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Top 25 Government Tech Solution Provider – CIO Magazine

Top 25 Government Tech Solution Provider – CIO Magazine

IPS Group Named Top 25 Government Tech Solution Provider by CIO Applications Magazine for their innovative technology, taking Smart Cities to the next level... If you grew up in the 1960s, chances are you may remember, “The Jetsons,” a popular animated TV series set...

Parking fee changes boost Santa Fe revenue

Parking fee changes boost Santa Fe revenue

SANTA FE – Adjustments to the parking rates in Santa Fe were overdue and necessary, resulting in a projected $900,000 annual increase in parking revenue, according to a memo from the director of the city’s parking division. The memo from Noel Correia dated Monday...

Parking Meters Collecting Change For the Homeless

Parking Meters Collecting Change For the Homeless

After you pump some quarters into your parking meter in Southern California, look for the new ones that put your change to great use: housing the homeless. Earlier this week, city and county representatives of Los Angeles unveiled six new colorful “parking meters”...

Smart parking meters are coming to downtown Metuchen

Smart parking meters are coming to downtown Metuchen

METUCHEN — The public can stop scrounging around for their quarters – smart parking meters are coming to Metuchen as early as May. The Borough Council approved the Parking Authority’s proposal to upgrade all curbside parking meters in the core of the downtown area...

How Can We Make Parking Smarter?

How Can We Make Parking Smarter?

Believe it or not, the parking industry is getting smarter. For cities hoping to integrate more smart technologies into their infrastructure, smart parking is a brilliant way to monitor, manage, and monetize parking. As automated vehicles go from vision to reality,...

Next-Generation DMS: New Features

Next-Generation DMS: New Features

IPS recently launched its Next-Generation DMS, a robust back office system that supports all applications of the IPS Smart Parking Platform. The redesigned DMS boasts a more intuitive design, and is rich in new features that allow users to customize their experience....

Business Owners Thrilled with New Parking Meters

Business Owners Thrilled with New Parking Meters

EUGENE, Ore. – Business owners in Eugene are ecstatic with the city's new plan of implementing new smart parking meters throughout downtown. City staff said 280 new meters are being installed in a 12 block area this week. They said the new meters will not only accept...

City Tests New Downtown Parking Meters

City Tests New Downtown Parking Meters

  STAMFORD — If you’ve been frustrated with the city’s parking meters in recent years, you’re not alone. The city realizes that the current meters are old, outdated, and costly to maintain. That’s why 72 new parking meters have been installed downtown along...

Oxford, MS Breaking Record Month for Revenue.

Oxford, MS Breaking Record Month for Revenue.

Even though University of Mississippi students didn’t arrive in Oxford until the second week of August, parking meters took in a record amount of revenue for the month. According to Parking Director Matt Davis, $78,793 was collected from the downtown parking meters...

Parking Sensor Technologies in Oxford

Parking Sensor Technologies in Oxford

Since 2014, the city has been using smart meters with positive outcomes, and now has its eye on sensors that can be programmed to zero out a meter when a car pulls away, for instance.

IPS Group Wins Best of Show at IPI Conference and Expo

IPS Group Wins Best of Show at IPI Conference and Expo

Every year, more than 3,000 professionals in the parking and transportation industry attend the International Parking Institute (IPI) Conference and Expo. Attendees hear from experts on the latest in parking-specific technology and network with industry leaders from...

Visa And IPS Take The Pain Out Of Parking

Visa And IPS Take The Pain Out Of Parking

There are few experiences more fiction-filled and anger-inducing than trying to find a parking space in a major metropolitan area. The circling the block — or blocks — over and over again while searching for any available space is bad enough; finally finding a metered...

IPS Detection Sensors: A Smart Way to Save

IPS Detection Sensors: A Smart Way to Save

Parking meters with vehicle detection sensors increase revenue for cities by enabling parking meters to immediately reset once a vehicle has left. Sounds like a good idea. So why would city parking managers ever choose not to install them? Until recently, the purchase...

Tucson’s Donation Stations for Homeless

Tucson’s Donation Stations for Homeless

Don’t let the colorful parking meters in downtown Tucson fool you. They are part of a serious attempt to help homeless men and women. The Tucson Change Movement unveiled the repurposed parking meters painted blue on Wednesday morning, highlighting its plans to...

Interview with David Williams for Cities

Interview with David Williams for Cities

The parking meter has been around since the 1930s, silently raising revenue for towns and cities while regulating the times and locations where drivers can park. The smart parking meters of today, though they may look nearly identical, offer a lot more “under the...

L.A. expands parking coverage

L.A. expands parking coverage

  The city is installing more parking sensors to expand LA Express Park, an app-powered, sensor-fueled smart-parking program expected to eventually cover the entire city. Craig Ishii, of the city's Japanese American Citizen's League, explains the virtues of LA...

Are in-car payments innovative?

Are in-car payments innovative?

  This is what in-car payments looks like for the driver. The payments industry loves to throw around the word innovation. We hear it so much that some of us have a hard time determining whether a product is a breakthrough that will alter this particular corner...

Montclair getting 545 solar-powered parking meters

Montclair getting 545 solar-powered parking meters

  Montclair is updating all of its public parking meters throughout town. The Township Council approved a resolution on Dec. 20 for the purchase of 545 single-space parking meters through IPS Group Inc., which was awarded a contract through a cooperative...

Vehicle Detection Revolutionizing Parking

Vehicle Detection Revolutionizing Parking

By Nicole Ybarra Technology Transformation The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the technology landscape, revolutionizing every facet of life. Smart devices collect data on the number of steps we walk, helping people live healthier lives or adjust the...

Boston turns to LA and Seattle to improve parking

  Seven years ago, Los Angeles transportation officials launched a major initiative to manage parking by increasing meter rates during higher demand. Critics in the car-loving city of 4 million grumbled, but the program worked out well — doubling parking meter...

Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

Columbia Announces Plan to Upgrade Parking Meters

  Parking in downtown Columbia will look a little different come mid-January. The city’s public works department announced Tuesday it will upgrade nearly all of the city’s downtown parking meters. The project, which comes with a roughly $475,000 price tag, will...

Report: Main Street parking meters always busy

Report: Main Street parking meters always busy

   A man checks his watch after feeding a meter on Main Street on Monday. Driving down Main Street, it’s easy to see that people like to park at the meters, but now Newark officials have the numbers to prove it. The city recently [...] Click here to view original...