Growth of sensing and wireless networks
• Combined on-street and off-street networks
• Sensing of single space, pay-station, no-parking
  and non-metered spaces
• Additional sensors, meters and other end-points
  will be deployed on wireless networks to add
  further value

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Space Sensing what does the future hold ?

• Enforcement
• Integration with proven ticket issuance
  applications rather than separate add-on
  enforcement support applications
• Sensing data will become a significant tool in
  optimizing enforcement efficiencies
• Way-finding
• Increased city-wide way-finding services
  incorporating on-street, off-street and special
  event parking
• Extensive deployment of true demand-based pricing
  systems beyond the current pilot and special
  purpose programs
• Shoupian reality
• Decision support systems
• Optimization of all aspects of a parking
  operation based on occupancy and compliance data

Space sensing will be become further integrated
with business processes and operational workflows
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• Questions?

Richard Joffe 646 666.7524 richard.joffe_at_parkassi
st.com
Duke Hanson 877.886.8698 dhanson_at_duncansolitions.
com