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COMPETITIVE SOLUTIONS WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE
ADVENTA, THE LINK TO THE FUTURE EFFICIENCY, MOBILITY, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
NEXUS, A TRULY COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR THE MOBILITY OF CITIES
EXCELLENCE IN
SERVICE
April 2016
SUMMARY April 2016
Editorial News
ADVENTA, The link to the future
Excellence in SERVICE
NEXUS, a truly comprehensive solution for the mobility of cities
®2016
PublishMaquinaria de Estacionamientos y Parquímetros SL.
Design & contentCommunication Department.
EDITORIAL
CEOOliva Torras Group
Ramon Mandaña
Although we continue to design and manufacture many metal-based products and components, the group’s companies provide a highly technological and innovative component, which they are known for in their respective markets. This multi-sectoral knowledge and the continuous technological transfer between companies allow us to provide solutions that contribute to people’s comfort, business security, social progress and environmental sustainability.
Meypar, with its 10-year history, is one of the most valuable companies in the group because of its innovative character, because of its presence in a strategic sector as is mobility and its worldwide service vocation. I invite you to learn more about these and other aspects of the company in the pages that follow in this publication.
Adding value to progress since 1945”, these simple words are not only our motto, but perfectly define our mission as a group. This 70-year history has profoundly transformed what Oliva Torras was at the beginning - a company rooted in Catalonia’s centuries-old
metallurgical tradition. Our history is our DNA, marked by the passionate and entrepreneurial character of all those who came before us. To all of them, our deepest appreciation and gratitude.
The Oliva Torras Group consists of various companies and business divisions which, through their products and services, are present throughout Europe and America.
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Editorial
Via Rail, a public railway operator in Canada, has started a process to modernize the management of the vehicle parking garage available at its stations. Meypar has developed an adapted of the VIA platform to meet the operator’s needs.
In addition to the functions specific to the regulation of parking lots, the kiosks of the Via series will offer other services to users, such as local information or information related to the railway services provided by Via Rail.
Citadel is one of the leading shopping malls in Monterrey’s metropolitan area. Owned by Stiva, with a GLA of 560,000 ft2 and close to 10 million visitors per year, Meypar has installed its Ingenia line in the 2400-space parking garage of this macro-entertainment center. This new line offers high added value, joining the reliability and robustness of the high turnover solution of the brand, with a vanguard design in view of the current trends in interiors.
INGENIA solution at Costa Rica’s Airport
Sistemas de Parqueos de Costa Rica, Meypar’s dealer in this country, has successfully completed the installation of the Ingenia solution for the monitoring and operation of the Juan Santamaría International Airport´s parking garage. This is the main airport in the country, operated by Aeris Holding Costa Rica, and located 18 km away from the city of San Jose. The parking lot, which contains 500 spaces and
registers around 60,000 monthly operations, is also used by a large number of monthly pass users. For access control, Meypar has equipped the facilities with 3 entry stations, 4 exit validators, 3 automatic pay stations, and 2 fee computers. The solution installed by Sistemas de Parqueos also incorporates LPR, HID readers, and perimetral cameras along all entrance and exit lanes.
Via Rail, new functionalities in the VIA SERIES CITADEL shopping mall
NEWS
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SANT CUGAT DEL VALLES a calling for sustainable mobility
The town of Sant Cugat del Valles, with more than 80,000 inhabitants and very close to Barcelona, has become a new Nexus city with the introduction of 34 units from the VIA series. Choosing for Meypar’s technological solution for the Smart City, the local administration is consolidating its policy towards sustainable mobility, which has for years particularly focused on all that concerns the quality of life of its citizens and its services.
The operation of the blue zone is carried out by Promusa, a publicly-owned company. This management model is representative of other medium-sized cities in which the administration chooses to take on the operation of regulated parking on public roads.
Meypar’s internationalization through its own subsidiaries has taken a significant step this year with the establishment of Meypar USA Corporation. Headquartered in Houston, the new company will have its own presence in the United States, a market in which Meypar projects are already a reality in Nevada, California and Arizona, along with increasing implementation in Puerto Rico. Meypar USA joins the companies present in Peru and Mexico, where the brand is leading the market.
