Parking to be upgraded
03.09.07
UK parking systems business APT SkiData has won one of the largest airport parking refurbishment projects this year. It is to replace the systems currently installed in the four car parks at Southampton Airport with new technology including Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR).
The contract was awarded by Meteor Parking, who manage the car park for airport operator BAA. It includes replacing systems in four areas: the short-term; long-term; car rental / collection; and staff car parks. The new APT 450 systems will cover 16 new entry / exit lanes, with 8 pay-on-foot stations also installed.
Three of the new pay-on-foot stations will be equipped for credit / debt card payments only, with the remainder equipped to accept cards and cash (coins and banknotes). These card / cash machines will be the first in Britain to feature 'note-to-note' recycling - the ability to store £5 and £10 notes and use them in change together with coins, thereby avoiding dispensing large amounts of coins as change.
The new number plate recognition technology has a dual purpose: as a security measure to allow an audit trail of vehicles in each car park; and as a customer service tool within the passenger car parks to recognise and grant entry / exit to vehicles registered as having booked and prepaid over the internet, rather than customers having to use their credit card to enter or leave the car park.
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