JVES (Joint Ventures Electronic Services), in association with Park with Spark, recently completed the first installation of its parking guidance system (PGS) in Arbour square, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
As a contract manufacturer with a wide service range, JVES is a development house with a modern manufacturing facility under one roof. “In fact,” says the company’s design engineer, Danny Marom, “we have developed all of the products that we manufacture for our customers. Furthermore, as our name implies, in many cases we carried most of the development cost.
Occasionally JVES identifies niches and opportunities, and then develops its own products. The PGS is one such product. Right at the feasibility study stage of the project it was clear that the major cost of all the existing parking guidance systems lies with their installation, wiring, commissioning, mapping and site-dedicated software. JVES therefore designed its system ‘backwards’, by first defining the most cost-effective installation and wiring. It then developed the hardware and software to suit, bringing its price per bay to half the price of any existing system, according to JVES.
The PGS bay monitors consume only 20 mA at 15 V and use a daisy chain communication architecture. These two properties bring the number of sensors that can be connected to one data buffer and power supply unit to 256. Another innovation is an ‘auto mapping’ utility which eliminates the need for unit address and the need for site-mapping, making the commissioning effort close to nil.
As an even more advanced feature, the system allows up to eight logical zones to be defined and up to 256 bay monitors, 24 guiding lights and 12 numeric displays can be connected and managed by a single data buffer unit without the need to write a single line of code.
Park with Spark and JVES are already in contact with a few prospective customers in South Africa and are confident that 2012 will see more installations. Plenty of overseas interest has also apparently also been garnered.
According to Clinton Alley from Park with Spark, “We see a growing trend locally and overseas towards bay monitoring systems. In fact in Europe most new projects are specified with bay monitoring by the architects at the design stage. Such systems make the parking experience so much easier while providing our IT department with essential statistics that we can then use to utilise the parking areas more efficiently. We believe that in a decade most underground parking lots will be equipped with bay monitoring systems and we will be part of this development.”
Says Marom, “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Park with Spark for the support. In them, we found an innovative team that looks at parking more seriously than most of us. We also would like to thank Gary Vipond from the Billion Property group who trusted us and Park with Spark with this pilot installation.”
For more information contact JVES, +27 (0)11 887 7222, [email protected], www.jves.co.za
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