ANPR car parking system for Southampton Airport
30.12.07
APT SkiData has won one of the largest refurbishment projects to be awarded this year. It is to replace the systems currently installed in four car parks at Southampton Airport with the latest APT 450 systems and integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.
The contract, awarded through Meteor Parking with whom APT SkiData has successfully worked at Stansted, includes replacing systems within four areas: the short-term; long-term; car rental / collection; and staff car parks at the airport. APT 450 barriers will cover 16 new entry / exit lanes, and eight pay-on-foot stations will also be installed.
Three of the new pay-on-foot stations will be the new Credit.Cash machines equipped for credit / debt card payments only; the balance will be Easy.Cash machines equipped to accept cards and cash (coins and banknotes). These machines will be the first in mainland Britain to feature 'note-to-note' recycling - the ability to store £5 and £10 cash payments and re-utilise them as change using bank notes together with coins, avoiding dispensing large amounts of coins as change.
The ANPR technology has a dual purpose: as a security measure to allow a complete audit trail of vehicles onto each site; and as a customer service tool within the visitors / passengers car parks to recognise and grant entry to those vehicles registered as having booked and pre-paid for their airport parking over the internet.
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