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INTRODUCING CURBWAY: NEW DIGITAL CURB MANAGEMENT AND MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR CITIES

October 15, 2018

INTRODUCING CURBWAY:

NEW DIGITAL CURB MANAGEMENT AND MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR CITIES

As Cities Battle Over Curbside Usage, Curbway Brings “Air Traffic Control” To The Curb By Building A Comprehensive Curb Management Platform For Cities

New Orleans, LA– October 16, 2018– Today Curbway announced the development of a comprehensive curb management platform that paves a realistic pathway for cities to control and manage their curbside assets. The platform serves as an intermediary between cities and their parking & enforcement vendors, delivery & shipping providers, TNCs, public transportation resources, and other emerging multi-modal mobility assets.

According to the International Parking Institute’s 2018 Emerging Trends in Parking Survey, the need for new curb management strategies was the top ranked emerging trend for parking and mobility professionals. In fact, the Trends report notes, “it’s all about the curb.”

From New York to Los Angeles, local curb usage laws vary widely and complaints about infrastructure strain and quality-of-life are mounting as demand for curb usage soars, triggered in part by ride and bike share providers, online deliveries, public safety issues and rising urban tourism.

Curbway will serve as the platform of record by centralizing and storing all rate, policy, and transactional data associated with the city’s curb use. This data is used by Curbway’s application modules to provide immediate opportunities for solving pain points in urban landscapes. As an example, Curbway’s mobile payment aggregator allows cities to enable their curbs to accept multiple payment providers and achieve higher adoption of mobile parking payments, a key step toward truly digitizing the curb. Curbway will also provide modules for cities to directly manage the growing influx of curb traffic associated with shared service providers and, eventually, autonomous vehicles.

Curbway’s key innovations that address core market challenges include:

Mapping and digitizing city curb inventory and policies
Making payments universal and cross-platform
Improving compliance with the use of existing enforcement strategies

Curbway will be piloting this platform in select cities in early 2019 and will make the solution available to the entire market in the second quarter of 2019.

Curbway has assembled an executive team with deep expertise in technology, mobile payments, parking operations, and urban mobility. John Spivey is Curbway’s CEO, a seasoned entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in executive leadership in start-up and emerging growth companies with a special emphasis on transformative software-as-a-service platforms. Charley DeBow will serve as EVP of Strategy and Partnerships after spending the last 4 years expanding mobile parking payments to over 100 cities in the U.S. Nathan Donnell will serve as EVP of Business Development, an innovative industry strategist with 20+ years of sales and management experience within the parking and mobility industries. Anthony Broad-Crawford, a global technology executive with 15+ years of experience in thought leadership, with special focus on the Urban Tech and mobility industries will serve as strategic executive advisor leading all technology. Curbway’s advisory board also consists of parking and technology experts with over 50 years of combined industry expertise.

“The curb is one of the most undervalued city assets and still operates in an analog fashion. Confusing signage, antiquated policies, and complex zoning regulations all complicate management efforts for this essential public space. Digital curb management is the single biggest transportation challenge facing municipal transportation professionals, urban planners, administrators and public policy managers. We are laser-focused on delivering a software platform that allows cities to take meaningful steps toward comprehensive, digital management of their curbs which, in turn, will yield safer streets and greener, more livable cities. We are eager to start helping cities command their curb,” said John Spivey, CEO.

About Curbway:

Curbway is a New Orleans based mobility company lead by experts in the industry with a combined 50 years experience in parking operations, public sector and mobility. Senior management includes innovators and product designers from leading parking payment providers and technology ventures. The company is designing the next generation mobility solution for cities.

Web: curbway.com

Social: Twitter (@curbway), Instagram (@curbway), Facebook (fb.com/curbway), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/curbway)

Curbway Contacts:

John Spivey, CEO

jspivey@curbway.com

Media Contacts:

Jeff Hinson, Marketing Director

jhinson@jmhcompanies.com

Traffic flow and Parking access control simplified by use of TagMaster ANPR cameras in 30 Norwegian airports

October 10, 2018

Traffic flow and Parking access control simplified by use of TagMaster ANPR cameras in 30 Norwegian airports

Press release, Stockholm, October 10, 2018

TagMaster, leading supplier of advanced sensor systems for Smart Cities, has delivered their CitySync ANPR cameras for use in 30 airports in Norway in cooperation with APCOA Parking Norway. Totally 400 ANPR cameras has been deployed in order to facilitate entry and exit of numerous parking facilities at the airports.

