Presentation of ECIM common parking API specification initiative at Connected Smart Cities conference held in Brussels on the 22nd of January 2015

1. COMMON PARKING API
SPECIFICATION
GORAZD MARINIC
IMINDS BRUSSELS

2. YOU ARE GOING TO A MEETING
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... and need to find a parking space … fast …

3. YOU NEED TO…
Find destination
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Find availableparking
Pay

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“30 % of traffic is caused
by people looking for a
parking space”

5. SITUATION TODAY
• Multiple on-street and off-street parking providers
• No single overview of parking services, availability, pricing
• Each one has its own Mobile parking/payment solution
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6. TO MOVE AROUND THE CITY…
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7. CHALLENGE
One App for all parking services in a city
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Single overview of ALL parking options =>
better decision
Single registration and login
One Payment service

8. DIFFERENT SERVICE/DATA
FORMATS
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Difficult to integrate!
Proprietary
Not open

9. REQUIREMENTS
• Openness & Interoperability
• Common MARKETPLACE: easy discovery
• Data exchange – SPECIFICATIONS,
FORMATS!
• Service access
• Simplified registration and login
• Easy to use single payment
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10. SOLUTION
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ECIM
European Cloud Marketplace for
Intelligent Mobility

11. ECIM ENABLES YOU TO …
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See different options
Locate available parking
Get there
Pay with “one-click”
Multimodal

12. ECIM: PLATFORM
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Integration with service providers
One API for developers
Cloud-based, scalable
Innovation ecosystem

13. ECIM: MARKETPLACE
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Service providers can sell services
Developers can discover services
Both can monetize

14. ECIM: PAYMENT SERVICE
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One API for any kind of payment
Integrates with different payment
services
User still has a choice

15. ECIM: MOBILE APP
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16. ECIM: MOBILE APP
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Integrated different services:
on-street and off-street
parking

17. SIMPLIFIED INTEGRATION
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Common parking API
Specification
Single payment API

18. COMMON PARKING API
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/FindParking
/StartParking
/EndParking
/PayParking
Integration with
FIWARE/NGSI

19. BENEFITS OF COMMON API
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Easier integration
Faster development
Better end-user apps

20. ECIM: NOT ONLY PARKING!
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A solution for all mobility needs
Multimodality

21. ECIM: DEMO
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Check the demo during break!

22. THANK YOU!