SenRa, a pan-India Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) provider for long range-based (LoRa®-based) Internet of Things (IoT) applications, today announced its partnership with PNI Sensor, world’s foremost expert in precision location, motion tracking, and fusion of sensor systems into real-world applications, to bring Smart Parking solutions to India. This coalition between the two companies combines LoRaWAN™ technology, connectivity and an end-to-end Smart Parking solution.
The partnership prospects to cater smart parking solutions with PNI’s PlacePod®, an IoT-enabled smart parking sensor, ensuring faster enactment in the Indian market. PNI’s PlacePod® has got a meticulous magnetic sensing system for vehicle detection with high performance magnetic sensor which accurately detects the presence or absence of a car in a parking space.
Parking is one of the essential components of development plans of various cities in India. The number of vehicles in India is projected to grow at an annual rate of 9-11 percent over the next five years. As per Indian Road Congress (IRC) Standards, a vehicle takes 25 square meters of space on average. Unfortunately, due to lack of resources and technological intervention to monitor parking, enforcement has become weak in most of the cities in India leading to traffic congestion and parking management challenges. SenRa’s commercial grade LoRaWAN™ network combined with PlacePod smart parking sensors are taking a step forward by solving the most critical aspects of parking management and unauthorised parking including accurate, real-time vehicle detection and location of available parking spaces with data validation and real time tracking. SenRa has already successfully finished tests with the PlacePod smart parking sensor. It can be easily mounted in the ground and stays unaffected by the change in weather.
The LoRaWAN™ enabled PlacePod is a high-accuracy parking sensor with a long battery life allowing smart cities, residential areas, universities, parking authorities and city planners to harness the benefits of SenRa’s long range, low power commercial grade network to make data-driven decisions.
“We were looking for a partner who can bring high quality LoRaWAN™ parking sensors that can handle extreme weather conditions. We found that with PNI,” said SenRa’s Chief Executive Officer, Ali Hosseini. “PNI is one of the first companies in the LoRaWAN ecosystem to deploy smart parking solutions across the globe. We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring their technology to India.”