MEYPAR USA Corporation always getting closer to our customers
MEYPAR solutions for toll roads
Four years after starting to work in the field of the highways business, the Meypar-Oliva Torras team continues to increase its knowledge of the modernization of toll collection. The goal of innovation in this field is to improve the level of service provided to the user, increase the security of transactions, and to optimize the management of toll booth staff. The developed solutions are part of the industry trend toward unassisted tollbooths, which are increasingly automated with the use of the latest technologies.
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COMMAND MANAGER
TARIFFENGINE
FTPSERVER
MESSAGELISTENER
TCPUDP
COMPLAINTSWIFI
SENSORIZED SPACES
OUTDOOR PARKING FACILITY
ELECTRIC VEHICLE
NEXUS, A TRULY COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM FOR THE MOBILITY OF CITIESAfter years during which the concept of a Smart City has been on the minds of the city leaders worldwide, the opinion that this is not just about equipping urban centers with innovative devices is more unanimous every day. Without a doubt, these provide improvements to citizens and local governments. However, on their own, they do
not constitute an efficient solution, as their cost is enormous and unattainable for the majority of cities.Efficiency, in addition to innovation, is turning into the key factor for all urban development. To achieve it, it is necessary to standardize services and solutions. Otherwise, a multitude of unconnected systems incapable of interacting with each other proliferate.
EFFICIENCY, MOBILITY, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIESONSTREET
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HIBERNATE LINQ
PAYMENT BY CELL PHONE
OFF-STREETINTEGRATION SOAP HTTPS
HTTP
WEBSERVER
BACKOFFICE
BBDD
SQL SERVER - ORACLE -
MYS
QL
ON-STREETINTEGRATION
SOAP
It all starts with the architecture
Nexus has been developed with this focus; creating a platform capable of providing a comprehensive response to efficient real-time management of mobility in cities while satisfying the criteria of scalability and interaction with other systems. With these goals in mind, its architecture has been designed in a modular manner, using the concept of plug-ins and the possibility of interacting with SQLServer, MySQL, and Oracle databases, among others. These two features allow the interchange of information with other platforms and the rapid development of new services.
Interaction for a comprehensive solution
Using the SOAP protocol, the web server that hosts the Nexus platform interacts with other servers dedicated to other on-street parking systems, or even with the off-street Meypar system, thus allowing for the management of integrated urban parking services. Likewise, Nexus is able to interact with parking space sensor systems, pollution sensors and noise pollution sensors, as well as signage systems and free space guidance systems. At the same time, this open design offers the possibility of integration with monitoring, maintenance, and payment via cell phone platforms and applications. These capabilities are what make Nexus a truly comprehensive solution.
The control center
The back office of the Nexus platform, with an interface developed in a web environment, allows the operator to control the whole system in real time. With access regulated depending on the user profile, the interface offers an interactive map of the urban network and the devices installed. This map allows for the monitoring, controlling, and updating of the whole network of terminals and devices. It also integrates a control panel which allows graphic access to all of the system’s indicators and statistics. For operations, the solution gives access to all information on operations, alarms, revenue, and the payment of violations. All searches are configurable by the user as to provide him with an interface perfectly adapted to each operation type.
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Innovation
Over the past 10 years, the improvement in security, speed and continuity of service has brought about a great leap forward in the use of communications networks. Increasingly common use of the internet and
more reliable networks are allowing us to move on from parking monitoring systems with off-line support to ones with online support. The new ADVENTA solution has been the result of this trend.
ADVENTA, THE LINK TO THE FUTURE
COMPETITIVE SOLUTIONS WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE OFFSTREET
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QR Code
Of all of the technologies emerging in the current market, QR codes are taking precedence over traditional bar codes due to their numerous advantages over them. Among these is the ability to be read in any position through 360. This feature, along with the reading correction capability of this technology (up to 30%), minimizes illegible tickets, which improves the reliability and robustness of the system. At the same time, QR codes have a faster reading speed, which results in a greater capacity to withstand a large volume of operations. Finally, QR codes allow the recording of a large volume of information over a smaller surface area. The Adventa series allows printing of tickets both on paper rolls and on fanfold.
