(source: Intelligent Manufacturing Network)

Recently, as people's lives gradually return to normal and enterprises resume production and work in an orderly manner, news about the intelligent transformation of parking spaces is often reported in the newspapers. For example, in February, Fujian Putian municipal government approved an intelligent parking lot project, supporting the construction and transformation of four urban intelligent parking lots, with a total investment of 250 million; At the same time, since March, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province has also carried out intelligent transformation of about 4000 pavement temporary parking spaces in the urban area in batches; And two days ago, Guangdong Guancheng also said that it would carry out intelligent transformation of more than 3000 parking spaces to realize intelligent parking management such as unmanned management and online charging in the future.

So why are so many cities carrying out or favor the intelligent transformation of parking spaces? What will the intelligent parking lot bring to the city? Today, let's walk into "smart parking"! "Smart parking", as the name suggests, is to make the parking process and service intelligent. Through the use of various intelligent technologies, the parking lot or parking space is intelligently transformed to maximize the utilization of parking space resources, profit transformation and service provision. In recent years, "smart parking" has gradually become a tuyere. The reason is that it is affected by practical factors.According to statistics, as of the first half of last year, the number of motor vehicles in China has reached 340 million, and the number is still increasing rapidly. Every year, more than 20 million newly registered vehicles and nearly 30 million newly licensed drivers. If these figures are converted into visual images, we often see overcrowding and congestion at the gates of communities, units and shopping malls. In other words, the current automobile development is bringing a "Parking" problem.At this stage, on the one hand, the infrastructure of China's parking lot is relatively old, which has long been unable to meet the rapidly increasing number of cars and parking demand; On the other hand, the traditional form of relying on manual management has also fallen behind, with many disadvantages in service and efficiency. In this case, whether to meet the development of the automobile market or enhance urban management, the original parking lot needs to be effectively upgraded. Thanks to the rapid development of intelligent technology, intellectualization is undoubtedly an important direction and trend.

So at present, how are the intelligent transformation of parking lots carried out in China? To what extent has it been carried out?Based on the actual transformation results of various places, the transformation of "intelligent parking" in China is mainly concentrated in the following aspects: one is intelligent road gate, intelligent parking space lock, etc. These are relatively low-level intelligent transformation, which only upgrades some of the original hardware facilities of the parking lot, such as adding license plate recognition capability to the gate to realize rapid travel; Add intelligent locks to parking spaces to share parking spaces or accommodate more vehicles.

The second is parking or parking space management software. This way is to move the parking management from the real end to the network end, and realize the owner's rapid parking space search and convenient vehicle parking through mobile app software, so as to reduce the number of parking lot managers, improve parking efficiency and service, and reduce costs. The third is parking robot and three-dimensional parking equipment. The introduction of robots has been a relatively advanced intelligent transformation. The robot can park and pick up the vehicle independently and patrol and manage it independently, which not only facilitates the management personnel, but also facilitates the owner, so that both parties do not need to participate in the parking process.

The fourth is the intelligent transformation scheme of parking lot. If the above three transformations only make a part of the parking lot intelligent, then this transformation is to integrate the previous technologies to realize the comprehensive intelligence of the parking lot. At present, this transformation is not much in China, but it is the main direction in the future.At this stage, with the further development of China's automobile industry, especially the rapid rise of new energy vehicles, the intelligent transformation of parking lot is imminent and urgent. The development of "smart parking" is not only an important link to solve traffic problems and improve people's travel, but also a necessary link in the construction of smart city. The future development prospect is expected. However, at present, the complete realization of "smart parking" still faces some problems, such as technology, capital, partial coordination and so on.

Technically, we can find from the above that robots, information software, Internet of things and face recognition must be highly mature in order to ensure the success and popularization of the transformation; In terms of funds, this transformation, as a livelihood project, needs the strong support of the government, which is difficult to achieve by enterprises alone. In addition, in terms of departmental coordination, the property department and security enterprises are important participants in the intelligent transformation of parking lots, and it is also important for them to understand each other and achieve in-depth cooperation; And in the actual transformation process, they often face the non cooperation or refusal of grass-roots staff