Tenaga introduces Solar Powered Parking Meter in partnership with Sweden’s CALE Access
Thursday, 20 March 2014 00:00
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Tenaga Car Parks Ltd., the pioneer in providing parking and traffic management solutions in Sri Lanka, entered into a partnership with CALE Access, the renowned Swedish innovator who specialise in innovations related to improving products for parking, public transport and entry fees. The MoU regarding the partnership was singed recently by Tenaga Car Parks Managing Director Duminda Jayathilake and CALE Access Head of Representative Office Alain Taher Osterlind.
Under the partnership, Tenaga will focus on installing one of the latest and most sought after products of CALE, the CWT Compact - a solar powered parking meter, in order to improve parking facilities around the city of Colombo. As the pilot project the CWT Compact would be installed on a street operated by Tenaga where after the initial success, the facility would be expanded to other areas as well.
“In keeping with Sir Lanka’s plan of innovation and progress, we decided to partner with CALE to bring innovation to the parking industry,” said Jayathilake. “We think this drive would add a lot of value to the parking industry in Sri Lanka as parking will become a major issue in the next few years to come, with all the developments that are happening in Colombo and suburban Colombo. That is why we are doing a pilot project of three machines and with the success of the pilot project; Tenaga will endeavour to partner with government bodies and organisations to implement the project on a PPP (Public Private Partnership) basis.”
Further, Tenga hopes to partner with a leading telecommunication provider to bring a wide array of value added services through the network of parking machines in the near future.
“CALE is chosen by many because of innovation and years of experience,” said Alain Taher Osterlind, head of Representative Office of CALE Access. “Because when you are at a new city, a new country, they need a company with expertise as you don’t have time for failing. That is where CALE comes in and the CWT is an important machine as it allows total control of the parking with its centralised system. Another important aspect is that it would help to reorganise the parking in the city to avoid road congestion. Further, later on these machines can also be used as pay stations to pay bus tickets or utility bills as well.”
