BROCHURE AFC WAVE SMART PARKING

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AFC WAVE SMART PARKING

Reinventing the parking experience

AFCWAVEsmartparking.com

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Contents
About AFC WAVE Smart Parking 3

Smart Cities 4

The SmartPark System 6

SmartCloud 7

SmartCloudAPI 8

SmartMap 8

SmartSpot gateway & SmartZones 9

SmartSensors 10

SmartOHI 10

SmartANPR/LPR 11

SmartSigns 11

Smart car counters 11

“We chose AFC Wave Smart Parking as it was clear they had the best overall pricing and technology
base. Their responsiveness before, during and after the installation was excellent, and I would happily
recommend their system and service.”

Wayne Stiven
Technology Manager

Queenstown International Airport

About AFC Wave Smart Parking

AFC Wave Smart Parking is a pioneering technology innovator and services company in the
parking industry.

With offices in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, along with a rapidly growing global network of expert
partners, our aim is to bring our intelligent parking sensors and integrated smart parking services to the
world.

Each year, we install tens of thousands of sensors in a range of environments including shopping
centers, supermarkets, airports, commercial parking sites, universities and large scale municipal street
environments.

To date, our advanced real-time vehicle parking sensor solution, known as SmartPark, has been adopted
in 17 countries.

Alongside the technology products division, our managed services division operates and manages
thousands of car park spaces across the UK using complementary Automatic Number Plate
Recognition/License Plate Recognition (ANPR/LPR) technology. This can be used as a single solution or
with the option to be combined with Pay & Display or integrated with sensing technology.

AFC Wave Smart Parking Limited has been an Australian Securities Exchange (ASX:SPZ) publicly listed
company since early 2011.

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The future is smart cities

The influence of digital smart cities is changing the experience of consumers and setting
expectations that shape demand for parking services.

Modern technology innovation has brought advanced parking information to smartphones and rich
information to smart cities, offering greater convenience for motorists and car parking operators alike.

As our global population in urban areas reaches four billion, smart parking solutions have a major role to
play in bringing about improvements in convenience, congestion, urban mobility, lower costs, and the
delivery of practical information and intelligence.
AFC Wave Smart Parking’s solutions meet the stringent parking business challenges of today’s
comprehensive on-street and off-street requirements whilst creating technology innovations that will
help to shape the future of the parking industry and smart cities.

A new era in parking

AFC Wave Smart Parking sensing technology is leading the way in the delivery of proven, fully
integrated, end-to-end solutions, resulting in a transformation of the complete parking experience.

Ongoing exclusive innovations add to our capability and reinforce our market-leading position. These
range from the sensing of in-progress parking events through to the live collection of these events
within our cloud processing and analysis platform, SmartCloud, via flexible connectivity and networking
infrastructure products.

The adoption of AFC Wave Smart Parking technology equips operators with the ability to deliver a wide
range of additional services such as public broadband, safety video surveillance, air quality and lighting
control more efficiently, with new intelligent networks and greater automation via the SmartSpot
network gateway products.

Our smart solution

AFC Wave Smart Parking’s SmartPark system is a complete, end-to-end solution that pairs a network of
sensors, feature displays and live gateways with a powerful and intuitive web-based platform.

Infinitely scalable, the beauty of our system lies in the user-friendly dashboard which enables customers
to manage and analyze events and information, as well as allowing users to identify trends and interpret
data.

 SmartCloud
Developed in-house, SmartCloud is our sophisticated, powerful and innovative web-based
service platform that gathers and processes information.
 Service Packs
Using our SmartCloudAPI interface, our tailored service pack provides you access to real-time
information and events on your site.
 SmartSpots
These provide an IoT gateway in a single unit, allowing hundreds of different devices to connect
and providing areas of open connectivity called SmartZones.
 SmartSensors
We offer a range of sensors to suit the needs of different sites. These robust and scalable
devices monitor bays and relay live status information to SmartCloud.
 SmartSigns
These display real-time information around space availability and car park capacity, as well as
providing directions to encourage traffic flow.
 App & Map
Our app, SmartParking, shows motorists clear, real-time guidance and payment and our
embeddable map allows visitors to pre-plan their journey.

