Smart Parking Solutions
01 Jul 2020
Sotefin Parking is now one of the market leaders in India in the design, manufacture and installation of electro-mechanised and computerised car parking systems.
Sotefin Parking (SPPL) is an Indian arm of Sotefin SA, Switzerland, founded in 1956, a world leader in the design and construction of computer controlled fully automated car parking systems holding patent since 1959. Arup Chaudhari, Founder Director, and Jignesh Sanghavi, Director, Sotefin Parking, share more on the company’s operations and plans…
Technological solutions
For more than 60 years, the company is into designing and constructing various parking systems. The technological solutions developed by Sotefin SA have remained proven solutions to various parking systems. Over the last 25 years, Sotefin SA has installed an increasing number of automated parking systems overseas and currently there are installations of more than 325 nos in over 20 countries for more than 35,000 car spaces.
Perfect blend
Sotefin Parking, as an Indian arm of Sotefin SA, started its operation in 2014. The company is driven by highly professional and specialised technocrats. The journey towards its success story in India started after successful completion of 900 cars fully underground automatic parking at Kamlanagar, Delhi, by Sotefin SA.
Sotefin India is the perfect blend of such technology, designing and manufacturing the best customised electro-mechanised and computerised car parking solutions of every possible types, for example: Fully Automatic Silomat Car Parking; Tower Parking System – Pallet and Comb type; Puzzle Type Car Parking System, etc.
Catering to market needs
The technology developed by Sotefin Parking has been designed for resolving the parking menace of the recent and future years.
The creation of the various parking solutions are based on the latest needs of the market. Sotefin India has got an edge over competitors. Here’s why:
- High product versatility allowing it to be custom or tailor-made to meet customers’ requirement. This why the company does not provide its dimensional requirements but takes customers requirement and provides solutions accordingly.
- Maximum number of project realisation in public parking, where zero downtime is maintained for greater redundancy and superior quality of the product.
- 360 degrees assistance including turnkey project execution such as civil construction, design, integration and execution.
- Post warranty, Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) entered with the customer for providing round the clock service at a nominal cost.
SPPL is the only company in the world that can conceptualise, design, integrate with any structure and execute civil structure along with parking system design and installation in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
Information and communication technologies (ICT)
With the rise of the IoT, applications have become smarter and connected devices give rise to their exploitation in all aspects of a modern smart city, and thus, modern parking. As the volume of the collected data increases, AI techniques are applied to further enhance the intelligence and the capabilities of an application. Sotefin utilises ICT so that it enhances the quality and performance of its systems such as energy and retrieval time so that there is a reduction in resource consumption, wastage, and overall costs.
Since 2014, the company is financially growing year-after-year at the rate of 50 per cent and projecting this growth to continue for long term as parking space is becoming the scarce resource in urban areas. Also, the Smart Cities mission is giving importance and priority to develop such parking systems in the smart cities proposed by the Government of India.
Recently, SPPL has bagged and is on the verge of finalising various contracts for providing parking systems globally and soon will have its presence felt in developed nations of the world.
(Communication by the management of the company)
