1. Centralization of Parkings
REUS
Leo Blázquez

2. Index
•AMERSAM
•Centralization?
•Case Study in Reus
•Benefits received
•Application to smartcities
•References

3. AMERSAM
is the municipal company that
manages the off-street and on-street
parking in the city of Reus (>100.000
people)
It is part of the Economic Group of municipal
Reus City Council

4. AMERSAM
Markets
•2 Food Markets
•2 Street Markets
•1 Wholesale Market
Parkings
•On-Street (2.000 spaces)
(50% street + 50% areas )
•Parking (2.300 spaces)
(7 car parks)

5. Municipal Parkings Reus
Very commercial city with few parking
spaces in the center and a complicated
movement.
Progressive center pedestrianization:
on-street parking areas displaced to the
periphery.
Most car park are of small size.

6. Municipal Parkings Reus
From the 7 parking AMERSAM network, only 2
are >300 spaces (2.300 total)
It required a management model that would
minimize operating costs, especially in the
parking lots of small dimension

7. Centralization?
Wikipedia: is the process by which the activities of an
organisation, particularly those regarding planning and
decision-making, become concentrated within a
particular location and/or group
•Centralize what?
–Surveillance and customer: 24hx7d
–Ticketing management: rotation / subscribers
–Building Control
•Lighting, Ventilation energy efficiency smart
•Fire systems
•Access Control, intercom, CCTV, piped music
•Monitor lifts state
–Miscellaneous Sensors (IoT : internet of things)

8. Centralization
•How centralize?
–Identifying the various subsystems
–Talking with suppliers (not captive: vendor locking)
• OPEN SYSTEMS please!
–Integrating communication protocols
• Not the how? but what?
–Using standard tools of market
• SCADA
• Programmable controllers (PLCs)
• Databases Reporting  Business Intelligence

9. Centralization
•When we centralize?
–‘ASAP’ : As soon as possible  Operating Account
–When ready each subsystem
•Indispensable reliable connectivity (VPN, ADSL, WiMAX …)
•Sizing equipment for eventualities
–Minimum 2 cash machines
•Ensuring access if necessary attendance: telefon retainer.
•Upgrade/migrate facilities (installations)
–Elements for electricity regulation
–IP Telephony

10. •Is operating every day of the year
•Monitors in real time the movements of users
(parking, on-street parking, urban transport)
over 31.000 users / day
•Remotely monitor status of various centers
SCADA system receives more than 4.000 simultaneous signals

11. CCC : Centro Control Central

12. CCC : Centro Control Central

13. CCC : Centro Control Central

14. CCC : Centro Control Central

15. Benefits received
•Business operating account: HHRR
•Data collection (Business Intelligence)
–Data  Information  Knowledge
Management
•Ability to provide better products
–Very attractive tariff policy
•Parkings 1st ring (center): 8 € /day max
•Parkings 2n ring : 5 € /day
–Subscribers multiparking

16. Application to smartcities
•If we have centralized parking, we can
centralize…
–A street?
–A library?
–¿…? (any other type of building)
The concept should be the same
•From smart-parking to smart-city

17. References
http://bit.ly/amersambeckhoff

18. References

19. References

20. References
http://www.igs-software.es

21. Thank you!
leo.blazquez@amersam.com
@leoblazquez