The cameras were installed as part of the APCOA CPMS (Car Park Management System) which is using ANPR cameras to identify vehicles entering and exiting the car parking facilities at the airports.

The goal with the project is to digitalize the traffic flow and parking at the airports. There are high demands on system functionality, as many of the airports are located at the coastline of Norway, with rough weather conditions and the North Sea almost hitting the runways. Projects cater for multifaceted solutions, with many different car parks used for several purposes and intricate demands.

“We are proud of having been chosen by APCOA as supplier for this new and exciting installation of our CitySync ANPR cameras. The use of ANPR technology for vehicle identification provides new and interesting features for the parking industry and we are happy to be part of this large and complex project” , says Jonas Svensson, CEO, TagMaster.

For further information please contact:

Jonas Svensson, CEO, +46 8-632 19 50, jonas.svensson@tagmaster.com

About APCOA PARKING Norway

APCOA Parking Norway is a full-service parking company that manages 1200 parking locations throughout the country together with approx. 350 skilled employees, passionate about parking. Our products are tailored to the individual customer and we have experience and knowledge in all sectors (airport, hospital, trade fair and conference centers, shopping malls, entry parking, hotels, city centers, on-street and off-street). We offer innovative, reliable, sustainable and secure parking solutions, supported by well trained personnel and unique technology. Customer service that is always open (24/7/365) and local knowledge is the heart of our service offerings. www.apcoa.no

About TagMaster

TagMaster is an application driven technology company that designs and markets advanced sensor systems and solutions based on radio & vision technology (RFID, Radar & ANPR) for demanding environments. Business areas include Traffic Solutions and Rail Solutions sold under the brands TagMaster, CitySync, Balogh, CA Traffic, Magsys and Hikob with innovative mobility solutions in order to increase efficiency, security, convenience and to decrease environmental impact within Smart Cities. TagMaster has dedicated agencies in the US and in China and exports mainly to Europe, The Middle East, Asia and North America via a global network of partners and, systems integrators. TagMaster was founded in 1994 and has its headquarters in Stockholm. TagMaster is a public company and its shares are traded on First North stock exchange in Stockholm, Sweden. TagMasters certified advisor is Erik Penser Bank AB. www.tagmaster.com

TagMaster subsidiary CA Traffic receives extension order on Smart City solution

September 26, 2018

TagMaster subsidiary CA Traffic receives extension order on Smart City solution

Stockholm, Sweden, September 26, 2018

TagMaster, leading supplier of advanced sensor systems for Smart Cities, has through its subsidiary CA Traffic Ltd received an order on extension for a Smart City solution in Newcastle in northern England. The order comprises both ANPR products and traffic management software.

The order is an extension to an existing structure that have been in place since 2013 and is an important part of Newcastle Smart City development project. The order includes both ANPR products from TagMaster subsidiaries CA Traffic and CitySync, and an extension of the CA Traffic Catalyst management software that manage all the ANPR cameras in Newcastle.

Newcastle is one of the most developed and advanced cities in UK when it comes to Smart City solutions. Data from multiple sensor sources in the city are used to implement a number of strategies/algorithms, out of which many are fully automated, to achieve the key aims of reducing travel times, improving air quality and keeping the public fully informed in order to encourage visitors to the region.

All ANPR products are part of the standard assortment and will be delivered during 2018.

”TagMaster has earlier expressed its enthusiasm for the product portfolio that we, after the acquisition of CA Traffic, can offer the market. This order confirms our ambition to become the leading Smart City solution provider in the UK. We will during the next 12 months launch a number of hardware and software innovations within our ANPR product segment. This will together with our enlarged sales force, help us to increase our market share significantly”, says Jonas Svensson, CEO, TagMaster.

For further information please contact:

Jonas Svensson, CEO, +46 8-632 19 50, jonas.svensson@tagmaster.com

About TagMaster

TagMaster acquires the French IoT specialist Hikob

August 31, 2018

TagMaster acquires the French IoT specialist Hikob

TagMaster, the leading supplier of advanced sensor systems for Smart Cities within traffic and rail solutions has acquired all the assets related to the sensor products from Hikob SA.

