<p class="title">APCOA PARKING, Europe’s leading parking operator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Get My Parking (GMP), India’s principal smart parking startup.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The partnership will customise and deploy an open IoT platform that provides a seamless mobility experience across all parking touchpoints.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This digital platform will be scaled to all 13 countries in which APCOA operates more than 1.4 million car spaces at over 9000 locations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is an interoperable platform, integrating varied parking equipment and connecting parking spaces to cars to create an overall mobility experience.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This enables APCOA to provide the latest consumer solutions such as their recently launched mobile app APCOA FLOW (www.apcoa.de/flow), which includes ticketless automated access and cashless exit and will soon be enhanced by pre-booking options and on-street parking payment functions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">APCOA PARKING Group CEO Philippe Op de Beeck said this strategic partnership enables us to develop our digital platform and new products very quickly and cost-effectively.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are therefore in a position to offer our customers additional value: The GMP technology works with existing barrier technologies in older car parks, eliminating the need to purchase a new parking system. And the digital platform’s enhanced compatibility means that we can launch many new services and partnerships in the near future,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Get My Parking Co-Founder and CEO Chirag Jain said the company is very much excited about this collaboration as its gives them a huge start in growing our international footprint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“APCOA is the undisputed European market leader and we could not have asked for a better partner to enter the western parking market,” said Jain.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Co-founder CMO Rasik Pansare said APCOA's scale and size is the dream opportunity for testing our technology expertise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is an ambitious projectand our team is ready for the responsibility to assist millions of European motorists," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This partnership is a marriage of operations and technology expertise, with APCOA’s experience and scale complimenting GMP’s innovation and agility. With such synergies, both expect to grow markedly in their own domains.</p>.<p class="bodytext">GMP envisages learning a great deal from the advanced parking market of Europe and implementing that in the early-stage parking industry of India, thereby accelerating the smart parking ecosystem of India. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the new technology, APCOA will offer more customer-focused services while at the same time contribute to the smart city ecosystem with innovative solutions to help meet the many challenges facing modern cities.</p>
<p class="title">APCOA PARKING, Europe’s leading parking operator, has entered into a strategic partnership with Get My Parking (GMP), India’s principal smart parking startup.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The partnership will customise and deploy an open IoT platform that provides a seamless mobility experience across all parking touchpoints.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This digital platform will be scaled to all 13 countries in which APCOA operates more than 1.4 million car spaces at over 9000 locations.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is an interoperable platform, integrating varied parking equipment and connecting parking spaces to cars to create an overall mobility experience.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This enables APCOA to provide the latest consumer solutions such as their recently launched mobile app APCOA FLOW (www.apcoa.de/flow), which includes ticketless automated access and cashless exit and will soon be enhanced by pre-booking options and on-street parking payment functions.</p>.<p class="bodytext">APCOA PARKING Group CEO Philippe Op de Beeck said this strategic partnership enables us to develop our digital platform and new products very quickly and cost-effectively.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are therefore in a position to offer our customers additional value: The GMP technology works with existing barrier technologies in older car parks, eliminating the need to purchase a new parking system. And the digital platform’s enhanced compatibility means that we can launch many new services and partnerships in the near future,” he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Get My Parking Co-Founder and CEO Chirag Jain said the company is very much excited about this collaboration as its gives them a huge start in growing our international footprint.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“APCOA is the undisputed European market leader and we could not have asked for a better partner to enter the western parking market,” said Jain.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Co-founder CMO Rasik Pansare said APCOA's scale and size is the dream opportunity for testing our technology expertise.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"It is an ambitious projectand our team is ready for the responsibility to assist millions of European motorists," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This partnership is a marriage of operations and technology expertise, with APCOA’s experience and scale complimenting GMP’s innovation and agility. With such synergies, both expect to grow markedly in their own domains.</p>.<p class="bodytext">GMP envisages learning a great deal from the advanced parking market of Europe and implementing that in the early-stage parking industry of India, thereby accelerating the smart parking ecosystem of India. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the new technology, APCOA will offer more customer-focused services while at the same time contribute to the smart city ecosystem with innovative solutions to help meet the many challenges facing modern cities.</p>