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How UK car parks are transforming into tech havens

Written by CRETech | Oct 29, 2018 12:33:35 PM

Once a car park was simply somewhere to leave vehicles, but now digital solutions from apps to sensors are transforming the humble parking bay into a high-tech haven.

Parking is changing at a rapid rate as technology becomes more sophisticated and cheaper to implement at scale. Already, coins are out and cards are in when it comes to car park payment machines. JLL research shows that in 2017, 44 percent of car parks took contactless payments, up from 10 percent in 2014.