Benefits of Automated Parking Systems

Automated parking garages offer developers several benefits over traditional garages, including improved space utilization, reduced costs, lessened environmental impact and a luxurious user experience. With more cars on the road, developers now need to provide ample parking to accommodate them on top of tight budget constraints and already limited building footprints, particularly in congested cities.

Construction

Faster Construction

Much smaller and highly pre-fabricated structures, Cloud Parking Solutions are typically faster and easier to erect than larger monolithic concrete car parks. In the case of underground installations, there is much less volume to excavate and transport. This leads to reduced construction costs, less interest during construction and a faster start of revenue generation.

Profitable Land Use

For a given number of parking spaces, automated parking systems require significantly less area and volume than other parking options. This enables the more profitable use of valuable land for tenants, green space, etc. Cloud Parking Solutions provides clients a broader range of options from minimizing the area needed for parking to maximizing the number of parking spaces or some optimum point in between the two.

Sustainable Building

Cloud Parking Solutions offer numerous advantages over conventional parking when it comes to green space, emissions and carbon footprint reduction, solar access, storm water runoff and more:

• Depending on the number of parking spaces, greenhouse gases (VOCs, CO, NOx, etc.) are reduced 60 to 85% since no driving is required to find spaces and park cars

• Reduced land requirements permit more green space

• Especially in underground or enclosed parking applications, Cloud Parking Solutions can be substantially more energy efficient than conventional parking solutions, The smaller size of an Cloud Parking Solutions minimizes storm water run-off and management

• Less excavation depth minimizes potential groundwater impact, Cloud Parking Solutions require much less building material than conventional car parks

• Smaller and shorter, Cloud Parking Solutions minimize obstruction of views and sunlight

• Recycling of high value building materials such as steel.

Security

Inherent Security

The Cloud Parking Solutions concept inherently provides much higher levels of protection and security for cars, their contents and their drivers. Vandalism and theft are virtually impossible in a Cloud Parking Solutions. Personal security is much higher than in car parks since drivers and passengers are always in well-lit, highly visible/public entry and exit areas at street level. Cloud Parking Solutions is also an ideal solution for the handicapped since entry and exit bays can readily accommodate specific requirements and building codes.

Lower Risk & Liability

Cloud Parking Solutions minimizes the potential for property damage, theft, personal injury or death. Insurance premiums are often heavily influenced by the probability of accidents or other events occurring. The inherent safety and security of Cloud Parking Solutions greatly reduce the possibility of dents, scratches, other damage and vandalism to cars, theft of property from cars, car theft, robbery, arson, fire, assault, rape, falls and suicide.

Cost Saving

Capital Cost

The notion that Cloud Parking Solutions always cost more than multi-story parking garages or car parks is overly simplistic and frequently incorrect. Viewing Cloud Parking Solutions as direct replacements for conventional car parks often ignores the many potential benefits. When developers incorporate them into preliminary designs, the Cloud Parking Solutions substantially smaller size and design flexibility can significantly shift capital cost and project profitability for the better.

Reduced O&M Costs

Like capital cost comparisons, operation and maintenance costs are highly specific to each application. Cloud Parking Solutions have the advantage of requiring no or minimal lighting, ventilation, fire suppression, monitoring, clean up, staff and security measures in the unoccupied parking area. While most of the O&M costs for Cloud Parking Solutions involve the automated car transport systems, those costs are comparable to commonly used automated industrial storage and retrieval systems.

Profitable

Parking Optimized for Profitability

The design flexibility of Cloud Parking Solutions allows them to fit in locations or areas where other parking solutions are too large or unfeasible. Such locations are often inside, under or between existing structures, very narrow and deep areas and even irregularly shaped spaces: horizontally, vertically or both. Using otherwise unusable or lower value space for car parking is another way Cloud Parking Solutions help increase profitability.

Improved Profitability and Other Factors

Less quantifiable benefits of Cloud Parking Solutions that can improve profitability for clients include:

• Location: Cloud Parking Solutions makes it easier to have parking in locations that command higher fees and are closer to the target area.

• Reduced visual impact: the lower heights and smaller volumes of Cloud Parking Solutions minimize obstruction of views and sunshine that can reduce lease/rental rates.