IAN Backed Get My Parking Launches 'Enable' - An IoT based Smart Parking Solution

Taking its mission to digitize global parking forward, Get My Parking (GMP) is launching the newest addition to its smart parking platform – ‘Enable’. GMP Enable is an IoT module that upgrades the old to the new. It connects any existing parking access system to any third party mobile app and sensors. Packaged as a small black box, it retrofits existing parking equipment in a plug and play manner.

For parking operators, this means they no longer need to invest in new equipment to turn their facilities smart. They can keep their existing equipment and use GMP Enable to connect it with any online software. Be it old or new, GMP Enable makes all equipment compatible, facilitating an ecosystem of integrated components that work together as per defined business rules. No matter from which vendor parking access system comes from, GMP Enable makes it easy to create an interoperable ecosystem.

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“Enable is designed to work with any type of access control – RFID, NFC, QR code, Bluetooth, or camera vision. It can handle communications over multiple protocols (GPIO, Wiegand, TCP/IP, Serial over RS232, etc) that have been industry standards, thus ensuring over 90% compatibility in the parking ecosystem. Enable can handle transactions in online mode as well as partially offline mode in case of low connectivity.It alsointegrates with the other Get My Parking products likeGMP Report Dashboard for advanced analytics and GMP Admin Console for managerial control.”,says Aman Singh, Head of IoT, Get My Parking.

There are two exemplary benefits of using GMP Enable at any parking lot:

1. Parking operators can immensely save costs on upgrading their operations to online smart parking


2. Easily make parking infra ready for the new digital mobility like car sharing, renting, and app taxis

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In the ongoing mobility revolution, the parking utilized by car sharing and renting services is increasing rapidly. Old systems are not meant to handle the flexible business requirements of these fleets of taxis and shared cars. But GMP Enable is designed to help with fleet parking management and allows the parking systems to integrate and talk to the world of shared mobility. To help commercial as well as residential parking lots to become IoT smart and future proof, GMP Enable is now available across 16 countries where Get My Parking is operational.

Last June, the startup partnered with APCOA PARKING, Europe’s leading parking operator, to customize and deploy an open IoT technology that integrates parking equipment onto a standard, interoperable platform. With this, partnership, the digital platform of Get My Parking scaled to all 13 countries in which APCOA operates more than 1.4 million car spaces at over 9000 locations.

India’s Smart Parking Startup To Revolutionize Parking in 13 Countries

GET MY PARKING, India's Smart parking startup, has partnered with APCOA PARKING, Europe’s leading parking operator, to customize and deploy an open IoT technology that integrates parking equipment onto a standard, interoperable platform.

With this partnership, the digital platform of New Deli-based startup will be scaled to all 13 countries in which APCOA operates more than 1.4 million car spaces at over 9000 locations. This enables APCOA to provide the latest consumer solutions such as their recently launched mobile app APCOA FLOW (www.apcoa.de/flow), which includes ticketless automated access & cashless exit. It will soon be enhanced by pre-booking options and on-street parking payment functions.

“This strategic partnership enables us to develop our digital platform and new products very quickly and cost-effectively. We are therefore in a position to offer our customers additional value: The GMP technology works with existing barrier technologies in older car parks, eliminating the need to purchase a new parking system. And the digital platform’s enhanced compatibility means that we can launch many new services and partnerships in the near future,” said Philippe Op de Beeck, CEO of APCOA PARKING Group.

Founded in 2015 by Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare, Get My Parking is organizing the parking industry with technology and data saves, It offers app that saves the trouble of looking for parking and provides real time parking information by navigating directly to available parking lot near you or your destination. We are .

“We are very excited about this collaboration, as it gives us a huge start in growing our international footprint. APCOA is the undisputed European market leader & we couldn’t have asked for a better partner to enter the western parking market” said Chirag Jain, CEO, Get My Parking. Co-founder CMO Rasik Pansare added, “APCOA's scale and size is the dream opportunity for testing our technology expertise. It is an ambitious project & we are ready for the responsibility to assist millions of European motorists.”

This partnership is a marriage of operations and technology expertise, with APCOA’s experience complimenting GMP’s innovation and agility. Leveraging this platform, APCOA will also contribute to the smart city ecosystem.

The proprietary open platform is modular and future-proof; Providers of services like car sharing services, EV charging and others can be easily integrated into the platform. The first platform driven cooperation was entered into with Sunhill Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services AG (VWFS). Together with APCOA, they now offer customers of all VW Group brands contactless entry and exit, as well as automated billing of parking processes in the background.

Get My Parking is backed by high profile investors including Indian Angel Networks, Chennai Angels, IndusAge Partners and sunil Munjal, among others. The startup last raised $3 million funding from BEENEXT, IAN Fund and Indian Angel Network, in September 2017. Prior to this, it raised $1.1 million in pre-series A funding round led by Indian Angel Network (IAN), BEENEXT, The Chennai Angels (TCA), and Mr. Sunil Munjal (Hero group), in February 2017.

The startup has raised a total of $4.5 million in four funding rounds.

[Top Image - From left Rasik Pansare (GMP), Chirag Jain (GMP), Philippe Op de Beeck (APCOA)]

Via - Business Wire India

India’s Smart Parking Startup To Revolutionize Parking in 13 Countries

GET MY PARKING, India's Smart parking startup, has partnered with APCOA PARKING, Europe’s leading parking operator, to customize and deploy an open IoT technology that integrates parking equipment onto a standard, interoperable platform.

