Pay Station Integration
ParkTrak Pro offers Pay Station Integration Solutions to integrate your pay stations and enforcement including real-time wireless space data, consolidated reporting, citation payment options with online web technologies to reduce costs and increase revenues. ParkTrak online web services utilizes XML messaging that integrates with your systems.
ParkTrak and Digital Payment Technologies
ParkTrak Inc. and Digital Payment Technologies (DPT) have partnered together to make your life easier by integrating ParkTrak’s parking enforcement systems with DPT’s LUKE and SHELBY pay stations. With this integration, you can reduce your enforcement costs, improve your collections, and simplify your management.
Enforcement Applications
The integration between your pay stations and enforcement systems can deliver new possibilities to your operation.
Real-time Wireless Space Data
In Pay-by-Space environments you will be able to wirelessly deliver pay station space data to third-party enforcement devices rather than manually print enforcement reports from each pay station. Reduce staffing requirements, save time and increase the number and accuracy of citations.
Consolidated Reporting
Pay station transactions and citation payments may now be consolidated into a single report. Accounting and operation personnel can access one system for reporting purposes resulting in easier operations and better audit and internal control.
Expanded Citation Payment Options
Citations will soon be paid at the pay station using any of the pay methods available – credit cards, bills, or coins. By offering a discounted citation rate for immediate payment, you can increase collection compliance, increase convenience to parkers and generate revenue faster.
Enforcement Integration Benefits
- Reduce costs through more efficient operations
- Increase quality and quantity of citations
- Increase revenues with more time to patrol lots
- Simplify your management reporting and analysis
Technology Integration
Integration between ParkTrak’s enforcement systems and DPT’s pay stations and is facilitated by Web Services technology. Web Services allows pay stations, connected through DPT’s Enterprise Management System (EMS), to talk to complementary web-based parking technologies such as ParkTrak’s enforcement systems and handheld devices.
Web Services utilizes a standardized XML messaging system to encode all communications to the Web Service. For example, ParkTrak’s handheld devices would invoke a Web Service by sending an XML message, and then wait for a corresponding XML response. This exchange of information would include stall valid and expiry times and specific stall numbers to enable real time enforcement.
All communications are in XML. Therefore Web Services are not tied to any one operating system, platform or programming language – Java can talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with UNIX applications, and handheld units can talk directly to the EMS server.
Network Components
The delivery of applications connecting the pay station to enforcement systems requires the following network components:
- DPT’s LUKE or SHELBY pay station
- DPT’s Enterprise Management System (EMS)
- Subscription to DPT’s Web Services
- ParkTrak Wireless Handheld Enforcement Devices5. Network Connectivity (*GPRS, CDMA, 802.1 1b/g Wi-Fi, Metro-scale, Wi-Fi, Ethernet)
Why go with ParkTrak?
- Parking experience spanning three decades.
- Superior service and support.
- Constant development and up-dates to keep pace with the ever changing parking industry.
- Constant development and up-dates to keep pace with the ever changing parking industry.
- On-site training with follow up training sessions available.