This is how we build the shared garages of the future

Today 80% of Norway’s population lives in cities and towns, and growth is expected to increase in the near future. At the same time, the means of transport of the future are changing. Growing cities need efficient and dynamic use of the space beneath them. We need holistic measures and integrated collaboration to become functional and sustainable.

Parqio eliminates the garage gate as a barrier, as residents’ needs evolve. We offer a digital garage key that lets you open the garage gate automatically — regardless of your mode of transport. This is how we can move from private garages to large shared garages.

Automatic gate opening without a camera

Forget remote controls and licence-plate recognition. Automatic gate opening without a camera eliminates the garage gate as a barrier in a completely new way. The technology works by replacing the camera with geo-positioning of the user’s mobile phone.

When a user’s phone approaches the garage, the gate opens automatically once you’re close enough. The phone can stay safely in your pocket or bag, and the app doesn’t even need to be open.

The combination of mobile-phone positioning and our own algorithms ensures that the gate only opens when a user with access intends to drive into the garage.

A safe and secure solution

With a digital garage key from Parqio, you always have control over who has access to the garage, and only open for those with valid access. The user’s mobile phone doesn’t communicate directly with the gate, but goes via Parqio’s platform.

Enabling greener mobility choices

New technology makes it possible to develop smart, forward-looking cities. Even so, technology is only a means. We have to use new technology in a smart way to make cities better places to live, reside and work in.

Today more residents use bicycles to and from work, and car-sharing cars when they drive the kids to activities. A remote control sitting in the car’s dashboard or in a jacket pocket works poorly for that.

Efficient construction of cycle paths in cities is a sustainable measure. At the same time, it’s important to factor in that a bike trip starts and ends where you park the bike. If we’re to make it easy and attractive to choose the bike over the private car, we have to eliminate barriers like the garage gate.

Open neighbourhoods and large shared garages

Sustainable cities are characterised by being dense, urban and diverse. When we live more closely together, other people come closer and differences become more visible. That’s why it’s important that garages and common areas are universally designed so they can be used by everyone.

With automatic gate opening, the garage gate can open automatically — not just for cars, but for all modes of transport. Whether you arrive on a motorcycle, a cargo bike, in a car-sharing car, or want the taxi driver to take you all the way into the garage.

With new technology we can counteract tendencies toward closed neighbourhoods and divided cities, and create open neighbourhoods everyone can take part in. This is how we can work with diversity rather than against it.

Together we create large shared garages. Together we create open neighbourhoods. Together we create sustainable cities.