Smart Parking News

Parking problems have always been an issue since the very first automobiles were invented. But it got even worse with the progressing urbanization and population expansion. Today in the US, for example, there are 8 parking spots for every car, parking lots on the average cover about 30% of cities, and collectively take up

With all the advances in the automotive industry that we’ve seen in the past decade, finding a parking spot is still as frustrating as ever. Today, we see how technology has reshaped completely the taxi sphere, and autonomous cars are no longer a science fiction, and just a matter of a few years. Automation continues

The future of parking is smart and frictionless! In his interview, Yury Birchenko, CTO and Founder of Nwave shares the story of bringing true digital transformation to parking and urban mobility. The unmatched, in many criteria, sensor technology stands as a leader of vehicle detection, bringing easy and stress-free experience for both drivers and parking

The August 2018 issue of Parking Today magazine includes an article by Nwave’s very own Patrick Noon. Check out this short summary: For many municipalities, parking management is becoming a tougher challenge year after year. The advent of ride-sharing, delivery services of all types, elimination of parking minimums at high density housing developments, and increased

Over the past decade, technological advances and shifts in social attitudes have dramatically changed the way we view urban mobility. The transformation of the auto industry has affected not only the way we move from point A to point B, but it also has left a significant impact on energy companies, insurers, health care, the

Object recognition (r)evolution In this age of rapidly advancing and ever-accelerating technological progress, many ideas deemed impossible yesterday are transformed into reality today. In the domain of object detection, for example, Google’s best algorithms could only recognize a cat in a photo “just” 70% of the time in 2012. Now, Google’s AI is able

Foreword Opening the business series of blog publications focused on real-time parking management, we thought it would be best to begin by outlining quality and up-to-date perspectives of industry professionals, rather than describing our own view of the space at length. The smart parking space is very broad and information sometimes seems fragmented, so

At Nwave we are starting off a series of blog articles on one of the key Smart City concepts – real-time parking management. There is quite a lot to discuss about both business and technology. The tech topics include low-power radio communication systems, the physics behind vehicle detection, choice of most appropriate sensor installation method,