SENTRY CONTROL SYSTEMS EXPANDS INTO CAROLINAS

February 03, 2016

SentrySkidataGroup

Charlotte, NC (February 2, 2016)— Sentry Control Systems, America’s leading provider of parking solutions and technology, announced today that the company has expanded into North Carolina and commences operations effective March 1, 2016. Sentry installs and services many of the parking industry’s most popular and advanced technologies, including SKIDATA parking access and revenue control equipment (PARCS), Frogparking sensors and analytic software, INDECT parking guidance equipment, and Global Parking Solutions multi-space meters. With this expansion Sentry becomes SKIDATA’s exclusive distribution and servicing representative in North Carolina.

“Sentry has always been active throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and our expansion into North Carolina demonstrates our growing success in the region,” said Michael Flanagan, Executive Vice President of Sales at Sentry Control Systems. “When communities experience increased development and growth, they often face new parking challenges, including difficulty managing parking assets, increased congestion on local streets, and a variety of environmental challenges. Sentry’s parking technologies provide parking owners a variety of solutions to combat these parking challenges and continue to provide better customer service to drivers while increasing the efficiency and profitability of their parking operations.”

As part of its expansion into North Carolina, Sentry Control Systems will service SKIDATA PARCS equipment that was sold and installed by Innovative Parking Concepts. Innovative Parking Concepts is transferring the sales and servicing of its parking technology lines in North Carolina to focus on its core business of marketing and servicing electric vehicle charging equipment.

“Sentry Control Systems is one of the world’s best-known and most successful parking technology companies, and no one could better manage our customers’ parking technology needs.” said Jeff Vandeford of Innovative Parking Concepts.

About Innovative Parking Concepts, LLC

Innovative Parking Concepts, LLC ,based in Atlanta, GA, services the Southeastern US providing solutions based around parking access, security access and customized software development. IPC provides custom interfaces to PARCS for Reservations to Travel Aggregators, Event scheduling for Yield Management, Frequent Parker for Loyalty Programs and specialty needs not provided by standard software solutions. IPC partners with Hectronic and Passport for on street parking solutions. IPC also partners with Metro Plug-In, LLC to provide leading edge support for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations for Municipalities, Commercial, Residential and Multi Use Facilities.

About Sentry Control Systems

Sentry Control Systems is a national provider of parking solutions and technology. Sentry provides innovative turn-key solutions for, but not limited to: parking access & revenue control (PARCS – SKIDATA), occupancy sensors, enforcement software, permit management systems, mobile apps, and software tools for parking analytics (Frogparking), parking guidance (INDECT), multi-space meters (Global Parking Solutions), and more. Sentry has 30+years of industry experience providing a consultative approach to a wide range of environments: entertainment, retail, office buildings, municipalities, mixed-use, universities, and more. Sentry Control Systems [www.sentrycontrol.com] is a subsidiary of SKIDATA AG [www.skidata.com], a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swiss Kudelski Group [www.nagra.com]