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Solar-Powered smart parking meter from Portland

Sameer Kumar — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:34:14 +0000

Parking meters are most often more of a headache than anything else. While they might be necessary, they also are the easiest way to get a ticket against your name. Miss putting a coin by a minute and boom, you have a piece of paper in your hand...

Solar Powered Parking Meters To Send SMS

Lakshmi — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:24:47 +0000

Sussex, is all set to go hi-tech soon. the town is about to receive, solar-powered armoured parking meters which send text messages. These machines have their own SIM cards. These hi-tech boxes, will text a control centre when their...

Solar Parking Meters in U.K. suffering from gloomy weather

Jolly — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:56:50 +0000

Mendip District of Somerset in Southwest England will soon be getting more than 50 new parking meters and more than half of them will be solar powered. The meters are a part of a £170,000 investment by the local council after vociferous...