GreenPeak, Dusun Electric Announce Smart Parking Meter App for China

Netherlands-based GreenPeak Technologies announced a Smart City-assisted parking application with Dusun Electron to address growing parking problems in large Chinese cities such as Beijing, where 5 million registered vehicles compete for 1.5 million available spaces. GreenPeak and Dusun’s smartphone app guides drivers to available parking spaces using criteria including fee and the walking distance between destination and parking space, said the companies last week. The app works with wireless sensors in parking spaces, which transmit floor and row information for available spaces through a gateway to the cloud. GreenPeak developed the sensor technology, the radio chip and the networking technology, and Dusun created the cloud infrastructure and Smart Parking application. A $25 gateway can connect up to 200 sensors, which start at $15 per unit, said Dusun.