Lucknow: Smart Parking Startup- ParkMate has successfully launched UP Govt’s first FASTag-enabled Smart Parking with the help of Lucknow Nagar Nigam. The Moradabad-based startup plans to automate major parking in Uttar Pradesh on 1 platform in upcoming years. ParkMate’s smart parking facility will solve the problem of the haphazard and illegal parking problem, eventually easing traffic congestion and providing easier access for customers to the major markets. This will generate more economic opportunities for the cities.
ParkMate provides a seamless parking experience for users, city administrations and businesses. With the ParkMate application, citizens of Lucknow will now be saved from the tedious task of searching or even visiting a parking lot. Through ParkMate’s application, available on Android and iOS platforms, users can get their cars picked up and dropped off at the location of their choice.
“Traffic congestion costs the 4 major cities of India an economic loss of ₹ 1.4 lakh crore annually. More than 25% of traffic congestion happens due to parking congestion. Finding a parking space is getting more and more challenging with the increasing number of vehicles on the road. Despite this, most multilevel car parking in India are hardly operating on their 30-50% occupancy. Whereas surface parking is over-occupied. ParkMate’s multi-dimensional services can solve all these problems. So, to end the culture of haphazard parking of vehicles, we have come up with sophisticated solutions that address all these concerns. We have a different approach than our contemporaries to solving this problem, and we are glad that Uttar Pradesh’s Govt has given us a chance to showcase our services. This will further strengthen the honourable Prime Minister’s Vision of Smart Cities and digital India. AlsoParkMate services are paperless, which makes us the most eco-friendly and the only paperless parking company in India.,” said Dhananjaya Bharadwaj, Co-founder and CEO, ParkMate.
ParkMate is proud to be a part of this major unorganized market. The startup has introduced the DROP & SHOP service, which allows users to enter their parking location, where a dedicated valet will pick up the car and park it in a nearby authorized parking lot. ParkMate’s three-tier Trishool system integrates the FASTag + ANPR +UniPay system, which uses HD cameras, an inbuilt controller, and its in-house software to automatically scan licence plates and permit/log vehicle entry.
With ParkMate, the attendants are OTP verified, and the cars are GPS-tagged so that users can track the car’s live movement. When the customer needs his car, he/she simply has to click on ‘Get my car’ and it will be delivered back safely wherever they want.
