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Access and Revenue Control
Parking access and revenue control systems (PARCS) have long been technology staples for colleges and universities. PARCS equipment controls who enters and exits parking facilities, while at the same time managing how users pay. We’ve come a long way from the days when an attendant would collect cash from parkers and promptly put the cash into a cigar box. Today’s PARCS equipment can accept cash, credit cards, student IDs and numerous other credentials.
PARCS is also the cornerstone of one of the most exciting new trends in parking: frictionless parking. Frictionless parking permits drivers to park without interact- ing with traditional payment systems, and it revolves around a suite of technologies built on top of a parking access control system — such as license plate recognition (LPR), barcode readers and reservation software — that make parking seamless and interactive by removing the need to stop at gates to enter or stop at exits to
pay. Parkers just drive in and out as they wish; the system recognizes the vehicle, associates it with a previously generated credential and bills the driver or credits it to a permit, often through a smartphone.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently installed a system utiliz- ing EMV-compliant (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) payment terminals, LPR technol- ogy, specialized software and reservation technology. Virtual parking permits are
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linked to license plates through the system, eliminating the need for physical parking permits and allowing drivers to manage their accounts online.
“By installing one of the first frictionless parking systems at an American university, UNC Charlotte’s campus planners are set-
ting a new standard for university parking,” says Blair Taylor, vice president of Sentry Control Systems. “Frictionless parking offers tremendous benefits to both the university and its various groups of parkers, and it won’t be long before other institutions follow UNC Charlotte’s example.”
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