Parking Management Solution

Objective

PIA is one of the largest Industrial park in Togo. Spread across 400 ha, it includes an industrial zone, a commercial zone, a container yard to hold 12,500 containers, parking for 700 trucks

One of their challenge was to manage fleet coming in or going out of the park. While brainstorming this problem we realized it was much more than just managing the fleet. Few other challenges which we found were:

• Unable to find containers available for loading
• Huge dependency of two employees, who were engaged all day just calling drivers to load the vehicles No record of the fleet’s destination within the port.
• No trace of entry/exit time of the trucks.

Challenges

• Delay in loading/unloading of the fleet Track entry/exit of the fleet.
• Unable to Contact truck drivers.
• Revenue loss due to manual parking process.
• No defined SoPs for the operators, drivers, admins.

Solutions

After having on-ground discussions with the operations team, we created a process flow and software requirement specification document for the web and Android app. Below mentioned are some of the major features:

• User Roles included Admin, Operator, Driver and Transport company.
• Self Check-in/Check-out for drivers and operators Integration with Boom-barriers, CCTV, ANPR, Bluetooth Printer, Public address systems and Display boards.
• Offline Android app to handle poor internet connectivity
• Parking floor plan map for Admin and Operators to have a bird’s eye view for available slots, available drivers etc.
• Billing Management for accounts to raise invoice to transport companies
• Discount Management – Offer discounts to select transport companies based on the volume.

Results

• Currently the application is handling check-in/check-out for 600 trucks per day
• Operators handle all entries through offline Android app without an internet connectivity
• Tracking of empty containers, allowing Park manager to call the drivers for loading
• Streamlined the parking billing process for transport companies  and PIA accounts
• Hardware integrations  helped to reduce manual effort of the operators by 10X bringing visibility to management
• Revenue generation increased to  up to 4X through parking lot.

What Our Client Says?

“This application is a boon for the port operations team. It has helped us with automating many crucial processes.

Precisio Team has delivered  beyond  our expectations with identifying and fixing not just the parking management issue but  also  creating SoP driven application to automate the complete process.”

Bertin Abassi, Park Operations Head
Plateforme Industrielle d’Adétikopé (PIA)