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| Pelepark is a system that uses advanced technology for the collection of parking fees through the use of mobile phones. A provisional patent application has already been submitted in the US for Pelepark's innovative technology.
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The Challenge:
Supplying a reliable, user-friendly product, allowing effective and profitable collection of parking fees.
Today, the use of parking meters and parking cards provides only a partial solution to the problem of collecting fees for parking on city streets. Advances in technology, combined with the widespread use of mobile phones by the general public, have led to the development of a solution that allows drivers to pay for parking on city streets by using their mobile phones.
The challenge facing municipalities is to provide the public with a reliable and user-friendly solution, while reducing the costs of collection and enforcement. Pelepark meets this challenge.
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A Payment System Using Mobile Phones:
Pelepark: A software system for collecting of parking fees without the need for tokens, parking cards, or parking meters.
The Pelepark software system allows collection of parking fees by mobile phones, utilizing existing resources (in the possession of both citizens and local government).
Drivers wishing to park on city streets can pay for parking time by using their mobile phones, while traffic inspectors can use their mobile phones for verifying the parking status of each parked vehicle.
This concept uses existing cellular communication technology that helps provide a simple and user-friendly solution for managing and enforcing parking payments.
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System Advantages: For Municipalities
- Increases municipal income from parking on city streets by reducing the number of instances in which no payment is made, due to inconveniences of the existing system.
- The system does not require financial investment by the municipality.
- The municipality knows at any given time how much money has been collected from drivers for parking minutes.
- Does not prevent the use of other means of payment for parking.
- Uses devices already existing within the municipality - inspectors' cell phones.
- Simple and easy collection of payments based on various parking rates, according to region, time of day, etc.
- Provides added value to drivers by offering flexible means for paying parking fees - thus improving the municipality's public image.
- Reduces investment in other parking payment methods (parking meters, parking cards, etc.)
- Reduces investment in the existing logistic array for distributing parking cards and servicing parking meters.
- Enables real-time information updates on parked vehicles via an online web interface.
- Enables the supervision of the work of inspectors.
- Simple and easy to use.
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System Advantages: For The Parking Public
- Realistic charges on parking minutes (payment for actual time parked, accurate to the second).
- Quick and convenient payment.
- Does not prevent the use of existing parking payment methods.
- No need to decide on parking time in advance, as required when using parking meters or parking cards.
- No need to search for parking meters or locations for purchasing parking cards.
- No need to carry a supply of tokens.
- Uses existing technology already in the possession of the driver - the mobile phone.
- Provides a website with online information on previous parking charges.
- Simple and user-friendly.
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How The System Works
The driver who wishes to park, calls an automatic answering system via his/her cell phone; the system identifies the driver's cell phone number and allows the driver to select the start time for paid parking from a recorded menu. Upon returning to the vehicle, the driver again calls the automatic answering system via the cell phone, and terminates the paid parking time. The driver is charged only for actual time parked.
Any driver wishing to use this form of payment will be required to perform a brief, one-time registration upon first using this method; registering the vehicle's license number, driver's credit card number, and the number of parking minutes he or she wishes to purchase (towards the "parking minutes bank"). In addition, the system allows the driver to receive SMS notices shortly before the allotted parking minutes in the "bank" run out.
The parking inspector can check the parking status of any vehicle parked in city streets through the using his/her mobile phone; the phone connects directly to the parking server's control and supervision system. The inspector punches in the vehicle number and receives a notice stating whether a fine should be issued or not. The system queries the parking server regarding the vehicle's parking status and sends information to the inspector's mobile phone regarding the driver's eligibility for a discount on parking minutes, due to being an area resident; all the inspector has to do is verify that the vehicle reported by the system bears a regional parking sticker.
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