This new Siemens Parking system at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5, due to open next March 2008 is a god send for tired car owners. When a driver arrives at the carpark barrier, a numberplate recognition system takes the registration and automatically prints it on the ticket.
An information screen at the barrier tells the driver where to find a space and illuminated arrows on the floor act as a guide to the empty bay, which is marked by a green light above it.
The car is tracked by up to 35 infrared cameras which feed details of where it is parked into the system.
A good and fast parking space leads to more time to shop around the airport. This people are geniuses.
But the nightmare of trudging around the car park, laden with cases, looking for your car will soon be over. Heathrow is to become the world’s first airport to install technology that allows you to find your vehicle simply by inserting your parking ticket into a machine that has a 32in screen displaying a 3-D map.
New Siemens Parking system at Heathrow source
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