The Sunway Group will be rolling out the Jieshun Smart Parking system to the public in early 2020 after its having been on trial since late 2018. As the partner, Jieshun, one of China’s leading smart parking solution providers, took part in the press conference recently held in Sunway City, Malaysia.
The project includes 7 parking lots with a total of 64 lanes including 32-entry and 32-exit license plate recognition controllers, 10-unit automated payment machines and a web-based parking management software which gives centralised management and monitoring for 10,000 parking spaces in multiple areas. This new project is thought to mark the country’s first and largest unified license plate recognition (LPR) system with multiple-payment options involving 10,000 car parking bays in Sunway.”
Ticketless entry/exit with LPR technology is a key feature of this project. LPR can effectively achieve hassle-free access to give an improved experience to shoppers. Each car only takes 3 to 5 seconds to pass by, which can save more than half of the time when compared with the traditional ticket parking.
Cashless mobile payment is another highlight of this smart parking system. The deployed system is able to support a wide variety of payment options including Malaysian E-wallets as well as credit and debit cards. In order to offer a smooth migration, for shoppers who do not use any E-wallets or do not have internet access, they can opt to pay with a Touch ‘n Go card or through the automated payment machines with cash as well for a period of time. Shoppers who register their car number plates during the pre-registration period will get the chance to enjoy a 1-time free parking when it is open to the public.
HC Chan, Chief Executive Officer of Sunway Malls & Theme Parks says, “We are pushing forth on our digitalisation journey. With revolutionary technology, we want to continue introducing new seamless, exciting shopping experiences to our shoppers to enable hassle-free experiences with greater convenience. From our comprehensive award winning Sunway Pyramid Mobile app with real-time navigation to this new parking system, we will continue to give our shoppers more reasons to choose us as their preferred lifestyle destination.”
Felix Zheng, the General Manager of Overseas Dept. of Jieshun says, “While smart parking has been widely used in mainland China for years, we have always been considering how to bring smart parking to Malaysia to improve the operational efficiency and enhance the driver parking experience here.
“As the leader in Smart Parking, Jieshun has a rich experience in the field with 100,000 parking lots installed globally. For this project, there are 20,000 traffic flows each day in Sunway city, thus, a robust and reliable system was our required solution design. We use a web-based parking management system to reduce the system complexity and offer a convenient log in and out any time anywhere. To ensure system stability, we have also adopted a hardware and software cluster design that balances the system’s load.”
Felix also says, “At present, our LPR accuracy rate in Malaysia is 98.5%; and in China it can reach 99.7% or even more. In the following weeks, based on AI deep learning, we aim to increase the local accuracy rate up to 99.5%.”