Simplicity andcompetitiveness
One of Meypar’s constant goals in its new developments is always centered around offering systems which, based on their simplicity, provide competitive solutions without having to sacrifice high performance. In this sense, Adventa supports the various most commonly used products incorporated in the Ingenia series:
Ticket transactions, monthly passes, value cards, discount vouchers and pre-sale tickets. These operations are possible in online mode thanks to the QR. At the same time, this system offers simpler reading, without the need to use complex magstripe encoder/decoders. This results in a lower cost of maintenance.
Servicessuited to needs
Based on knowledge acquired through the development of the monitoring system of the Ingenia series, the R+D team has developed a new solution to meet the real-time needs of the configuration, monitoring, and control of devices. A result of this experience and of market demand, this new-generation system has a modular philosophy. Via a system of scalable licenses, operators have a control system equipped only with the modes that they use, simplifying their management.
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Innovation
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Innovation
EXCELLENCE IN
SERVICE n a market that is constantly becoming more competitive, with major actors with a global presence, Meypar has given preference to excellence in service as one of the pillars of its strategy to stand out. Present in 9 countries in Latin America, distributors have been
and continue to be a fundamental part of its achievements, and are the best way to become acquainted with the reality of local markets. To share his vision, we talked with Kenneth Murillo, the president of Sistemas de Parqueos de Costa Rica, the dealer and technical service company for Meypar in that country.
Kenneth, can you tell us about the company’s
background?
The company was founded in 1996 as a response to innovation in the automation of shopping malls, and was the first company to automate a shopping mall and three small parking lots. Since then, we have been facing new challenges in a large, emerging market.
How would you describe this market?
Costa Rica is a small country with many financial limitations. Even in the area of shopping mall development, constant growth has been maintained over the years. Small establishments have been closing and large shopping malls have been popping up. As a part of the strategy, in the field of parking lots, the customer approach is being diversified, and every day, we aim to provide better service to the end user.
What role does service play in your value offering?
The basis of our company has been and will continue to be to provide the best after-sales service, as well as effective, opportune preventative and corrective maintenance at a reasonable price. Our best salesmen are our customers themselves, to whom we owe a great deal, and who we support in the full scope of our service. This is not only about replacement parts; it also consists of priority, personalized, quality attention. This sets us apart from other companies in the local market. The availability of qualified staff and 24/7 online support is crucial to this. Retaining customers for over 20 years is not easy; it requires reinventing yourself every day and being up to date with the new
elements that emerge in the market, and which may, when applied correctly, improve and distinguish one company from another. We have to attend to and listen to our customers, in addition to being up to date.
What factors of your service and products do your customers value most?
Today, customers have multiple companies that provide the service of the sale and installation of devices. In addition, any products can be acquired online. However, once we have the product on hand, what are we going to do with it? There lies the difference; what the customer wants is to rely on a company that provides support, with replacement stock, and with staff that attend to their needs punctually and adequately. The quality and reliability of the product must meet the technical specifications, but this technology requires additional support so that it is optimally functional in all aspects. The customer hopes to acquire a product with a long useful life-span and with few technical failures. This is achieved via teamwork in conjunction with the distributor and the factory, which is a shared task and which benefits both sides. It also becomes a fundamental link in the product. It is essential that the service offered meet the needs of each customer, accompanying them from the first day of the operation of the devices, and carrying out the adjustments necessary to achieve maximum performance. This is not a simple task. It requires observation and patience to set up a device which is not only properly installed but also properly configured, and which meets all of the technical, esthetic, and operational requirements. This is the key to success, is the best cover letter, and is the only purpose that should drive us all; good service.
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HEADQUARTERS MEYPARAvda. Ragull, 50 3a 08173 SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS(Barcelona - SPAIN)Tel.: (+34) 93 544 29 33Fax: (+34) 93 675 62 [email protected]
MEXICOC/ Sassoferrato, 61 Col. Alfonso XIII01460 MEXICO D.F. (MEXICO)Tel.: +5255 5208 1644Tel.: +5255 5208 [email protected]
USATwo Allen Center 1200 Smith Street, 16th floorHOUSTON TEXAS [email protected]
PERUAvda. Víctor A. Belaúnde 147 Vía Principal 140Edif. Real Seis, 6 - 7 FLIMA, 27Tel.: +51 (1) 716 5625Fax: +51 (1) 716 [email protected]
