GANIS SYSTEMS IN THE NEWS

March 2007 - Smart Park is particularly popular with vendors, realty companies and people who have meetings downtown
That gadget saves drivers money by allowing them to pay only for the time they are actually parked, instead of paying for time left on the meter when they drive away. It eliminates the chance the meter will run out before more money can be added. And the gadget eliminates the need to tote buckets filled with quarters to park around the city. That gadget is the In-Car Parking Meter.

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January 31st 2007 - New cooperation between Lolatech and Ganis to provide an enforcement solution for the Comet

Ganis Systems Ltd., a supplier  of personal parking meter hardware and software, and Lolatech Ltd  a  provider of advanced municipal and  parking enforcement solutions have announced the introduction of a new GPRS based enforcement system based on the Pelepark system developed by Lolatech Ltd. The new system will allow an efficient control of the Comet personal parking meter.  Click here for the full article

January 2007 - The Comet hits the streets in the US
The Comet is now being promoted in the US by Login Parking, a leading parking company in the USA.  Login Parking have adopted a new sales strategy where they will rent the Comet out to any interested customer for a small monthly fee and will manage the whole system over the Internet.  For more information on Login Parking or to start a trial in the USA, please visit their new site - www.loginparking.com 

January 2007 - Santa Cruz is loving using Smart Park
The University of California, Santa Cruz campus is starting a Smart Park trial in order to offer a fair payment solution to its part time and off site staff.  The pilot is due to run until the end of March 2007.  A great amount of interest has been shown so far.

December 2006 Comet on trial in Helsinki, Finland

The city of Helsinki in Finland has authorised the use of Comet personal parking meters in the city center.  The Comet will provide a solution for busy city center parkers who want the convenience of the personal parking meters.  The trial will run throughout the winter and the customers will be able to add parking time to their devices through a specially designed Internet site.  

November 2006 Comet hits the streets of Binghamton!

Following the success of the trial that was run at the University of Binghamton, the parking department has decided to authorise the use of Comets personal parking meters on campus.  The Comet is a state-of-the-art personal parking meter that is managed and loaded over the Internet. 

Spark on Campus!
Dan Chambers, deputy chief of University Police, notes that the cost of the device compares favorably to buying $5 day passes to park on campus – and to tickets, which cost $20 at an expired meter or $25 for being in a lot without a permit. They also eliminate the familiar search for quarters required for many traditional parking meters.  The bright-yellow personal meters, roughly the size of a cell phone, hang inside the driver’s window. Drivers activate the meters when they leave their cars and turn them off when they return, so they never pay for unused time if a class or meeting is cancelled. And, unless the prepaid meter is running low on time, they’re certain to avoid a ticket for an expired meter too.

“This way you’re only paying for exactly what you use,” Chambers said. “As soon as you get back, you can turn it off.”  Click here for the full article


Binghamton University is attempting to make on- campus parking easier for visitors by offering personal parking meters

BU is using the most basic version of the device in the pilot program, said Dan Chambers, the university's deputy chief of police.  More advanced versions allow drivers to buy as much -- or as little -- time as they want.

"A lot of community members come to walk to the track or the nature preserve," Chambers said."They don't have a registered car on campus and it costs $5 a day to park, but they're only here for an hour."

Binghamton University is the first college in the Northeast to use the devices.

The new Spark Personal Parking Meter has been introduced to several cities in Argentina.  Acceptance of this alternative payment system has been very high and our partner Normar s.l.r. is delighted with the progress made so far.  Click on the icons to see the articles and advertisements in Spanish
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Wellington - $500,000 of income in from Smart Park alone! June 3rd, Dominion Post

New scheme a hit with businesses, and lucrative for council.  PARKING change is for chumps. The parking elite around Wellington are renting their own meters — to go inside the car.  Two years after being introduced, Smart park meters are pulling in nearly $500,000 for Wellington City Council.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison: New Parking Meters Encourages Alternative Transportation
May 11th 2006, Channel 3000, Faced with buying a full-year parking pass, the program allows employees who usually bike or who take a bus or van pool to get a meter and a prepaid card. They use the yellow device only on days when they need to take a car to work.
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WCBS 880 - Radio interview with Gridlock Sam on the benefits of personal parking meters
NEW YORK (AP/WCBS Audio)  - Parking meters are about to become a thing of the past. The in-vehicle parking meter - already popular in Europe and being successfully tested in several American cities, is coming...
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More cities are using personal parking meters! Parking network 
May 4th 2006, Parking meters have made a huge stride in recent years, with some of them such as the pay... providing increasing convenience to change-starved consumers...

Parkers can now take their time! USA TODAY
May 3rd 2006, In-car meters allow motorists to prepay; cities like them, too! Buffalo have been using Ganis' Smart Park meters since 2004 and have just started an intensive campaign to promote them to all city center motorists.

Len Sciolino, Director of Parking Enforcement in Buffalo says "Besides making it convenient, we want people to come downtown and spend money.  I do see a definite increase in parkers coming downtown.”

"Beyond providing convenience to drivers, the in-car units cut the costs of maintenance and repairing vandalism to street meters and reduce the number of workers collecting coins. They also help boost parking revenue: Cities lose money when drivers don't pay or avoid paid street parking completely.
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Smart Park in Buffalo, USA
"This is the type of innovative approach to parking in the city that will make Buffalo more accessible," he said while explaining the initiative Wednesday outside the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute on Ellicott Street... You can purchase Smart Park directly from Buffalo City Council! 
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New representation in KOREA!

Ganis is proud to announce that it has signed a new distribution agreement with the leading Korean company Kite Trading Co. & Daeju Corp.   Kite Trading Co. will be promoting the use of personal parking meters across Korea. For more information in Korean!
Please visit their new site 

Ganis Smart Park on the evening news in Wellington New Zealand

Park Smarter with Smart Park Company Vehicle Magazine, New Zealand

The days of petty cash payouts for parking are now gone, thanks to the Smart Park in-vehicle parking meter. Let’s suppose that your company has a number of sales reps, service personnel, technicians or others whose duties involve them regularly visiting the CBD. With a Smart Park meter, those drivers will have the freedom to park anywhere around town that is controlled by on-street meters – without any need to carry coinage or risk the wrath of the meter-minder.
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Parking device first step in no-coin parking. Dominion Post, Wellington

The Aussies might have swiped pavlova and they got one over us with that underarm ball. But they don’t have smart parking. In an Australasian first, Wellington motorists will be able to pay for parking using a new prepaid card method from Monday....
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In-car meters taken up in Canadian mountains

Last December residents of Canada's skiing city Whistler B.C., were able to take up the offer of a council operated scheme to utilise in-car meters for parking payment. 
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SmartPark - Fort Lauderdale

The City of Fort Lauderdale Parking Services Division has introduced a new in-car parking meter that’s sure to take the hassle out of your parking experience around town. Smart Park, a small pocket calculator-size electronic device, is now available. 
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Portable parking meters unveiled, University of Massachusetts

Parking Services is conducting a pilot program with the Ganis Smart Park system - a portable meter that has been widely used in Europe where it is a leading portable, electronic parking meter operated within a parked vehicle.
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