Hikob SA was established in 2011 and is one of the leading IoT/sensor companies in France with a strong foothold within parking, traffic and weather sensors. One strong application area is for electrical vehicle charging stations where they cooperate with the larger French system integrators within EV charging. Hikob is one of the pioneers within IoT in France and has regularly been on the list of the 100 most interesting industrial IoT companies (IoTone).

TagMaster will acquire all the assets related to Hikob sensor products, gateway systems, the data collection platform and the related R&D team, all based in Grenoble (France). TagMaster has created a new company in France which will take on the name Hikob and where all the assets will be deployed. The HIKOB technology engineering services business unit will remain autonomous and continue its development under the form a new company entitled Sequanta.

The consideration will be funded from the existing bank facilities and the acquisition is expected to be earnings enhancing to TagMaster in the first full financial year following the transaction. It is also a strategically important strengthening of the TagMaster Group in an area we believe will be very important within a few years.

”TagMaster is excited about this important step in our growth strategy and we will together with the Hikob team become a stronger player in the Parking & Traffic solutions market and continue to establish ourselves as an important player in Smart City solutions. There are clear and immediate synergies between Hikob and CA Traffic and Magsys. With the combined expertise we believe we have an excellent opportunity to become one of the main players in the fast growing ITS market in France, UK and Nordic (our home markets). ” says Jonas Svensson, CEO, TagMaster

For more information, please contact;
Jonas Svensson, CEO
E-mail: jonas.svensson@tagmaster.com

About TagMaster

TagMaster is an application driven technology company that designs and markets advanced sensor systems and solutions based on radio & vision technology (RFID, Radar & ANPR) for demanding environments. Business areas include Traffic Solutions and Rail Solutions sold under the brands TagMaster, CitySync, Balogh, CA Traffic and Magsys with innovative mobility solutions in order to increase efficiency, security, convenience and to decrease environmental impact within Smart Cities. TagMaster has dedicated agencies in the US and in China and exports mainly to Europe, The Middle East, Asia and North America via a global network of partners and, systems integrators. TagMaster was founded in 1994 and has its headquarters in Stockholm. TagMaster is a public company and its shares are traded on First North stock exchange in Stockholm, Sweden. TagMasters certified advisor is Erik Penser Bank. www.tagmaster.com

DCA: Smart phone to unlock the City of Fremantle’s Integrated Parking Management System

August 01, 2018

Smart phone to unlock the City of Fremantle’s Integrated Parking Management System

City of Fremantle has chosen Database Consultants Australia (DCA) as the preferred supplier to deliver their smart city parking strategy. The city is looking to improve community parking satisfaction and has chosen DCA’s Integrated Parking Management System (IPMS) to provide a higher quality community experience.

The awarding of the city’s IPMS to DCA follows a surge in demand for its innovative smart phone parking app PayStay, which is the fastest growing consumer parking solution in Australia.

DCA Director of Smart City Technologies Sandy Del Papa said the smart phone is key to citizens unlocking the benefits of smart cities.

“Through the introduction of state-of-the-art technology we’ll look to make the best of the City of Fremantle’s parking network and deliver greater efficiency and optimisation of available parking. We’ll support the city with optimal access and insight to mobility data to increase the city’s ability to make data-driven decisions and ultimately deliver a truly connected parking experience to the citizens of Fremantle” Del Papa said.

The imminent delivery of the IPMS aligns directly with the city’s goals of developing a responsible social, economic and environmentally efficient city and delivering the subsequent benefits to the community. DCA will deliver an integrated suite of technologies including pay by smart phone solution, PayStay. This proven technology will enable motorists to search via their smart phone for parking, navigate to parking and pay only for the time they require, together with optional notification of when their parking will expire, all within a single highly functional app.

In partnership with DCA the city will also address the emerging demand for digital permit solutions, with the introduction of ePermits. ePermits offer both convenience and flexibility to citizens with online applications, payment and issuing, together with flexible digital visitor permits.

For more information contact:

Kristy Cook +61 (0) 419 348 811

About DCA

DCA specialise in technology and data optimisation. DCA are experts in IoT software innovations, database development and data management, and are driving transformation across four core niche markets;

Smart city and parking technologies
Higher education research management
Digital marketing support services
Hosting and data assurance services

DCA are proudly Australian owned and do business in four countries. Their 180+ passionate employees and local development team are dedicated to turning client’s ideas into commercial reality.

