SKIDATA Announces Successful Deployment of ParkMobile Integration for City of Minneapolis

SKIDATA Partners with ParkMobile to Provide Mobile Payment for Parking in Minneapolis

Longtime, anchor customer – City of Minneapolis along with operator ABM have recently provided the power of mobile
payment for their thousands of daily parkers and visitors. SKIDATA deployed the MPLS Parking app powered by ParkMobile to provide this convenience for both the parker and the city at 11 of the 16 municipal garages installed by SKIDATA.

Dan Stublaski, Senior Manager, Midwest – SKIDATA, shared additional insight into this process, “The ParkMobile interface provides a best in breed experience by allowing the customer to scan their parking ticket with their ParkMobile app at any time prior to leaving the garage. The payment is applied once they insert their ticket at the exit thus allowing for faster throughput.”

Dan continued, “The City of Minneapolis and ABM are continually looking to improve the customer experience and reduce friction in the parking transaction. Our patented cloud-based validation solution, sweb.Validate, provides a better experience for both the operator and the end user.”

 The City of Minneapolis has been a SKIDATA customer for over 15 years and has grown the scope and functionality of their massive parking operation to over 200 lanes of equipment at 16 parking garages. Operated by ABM, the parking system has gone through recent upgrades and is in the process of increasing their modern functionality with the SKIDATA web based tools – sweb services.

The ParkMobile interface provides convenient and advanced functionality to simplify the experience for parkers throughout the city of Minneapolis. Additional features of the system allow for an LPR solution where the exit gate automatically vends, allowing exit once the paidplate is read.

 “We are very excited to expand our relationship with SKIDATA in the City of Minneapolis,” says Jon Ziglar, CEO of ParkMobile. “We currently have over 300,000 users in the market and now those people will have more smart parking options around the city.”

SKIDATA is passionate about its commitment to deliver superior, reliable, and trend setting solutions. We are ready to help our customers to unlock the power of SKIDATA.

About SKIDATA 

SKIDATA is an international leader in the field of access solutions and their management. Almost 10,000 SKIDATA installations worldwide in ski resorts, stadiums, airports, shopping malls, cities, spa & wellness facilities, trade fairs and amusement parks provide secure and reliable access and entry control for people and vehicles. SKIDATA places great value in providing solutions that are intuitive, easy to use, and secure. The integrated concepts of SKIDATA solutions help clients optimize performance and maximize profits. SKIDATA Group (www.skidata.com) belongs to the publicly traded Swiss Kudelski Group (www.nagra.com), a leading provider of digital security solutions.

About ParkMobile 

ParkMobile, LLC is the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in North America, helping millions of people easily find and pay for parking on their mobile device. The company’s technology is used in over 3,000 locations across the country, including 7 of the top 10 cities as well as college campuses, airports and stadiums. People can use ParkMobile solutions to quickly pay for on-street and off-street parking without having to use a meter or kiosk. Additionally, ParkMobile offers parking reservations at stadium venues for concerts and sporting events. Reservations are also available in metro area garages, allowing people to drive into the city without having to worry about finding parking. ParkMobile has been named to the Inc. 5000, Deloitte Fast 500, Entrepreneur 360 and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Pacesetter list. Additionally, the company won 2018 Stevie Awards for Most Innovative Tech Company and Best Integrated Mobile Experience. For more information, visit ParkMobile.io or @ParkMobile on Twitter.