With this partnership, the digital platform of New Deli-based startup will be scaled to all 13 countries in which APCOA operates more than 1.4 million car spaces at over 9000 locations. This enables APCOA to provide the latest consumer solutions such as their recently launched mobile app APCOA FLOW (www.apcoa.de/flow), which includes ticketless automated access & cashless exit. It will soon be enhanced by pre-booking options and on-street parking payment functions.

“This strategic partnership enables us to develop our digital platform and new products very quickly and cost-effectively. We are therefore in a position to offer our customers additional value: The GMP technology works with existing barrier technologies in older car parks, eliminating the need to purchase a new parking system. And the digital platform’s enhanced compatibility means that we can launch many new services and partnerships in the near future,” said Philippe Op de Beeck, CEO of APCOA PARKING Group.

Founded in 2015 by Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare, Get My Parking is organizing the parking industry with technology and data saves, It offers app that saves the trouble of looking for parking and provides real time parking information by navigating directly to available parking lot near you or your destination. We are .

“We are very excited about this collaboration, as it gives us a huge start in growing our international footprint. APCOA is the undisputed European market leader & we couldn’t have asked for a better partner to enter the western parking market” said Chirag Jain, CEO, Get My Parking. Co-founder CMO Rasik Pansare added, “APCOA's scale and size is the dream opportunity for testing our technology expertise. It is an ambitious project & we are ready for the responsibility to assist millions of European motorists.”

This partnership is a marriage of operations and technology expertise, with APCOA’s experience complimenting GMP’s innovation and agility. Leveraging this platform, APCOA will also contribute to the smart city ecosystem.

The proprietary open platform is modular and future-proof; Providers of services like car sharing services, EV charging and others can be easily integrated into the platform. The first platform driven cooperation was entered into with Sunhill Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Volkswagen Financial Services AG (VWFS). Together with APCOA, they now offer customers of all VW Group brands contactless entry and exit, as well as automated billing of parking processes in the background.

Get My Parking is backed by high profile investors including Indian Angel Networks, Chennai Angels, IndusAge Partners and sunil Munjal, among others. The startup last raised $3 million funding from BEENEXT, IAN Fund and Indian Angel Network, in September 2017. Prior to this, it raised $1.1 million in pre-series A funding round led by Indian Angel Network (IAN), BEENEXT, The Chennai Angels (TCA), and Mr. Sunil Munjal (Hero group), in February 2017.

The startup has raised a total of $4.5 million in four funding rounds.

[Top Image - From left Rasik Pansare (GMP), Chirag Jain (GMP), Philippe Op de Beeck (APCOA)]

Via - Business Wire India

Delhi Based Startup Get My Parking Bags $3 Mn From BEENEXT, IAN, Others

GetMy Parking, a Delhi-based startup providing cloud-based mobile parking technology has raised $3 million (Rs 19.2 crore) funding from BEENEXT, IAN Fund and Indian Angel Network.

Earlier in February 2017, the company raised pre-series A funding of $1.1 million (Rs.7.35 crores) from Indian Angel Network (IAN), BEENEXT, The Chennai Angels (TCA), and Sunil Munjal (Hero group). Prior to this, in January 2016, the startup had raised $0.376million (Rs.2.5 crores) from The Chennai Angels (TCA).

The company plans to use freshly infused funds to expand to more cities, both in India and overseas. Commenting on the development, Rasik Pansare, Co-founder and CMO, Get My Parking told PTI, “Parking management is still an unorganised segment in India. We are trying to digitise the demand side and we are in 300 locations in Delhi-NCR already.”  Pansare further informed that the company is also working as part of some smart city pilots like one in Navi Mumbai.

Founded by Chirag Jain, Rasik Pansare and Rahul Gupta, Get My Parking uses Internet of Things (IoT) for its smart parking platform. The startup’s platform digitises parking spaces. Its mobile app gives users a bird’s eye view of all the legal parking lots, allowing them to search, book and navigate to the relevant parking spot.

The startup claims that it currently processes about 1.7 million parking tickets a month in the Delhi-NCR region.

With the team of 60 people and plans to hire about 20 more people in the next 2-3 months, Get My Parking has already set up an international business development team that is working on expanding the company’s operations to 15 countries by March next year. The company has already entered markets like Taiwan and Indonesia and is carrying out pilots in some countries of Europe.

Currently, with the smart cities taking off rapidly, there is an urgent requirement for indigenous smart solutions that ease traffic and mobility. So apart from cashless parking management systems and mobile applications, Get My Parking has city dashboards and enforcement applications for government authorities, revenue analytics for contractors, APIs for mobility providers and hardware integrations with OEMs. But for these to be effective, different stakeholders should be brought together. So, Get My Parking has built a completely integrated IoT platform that connects all these solutions and their stakeholders seamlessly.

The rapid urbanization in developing nations like India never gave much attention to mobility planning. Get My Parking is now poised for international growth and has recently set up country partners in 2 countries. With Get My Parking maturing from a novel concept to a trusted smart parking platform, our cities finally have the data driven solutions to make urban driving hassle-free.