WPS is an acronym to Wöhr Parking Systems that provides customers with the world’s most innovative automated parking technology.
Wöhr has been one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of parking technology for more than 40 years.
The idea of the automatic parking system is due to the rapid growth in urban areas for the recent years. It means that many cars were produce but parking facility were beyond the demand. Many areas are faced with the challenge of balancing the desire to maintain open space with the need to provide a parking facility that can accommodate the urban growth. An automated parking facility provides an environmentally friendly solution to this issue.
HOW IT WORKS
- Automated parking systems make use of computers, sensors, cameras and mechanical components to take the car, move it throughout the garage and park it in an empty slot.
- The process is very simple and it requires little effort from the driver. There are two types of automated parking systems, depending on the manner in which they transport the car from entry to the parking spot: horizontal platforms or vertical lifts.
- In both cases, the process is very similar, with the only thing that differs being the movement of the car until it reaches the desired space (lateral or vertical).
- In both types of systems, the car is driven into the multi-storied garage as usual. Once positioned on the ramp, the driver shuts down the engine, secures the parking brake and steps out of the car. While the driver does all this, sensors analyze the vehicle to determine it's size and overall shape.
- Once the driver has exited the building, the mechanical arms of the living building are set in motion. Depending on the available empty spots in the garage, the system determines where to take the car.
- Using various electro-mechanical components, the car is moved into the respective spot, either vertically or horizontally. For the fastest such systems, the whole process can take as little as two and a half minutes from entry to parking the car in its spot. Most such systems are fitted with turntables, which means that when leaving, there is no need for the driver to drive in reverse.
- Now, if you are wondering how the system recognizes which car is yours, you should know it does no guess work. Automated parking systems give you a card or key containing a code which identifies the position of the vehicle. Once you scan your card or key, the system finds the car and sets in motion it's mechanical arms to bring the car back to you.
For more information watch on this video. Enjoy.
Malaysia should consider the idea of the automatic parking since we have excessive car on the road and the parking facilities is not equivalent to the number of cars.
Thank you for reading :)
References
http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/documentcenter/home/view/7940
