Robot-style parking

Finding a safe and proper parking lot is always an urgent need in urban areas when the number of vehicles circulating on the street has never tended to stop, if not to increase to a dizzying level. Building a traditional-style public car park in the context of increasingly expensive land prices has long ceased to be in the minds of planners or real estate investors .

Building a multi-storey car park was once considered a solution (in the 20th century), but it was met with limitations. Due to the space available for elevators, slopes and exits, each parking lot has a limited use area compared to flat parking. Some people are afraid to drive into the high-rise parking lot because in fact, such dimly-lit places have been the scene of many kidnappings, murder and robberies. Thanks to a parking attendant is also a solution, but make sure that it is a hotel, parking or nightclub employee ., and that person must be trusted otherwise, like ' delivering eggs to evil .

Currently, automatic parking systems (CTDs) are being considered as both a road for investors (by maximizing the use of space) and the driver (because it is safer and easier to use. because there is no need to drive in the yard personally. This type of parking is also called an automobile storage because the technology behind it comes from the control system of materials used in workshops and warehouses.

In the world there are many companies that manufacture TTXTs, including U-ParkIt in New Zealand and Stolzer Parkhuas of Germany, however, the principle of operation of all these systems is the same.The driver drove to the coupon (just like taking a parking ticket at a traditional parking lot), then pulled down the glass door to receive a ticket or give a credit card through the scanner. Instead of having to pass many ramps and turns to find a parking lot like in a normal parking lot, here the driver just gets off the bus and turns out. Everything has a robot. Within 2 minutes, the vehicle and floor (which the vehicle is stopping) will be lifted or lowered into the storage area and put into each parking lot. Since there are no people in and out, the parking lot does not have elevators, ramps or emergency stairs, and the cars are properly matched by robots.

Automated parking model with a capacity of up to 200 cars by Robotic Parking Systems.(Photo: Cnet)

But like any new technology, the CBA may fail. The first American car park in Hoboken (New Jersey) went up to the front in 2004 when the Cadillac Deville did not have people " flying " from the 6th floor to the ground. A year later, also in this parking lot, the Jeep was thrown from the fourth floor. However, Robotic Parking Systems supplier - newly chosen to build the world's largest auto garage in Dubai - insisted that the car was less more likely to be damaged than when in a normal parking lot. The problem is whether customers are willing to give their precious car to the robot?

'Adapting to this technology is almost the same as getting acquainted with an automated teller machine (ATM), which takes time before people feel comfortable with this convenient and safe service. " Ari Milstein, executive director of Automotion Parking Systems, explains.

According to Milstein, an automatic parking lot has a capacity of 2 to 3 times more than the usual parking area.'The whole system has no access and always has a 24/7 surveillance system. The only door has an alarm system, ' Milstein stressed the security benefits of the CTD.

THIEN LAM