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“Transport for London and AFC Wave Smart Parking have had a very good working relationship
over the last few years. AFC Wave Smart Parking have undertaken a large number of
installations across the TfL car park portfolio. This has been carried out both efficiently and
effectively, enabling TfL to be able to provide an enhanced parking experience to our customers.
The service provided by AFC Wave Smart Parking has been very high, has been delivered with a
proactive attitude and performed exceedingly well against contractual obligations and
deliverables.”
Steve Lewis
Senior Category Manager | Transport for London

The SmartPark system

AFC Wave Smart Parking’s SmartPark system fully integrates parking, guidance, payment and
analytics as well as a host of other complementary services and options.
This makes the complete SmartPark solution truly a sum of its parts, and an industry leader in
the technology and parking sector.

SmartCloud
AFC Wave Smart Parking’s real-time, global scale, intelligent IoT services platform
enables sophisticated and flexible services to be created using open web interfaces.
SmartCloud is our innovative, overarching service platform that gathers data from hundreds of
thousands of installed sensors and devices, and, in turn, processes this information into
valuable, real-time reporting and events.
It is programmed to process millions of interactions with vast networks of sensors and
information equipment, as well as interconnection to other software or service systems– serving
real world solutions to millions of users across the globe.
As well as allowing secure remote device and firmware management, SmartCloud allows users
to efficiently deploy widespread updates to their entire network of devices.
The SmartCloud service platform is constructed using leading web technologies, allowing us to
provide secure universal access via standard web browsers.

SmartCloud API
We put the power of information into your hands using our back-end interface we call
SmartCloudAPI, which we deliver as a fully hosted service pack.
AFC Wave Smart Parking’s SmartCloudAPI opens up a world of possibilities by fully integrating
our SmartCloud platform with your assets, providing access to real-time information and events
happening on your site.
It is also a powerful open foundation for the future, offering a range of integration mechanics
for contractors. These include independent software vendors, mobile app developers and new
classes of highly linked service applications, as well as dynamic, information driven websites and
general data integration requirements.
Our SmartPark system is delivered as a hosted services pack. Our in-house research and
development team are constantly developing new service pack offerings to integrate into
SmartPark, and due to the open nature of the platform we can also allow outside developers to
integrate with our system.

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While the true brains behind our SmartPark system is SmartCloud and its API suite, no system is
complete without the myriad of sensors, gateways, apps and devices that both gather data and
display information. AFC Wave Smart Parking takes pride in ensuring all our componentry is
made to cutting edge specifications from quality materials, and is installed and maintained using
best practice standards.

SmartParking app
We have developed an app - SmartParking - that harnesses the power of SmartCloud to show
real-time location and guidance information from each site our sensors and devices are installed
in.
The app also includes a payment function, with handy, interactive features that alert people
when their paid time is running low, allowing them to top up remotely.
If your requirements include an app tailored to your site and brand, we can then work with you
to customize the guidance and payment app for your individual specifications.

