Feb 12, 2008

Parking Garage Offers Energy Savings

"Ol' Blue Eyes" might be smiling up in heaven. His hometown, Hoboken, New Jersey, has just opened a state of the art automated parking facility that doesn't just offer citizens a place to park, but also an opportunity to save fuel. 

By adapting the technology of automated logistics and warehousing, Unitronics P2 Automated Parking solution uses computer-controlled motorized vehicles including lifts, conveyors and shuttles to transport passenger cars from the arrival level to a parking space and vice versa. All this is accomplished without human assistance via a centralized software system. The garage can accommodate 314 cars.

"Due to the current energy and fuel crisis, as well as the sub-prime housing catastrophe, there is a sudden rise of citizens moving from the suburbs to more densely populated urban cities. As a result, automated parking solutions in these overcrowded cities are needed more than ever before," said Haim Shani, CEO, Unitronics. "As with the Hoboken project, we are committed to continuing to build superior automated parking facilities in the U.S. market that are cost-effective and very beneficial for citizens, create a new revenue stream for local governments, and help to reduce the amount of fuel being used, thus conserving energy to ensure a greener environment and contribute to solving the fuel/gas crisis."

No word on if the parking garage might also help cure cancer.