Southampton Airport parking to be upgraded
03.09.07
UK Pay-on-Foot parking systems business APT SkiData has won one of the largest airport parking refurbishment projects to be awarded this year, to replace the systems currently installed in four car parks at Southampton Airport with systems including integrated Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.
The contract, awarded through Meteor Parking, who manage the car park for airport operator BAA, includes replacing systems within four areas: the short-term; long-term; car rental / collection; and staff car parks. The new APT 450 systems will cover 16 new entry / exit lanes, with eight pay-on-foot stations also be installed.
Three of the new pay-on-foot stations will be equipped for credit / debt card payments only, with the remainder equipped to accept cards and cash (coins and banknotes). These machines will be the first in mainland Britain to feature 'note-to-note' recycling - in effect the ability to store £5 and £10 cash payments and re-utilise them as change using bank notes together with coins, thereby avoiding dispensing large amounts of coins as change.
The new number plate recognition technology has a dual purpose: as a security measure to allow a complete audit trail of vehicles in each car park; 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 prepaid over the internet, rather than having to use their credit card or security pass to enter or leave the car park.
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