SmartMap
Parking is often the first and last thing a customer experiences when visiting cities and
businesses. By showing them via your website the available parking choices and relative
occupancy levels at your location we inspire confidence in a seamless visit.
Our user-friendly, embeddable SmartMap does this by providing motorists with a real-time map
visualization of your parking site. Information can include occupancy levels as well as full details
of parking options including prices, times and restrictions.
It uses intelligent data gathered through vehicle detection sensors, which is then processed by
SmartCloud to be fed into your website and own mobile or desktop application. Cities are
further able to leverage additional value from SmartMap by allowing local businesses, facilities
and government organizations to take advantage of this source of information by embedding
the map onto their own websites.
 SmartSpot gateway and SmartZones
Every time we deploy our SmartPark system at a site we install multiple SmartSpot units, each of
which remotely picks up individual bay status from a set cluster of sensors, relaying this
information directly into SmartCloud.
These SmartSpot gateways are powerful and scaleable smart city building blocks that provide a
common IoT gateway in a single unit. These flexible gateway platforms create areas of open
connectivity that we call SmartZones. SmartZones make obsolete the growing issue emerging in
cities where operators are faced with a multitude of costly and isolated communication devices
installed within the city street environments.
Once a SmartPark system is installed, city operators have a compatible unit with the ability for
other services such as lighting, public WiFi, surveillance and more to be connected at a later
date. It also means less hardware cluttering up city streets, and a more streamlined way of
managing a raft of smart city services.

 Our SmartSpot Omni models offer wider options for connectivity including Ethernet/Fibre Optic,
WiFi, as well as wireless sensors.
 Our SmartSpot Lite models are focused on wireless sensor connectivity and are perfect for use
in areas where interconnectivity with outside devices is not required.

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SmartDevices
All of AFC Wave Smart Parking’s systems are based around a modular approach so we’re able to
offer bay monitoring, car counting systems, fixed and mobile automatic number plate
recognition (ANPR), guidance signage and more to a wide range of large-scale sites.

SmartSensors
AFC Wave Smart Parking’s unassuming yet highly innovative in-ground sensors monitor
individual parking spaces and relay occupancy status to our SmartSpot gateways, which in turn
send this live status information to the SmartCloud platform, allowing real-time information of
parking events to be viewed on multiple devices.
We ensure that each sensor meets our rigorous functional requirements before installation,
meaning they can operate under a wide range of operational environments with high accuracy,
and we can tailor sensor behavior to individualparking space requirements.

SmartOHI
The AFC Wave Smart Parking overhead indicator system is a simple, cost-efficient and highly
effective off-street parking management system.
This system transforms the multi-storey parking experience for drivers by providing high-
visibility, color coded LED overhead guidance indicators that are dynamically controlled by your
SmartPark business rules, allowing users to see the availability of entire rows of parking bays at
a glance.
Each and every bay relays live status to SmartCloud, which in turn is able to channel this
information into guidance and capacity signs as well as reporting and analytics of the entire car
park.

SmartANPR/LPR
AFC Wave Smart Parking’s automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) / license plate
recognition (LPR) parking system is a simple, efficient and cost-effective way of off-street car
park management.
Cameras placed at entry and exit points take a timed photo of the number plate of each vehicle
entering and exiting the premises. Customers then simply pay and walk, using their license place
as identification. We can also configure sites to have validated parking which can include permit
only, staff only, free limited time parking and definable grace periods, to name a few.
As with our other solutions, SmartANPR/LPR work with the SmartCloud platform to deliver
occupancy, stay rates and enforcement efficiency reporting for car park management and future
planning.

SmartSigns
Our variable message signs display real-time space availability and direction to available bays,
meaning traffic flow and space is optimized within a car park.
The real-time status of each bay is transmitted from the sensor to the SmartCloud platform,
which in turn updates the variable message signs using digital network communications. This
informs drivers the number, type and location of available spaces, along with direction
indicators to keep traffic flowing.
This signage can be placed anywhere within the car park as well as main entrances and on-street
locations.

Smart car counters

Using either a smart loop controller or a car counter device we can offer sites that have defined
entry and exit points a car counting service. This means that as well as seeing individual bay
occupancy status, you can also monitor how many cars are currently maneuvering your site.

[Additional note]
If you are interested in finding out more about our SmartPark system, or would like to view a
demo, please contact us at one of the numbers on the reverse of this brochure.

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Reinventing the parking experience

AFC WAVE SMARTPARKING

New Zealand
+64 (0)9 69 3001
[email protected]
Australia
+61 (0)38644 4021
[email protected]

United Kingdom
+44 (0)845 230 3081
[email protected]

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