T2 Systems Kicks Off North America ReConnect Tour

February 08, 2018

T2 Systems Kicks Off North America ReConnect Tour

Indianapolis, IN – February 8, 2018 – T2 Systems, a provider of the industry’s most comprehensive suite of parking solutions, today announced the start of its 2018 ReConnect North America Tour. The event series kicks off on February 8, 2018 in Portland, OR at Portland State University. ReConnect events bring the best parts of T2’s Connect conference on the road—allowing customers to learn insights from fellow peers about how to drive success in their parking operation and hear about the latest technology from T2 experts.

T2’s SVP, Customer Experience Maggie Vercoe will host each event and be joined by other T2 leaders to outline how T2 is solving customers’ parking problems and facilitate discussions and networking.

“Our annual Connect conference we host in November is one of the most valuable ways we bring our customer community together,” said Vercoe. “Our ReConnect Tour allows us to take Connect on the road and give even more of our customers the chance to come together to learn and share with their peers. It’s another way we’re working to encourage collaboration between our customers, which continues to be one of our highest priorities.”

The ReConnect North America Tour will stop in ten cities from February through May. Each event will feature presentations from T2 customers showcasing successful project implementations and results, discussion panels and networking. Upcoming ReConnect destinations include: Baltimore, Atlanta, Nashville, Colorado Springs, Vancouver, Austin and more.

T2’s UNIFI Parking Management Platform provides a full suite of technology solutions to increase efficiency, improve ease of parking management and boost revenue for its users. Over 1,500 customers—including universities, municipalities and private operators—rely on T2 for multi-space pay stations, permit management, enforcement, LPR, PARCS, vehicle counting, citation services and event parking.

Learn more about the ReConnect events and T2’s innovative parking solutions at T2’s website.

About T2 Systems

T2 Systems is the largest parking technology provider in North America, with more than 23 years in the parking management industry and currently serving thousands of parking professionals. T2 integrates the best people, processes and technology for powerful, high performance and secure parking solutions. Its open technology and processes are used to manage more than 200 million parking transactions for over 2 billion dollars annually across all 50 states and nine provinces in Canada. For more information about T2 Systems, visit www.t2systems.com.

ParkNews.biz at Gulf Traffic 4 – 6 December 2017, Dubai World Trade Centre Arena

December 01, 2017

ParkNews.biz at Gulf Traffic 4 – 6 December 2017, Dubai World Trade Centre Arena

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Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors

November 14, 2016

Libelium releases new IoT Smart Cities Platform enhancing accuracy in noise level and air quality pollution sensors

With the aim to improve control on environmental emissions and sound pollution to combat climate change and to reduce the impact in citizens health, Libelium launches new worldwide certified sensors according to the last legislation requirements.

Barcelona(Spain), 14/11/2016

Today, at Smart City Expo, Libelium presents the new generation of the IoT Sensor Plaform for Smart Cities with more accurate sound level and air quality sensors. These sensors address current market demands of higher precision and are aimed to complete the professional equipments to increase city capillarity.

Traffic noise and air pollution together represent the most important environmental risk factors in urbanized societies. Increased awareness of the societal burden of these factors is intensifying the efforts for effective legislation. “Up to 3.7 million people die yearly in the world due to exposure to pollution in cities. The UN Climate Change Conference COP22 is agreeing to implement climate finance to reduce gas emissions so developed countries have a commitment to invest $100 billion annualy by 2020 and the smart cities market needs accurate technology to comply with legislation”, reasons Alicia Asín, Libelium CEO.

In this emerging scenario, Libelium has improved its sensors design according to regulations of noise and environmental control. A new set of factory-calibrated gas sensors allows to calculate the AQI (Air Quality Index) following international worldwide directives, measuring CO, NO, NO2, SO2 and dust/particle matter (PM1/PM2.5/PM10). This new generation of gas sensors offers extra accuracy detecting variations as small as 0.1 ppm in many cases.

The new sound level sensor can be placed outdoors as it includes a waterproof microphone. It has been designed following the specifications of the IEC 61672 standard for sonometers with an accuracy of +/-0.5dBA. The value given by the sensor is the Leq (Equivalent Continuous Sound Level), a magnitude used in regulations of noise control at workplaces and outdoors and perfect for the creation of sound level maps.

“The accuracy of these sensors and the fact of being wireless communicated with any Cloud platform in real time make them the perfect complement to extend the capillarity of these services in Smart Cities” concludes David Gascón, Libelium CTO.

