METRIC IS BUSY IN BEDFORD

Metric is busy in Bedford with pay on foot and pay and display parking. The Swindon-based terminal manufacturer has been centralising two pay on foot sites to one control centre. Bedford Borough Council required a centralised pay on foot system to link all their multi storey car parks together and then have the operational and managerial systems reporting back to one location within the Borough Hall. The Council chose Metric’s Xparc system for its modern appearance and the flexibility the system can offer in payment and reporting features. The barcode style Xparc system has proved to be a very reliable choice giving Bedford Borough Council the flexibility and reliability required in busy town centre car parks. Bedford’s River Street multi storey car park is the latest car park to have the Metric Xparc pay on foot system installed and connected to their centralised system enabling three multi storey car parks to be all run from the one location. All of the entry, exit and pay stations are fitted with covert CCTV cameras. Metric say these can be used both as a management tool or to further enhance security within the car parks. At the same time, Bedford Borough Council has recently completed the installation of more than 60 Elite pay and display parking terminals replacing an aging stock of machines. Again, these terminals are all linked via GPRS to the Metric hosted WebAslan Back Office system. Full management, auditing or operational functions can be carried out remotely via the hosted WebAslan system. Both WebAslan and the Xparc systems can generate regular pre-programmed spreadsheet reports showing sales and time band analysis versus payments which can then be produced in Microsoft Excel format to be more compatible with other reports required by the Council.

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