During last year?s Mobile World Congress, Acer made headlines when it announced a venture into the automotive industry with products to update in-dash console software and avoid collisions.
This year, in collaboration with the Tainan City Government and Tainan University of Technology, the company is now demonstrating a smart roadside parking management system that reduces the time drivers will spend searching for metered parking spots throughout the southern Taiwan city.
The management system allows drivers to search for real-time roadside parking availability on their smartphones in the form of smart parking meters that are placed around the city with automatic recognition of license plate numbers. The mobile application system makes the process of paying for timed parking at roadside spots ? and paying for tickets from expired time allotments ? much more efficient through the use of big data analysis.
While the system is good for drivers on the one hand, the local city government now has a more effective way of monitoring roadside parking spaces and ensuring that each expired space receives proper ticketing adjustments based on demand for spaces. Acer President Ben Wan says the company is in discussions with the Taipei City Government for adoption of the system and hopes to promote it in other Taiwanese cities in the near future.
According to the latest surveys from the partnering groups, drivers spend an average of 20 minutes finding metered parking spaces, while the total number of vehicles looking for parking spaces accounts for around 30 percent of all traffic flow.
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