Parkfolio®
Parkeon’s range of Integrated Parking Solutions is intended to provide local authorities and operators with a means of effective management and a widening of the functional possibilities in the on-street parking areas represented by the sale and distribution of parking rights, control and operation. 

These solutions rely on one essential organ: 

Parkfolio, a real Parking Information System, the operational centre for the processing and control of the whole infrastructure and all functions, it benefits from the great developments in the fields of digital technology and data interchange networks.  

One of the main attractions of Parkfolio lies in its integration concept that allows:

• coherent management of all the on-street parking infrastructures
• Distribution systems: parking ticket machines, ticket offices, internet, mobile phones
• Control and operating system based on portable devices and consultation posts
• interchange with external devices assured
• Financial payment platforms
• Geographic Information Systems  
• carrying out of a complete data consolidation
• Generation of accounting and statistical reports

Role of the Information System 

Parkfolio’s role is like that of an orchestra conductor, carrying out all the main operations necessary for the different parking infrastructure sub-systems to work properly:

• Remote sending of parameters to equipment
• Remote monitoring of equipment
• Generation of electronic rights
• Online processing of electronic payments
• Remittance of electronic payments
• Remote collection of transactional data
• Consultation of currently active rights
• Financial consolidation of receipts
• Production of statistics

Benefits

Putting such a system in place brings major benefits

• Decreased operating costs
• Better infrastructure availability
• Knowledge of user behaviour
• New services made available to the user

Infrastructure

Parkfolio’s Information System comprises computer servers and databases that interchange with each of the parking devices using the most appropriate network :

• Operation
- Banking payment platform
- Moneo payment platform
- Mobile phone payment platform
- PC workstation consultation posts
- Portable devices for operating agents

Centre for the Provision of Services

In order to save towns and operators from the need to put complex computer systems in place. Parkeon has put in place a Centre for the Provision of Services that integrates the Parkfolio Parking Information System and provides the following services:

• Issuing of Parkfolio software licences
• Configuration of Parkfolio software
- Putting into service, parameters
- Training on use
• Remedial and ongoing software maintenance of Parkfolio functional modules
• Customer assistance and support
• Hosting, administration and mointoring of servers and associated databases
• Network communications
- GPRS for the portable devices, X25, …
• Maintenance in good working order
- Monitoring of the performance of Parkfolio software
• Monitoring of application operation
- Control of downloading of rates
- Control of data collection
- Control of tichet machine communication
• Delegated services
- Administration of users and installed equipment
- Changes in rates or parameters
- Reporting of events by SMS or mail
- Remittance of electronic payments for parking
- Preparation of activity reports 

The advantages of the Provision

• "Turnkey” services
• No investment in infrastructure: premises, servers
• No system or network administration or monitoring tasks
• No computer specialisation
• Permanent system updates
• Performance controlled by agreements with the services defined
• Economic benefits of a system infrastructure whose investment and running costs are shared by all the users 

 

 

Numerous ways to get access

The Parkfolio Parking Information System offers a very large choice of ways to access the different functions and information depending on the configurations or services chosen:
• Basic data through standard interchange interfaces used chiefly by external processing devices: GIS, etc.
• Data processing functions via the internet through PC consultation posts and portable PDA-type devices, allowing them to be used anywhere, at any time and by several users simultaneously.
• Processing functions delegated by and carried out by Parkeon from data and functions of the Parkfolio System.

An open Information System

This openness is made possible by the very structure of Parkfolio both at the level of its database and its interchange interfaces (IP, X25, SOAP,…), which until now have allowed the incorporation of services such as payment by bank card, by mobile phone and mapping tools, with other services yet to come in the future.