Libelium Plug&Sense! Smart Cities is fully certified with CE (Europe), FCC (US), IC (Canada), ANATEL (Brazil), RCM (Australia), PTCRB (US) and AT&T (US).

More information: http://www.libelium.com/libelium-releases-new-iot-smart-cities-platform-enhancing-accuracy-in-noiselevel- and-air-quality-pollution-sensors/

CivicSmart Technology Showcased at Smart Cities Innovation Summit

June 27, 2016

CivicSmart Technology Showcased at Smart Cities Innovation Summit

Highlighted as part of Current, powered by GE, partner ecosystem

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (June 27, 2016) – CivicSmart, Inc., an innovator of patented on-street parking sensors and other “Smart Parking” technologies, recently exhibited at the Smart Cities Innovation Summit in Austin, TX, with Current, powered by GE, an energy startup within GE’s walls servicing intelligent cities, in addition to commercial and industrial customers. As an incubator for innovation, the Summit highlights best of breed technology companies offering leading IoT solutions for smart city applications.

Now part of Current’s Intelligent Environments ecosystem, CivicSmart’s solutions will work in concert with Current’s intelligent light fixtures to enable cities to better manage their existing parking infrastructure.

“Since establishing our partnership with Current this spring, we have been working in concert to integrate GE’s smart LED platform with CivicSmart’s leading parking solutions to bring new efficiencies to cities,“ stated Mike Nickolaus, President and CEO of CivicSmart.

CivicSmart’s AutoISSUE citation issuance software guides the officers to vehicles in violation for action. The efficiencies gained through this system allow cities to better manage both their parking assets and enforcement staff while also improving the utilization of parking resources to help drivers to find open spaces faster.

Based in Milwaukee, CivicSmart’s patented “Smart Parking” solutions can be found today in 2,000 cities around the world. CivicSmart’s solutions include vehicle detection sensors, smart parking meters, wireless handheld enforcement devices, electronic permits, and comprehensive data management systems.

About CivicSmart

CivicSmart, Inc., is a technology services and engineering company specializing in developing and delivering innovative parking and transportation offerings. CivicSmart solutions have been deployed globally and CivicSmart serves 2,000 clients. More information about CivicSmart is available at CivicSmart.com.

IPS GROUP’S NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART CITIES TAKE CENTER STAGE AT IPI

May 20, 2016

IPS GROUP’S NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART CITIES TAKE CENTER STAGE AT IPI

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Smart Parking leader, IPS Group, Inc., is unveiling several new innovative technologies at the 2016 IPI Expo in Nashville, Tenn., this week.

The company is showcasing technology and providing live demonstrations of new smart products in their interactive booth display. The IPS Group Dome-Mount Sensor is a key innovation already being pre-ordered by municipalities nationwide. It demonstrates local decision-making at its best, by integrating real-time data and guidance into your Smart Parking Program. The sensors install directly into the meter and communicate over the IPS cellular backbone and can be configured for almost any parking environment.

The “IPS Group Innovation Table” also highlights the latest security available on the market such as the EMV-Approved Card reader. EMV Levels 1 and 2 approved, the reader installs in single-space and multi-space meters in a customer-friendly design. The company is also showcasing the latest generation in cellular technology, allowing municipalities to “future-proof” their city’s parking program.

Booth visitors are also being given a “sneak preview” of new applications and web sites such as a parking receipts consumer web site, and the newly redesigned IPS web-based Data Management System that allows customers to manage critical data and access advanced analytics from anywhere, at any time.

IPS Group COO Chad Randall stated, “IPS Group has a proud tradition of innovation and we are excited to launch some of our latest technology at the IPI Expo. It’s a great opportunity to interact with many clients and the response to the new products has been exceptional.”

About IPS Group, Inc.

IPS Group Inc., (www.ipsgroupinc.com) is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. (USA), with offices in Canada and Europe (www.ipsgroupinc.com). IPS is a design, engineering and manufacturing company focused on low power wireless telecommunications, payment processing systems and parking technologies and has been delivering world-class solutions to the telecommunications and parking industries for over 20 years. The company offers a fully integrated smart product suite comprised of single-space meters, multi-space pay stations, pay station upgrade kits, vehicle detection sensors, smart cash collection systems, and SaaS management software with advanced data analytics. IPS converts the concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities into reality for transportation and parking operations all over the world.

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