Options
The Robotic Parking System offers an array of options to provide additional income for owners and enhance users’ experience.
Mobile App
The Robotic Parking System phone app can be used to trigger the storage and retrieval process. The automated system can also be integrated with various payment options using either credit card or on-line transactions.
Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Robotic Parking Systems consistently offers its clients options that integrate with the latest transportation technologies. The optional Robotic Parking electric vehicle charging station is available with the fully automated parking system. Once an electric car is driven into and parked in the terminal and the charging cord connected between the vehicle and the pallet. The system can charge the vehicle using a ‘Level 2’ system at the parking slot.
Once a vehicle is charged, the Robotic Parking System can automatically move the car from the charging station into a non-charging slot to make room for other vehicles to be charged. In this way fewer charging stations can be utilized to charge more cars.
EVC’s can be added at a later date depending upon the available electrical supply.
Pallet Cleaning System
A Pallet Cleaning System is automatically integrated into the system if a project is located in a region that regularly receives snow and ice.
This vacuum system cleans the pallets as needed after a car exits from the entry / exit terminal. This action is particularly critical during the winter season to remove snow and ice. The inside of the Robotic Parking Systems’ garage must remain above freezing to ensure fluids can be removed from the pallet and tires do not become frozen to the pallet.
Integrated, Automated Car Wash
Robotic Parking Systems uses leading brushless car wash manufacturers for optional integration into our fully automated parking system. One such product that we have installed is the MARK VII brushless portal with auto drying system.
The car wash performs the wash procedure through software embedded commands. Robotic Parking Systems recommends implementing the car wash together with a full water recycling system that only uses five liters (about 1.5 gallons) of fresh water per one car wash. The remaining water needed will be used from fully recycled water that is stored in nearby tanks.
Container Storage
Unused parking spaces can be easily transformed into storage with containers that can be climate controlled for storage of household goods or office records, merchandise or even cold storage.. Containers are transported to and from the terminals for easy loading / unloading.
The storage containers are the same dimensions (7 ft 4 in x 19 ft x 6 ft. 8 in. / 2,235 mm x 5,791 mm x 2030 mm) as the vehicle pallets making the system components fully modular and interchangeable. Containers can be compartmented into various sizes as well as equipped with shelves. This provides extreme flexibility for large and small storage needs.
Users can load goods into the container directly from the car — the container will be brought to the customer in the terminal area. There is no need to load the goods on carts and wind through long aisles or go up and down elevators to arrive at your designated storage bin.
This feature can be added later after the system is operational. It can also be combined with our Loading / Unloading Terminals.
FIRE BOX™
Electric vehicles are powered by lithium-ion batteries, known for their high energy density and efficiency. However, they also pose a risk of thermal runaway, a phenomenon where the battery’s temperature rapidly increases, potentially leading to a fire. This can be triggered by several factors, including manufacturing defects, physical damage, overcharging, or exposure to high temperatures or flooding, etc.
Robotic Parking Systems’ FIRE BOX represents a groundbreaking advancement in addressing the risks associated with EV battery fires in parking structures. Unlike traditional firefighting methods, the FIRE BOX aims to prevent a fire from escalating (spreading to other vehicles) by swiftly relocating the vehicle to a safe, controlled environment.
Loading and Unloading Terminals
To avoid compromising peak traffic (the number of cars in and out per hour) by car owners loading and unloading their cars, in the fully automated parking system, Robotic Parking Systems developed special Loading & Unloading Terminals that can be installed on the side of the actual drive-in terminals. These specialized terminals are for the user’s convenience for loading or unloading the car, or in case someone forgot something in the vehicle after it has already been transferred inside the system. Vehicles cannot be driven off these terminals, and they are only accessible through a man door.
Advanced Security
For applications that require high security, Robotic Parking Systems can install an extremely sensitive drive through portal which detects narcotics, explosives, radioactive materials, plastic weapons and even people hidden inside trunks. The security portal would be installed in the driveway to the Robotic Parking System just prior to driving into the entry / exit terminals. The security portal creates photo-like gamma-ray images revealing the threats. One such system is the Z Portal.
Are you interested in learning if a fully automated parking system is right for your project? Architects, investors, developers and consultants looking for parking solutions can contact us and receive initial designs for a parking system specific to your project at no cost.