The frustration faced by motorists in locating a parking lot and the harrowing experience that follows will become a thing of the past with the intelligent parking lot management system developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
Easy Park (eParK), developed by C-DAC, helps motorists find convenient parking lots, en route to shopping malls, apartment complexes, cinemas, and commercial hubs, in real time and enhances their overall experience.
ePark has been put in place at a multi-level parking by the Pune municipal corporation, Satheesh G., C-DAC joint director (Intelligent Transportation and Networking Solution), told The Hindu .
The key features of ePark include individual bay monitoring, advanced parking management applications, pre-trip Web-based information systems, Variable Message Sign (VMS)-assisted display boards for driver guidance, and navigation systems that provide directions all the way to the parking lot
Customers can access vacant parking lots without driving around looking for a place to park.
Traffic jams can be prevented using entrance displays, updated in real time, with the available parking status. GPRS-enabled display boards can be installed anywhere to give the location of the parking lot and availability of parking space, Mr. Satheesh said.
At the entry gate, an image of the driver and vehicle registration number plate will be captured. A bar-coded entry token will be provided and automated boom barriers will restrict entry. At the exit gate, live streaming of the vehicle registration number will be available. The entry ticket will be scanned, receipt generated, and bill printed for motorists.
The authorities will be able to get entry and exit vehicle information, real-time vacancy report, daily and monthly revenue collection, and parking load.
Those who had shown interest in the contract for the parking lot at the KSRTC terminal at Thampanoor had approached C-DAC, he said.
ePark has been developed by C-DAC under the Intelligent Transportation System Endeavour (InTranSe) for Indian Cities, a national-level collaborative research and development programme funded by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.
