Excuse Me, My Parking Meter is Calling Me

Imagine your parking meter being able to send you a warning that it is about to expire -- or being able to add time to your parking meter from wherever you are just by calling your cell phone. And wouldnt it be so much more convenient if you could just slide your credit card through the meter instead of searching for the right coins and inserting them!

Well, those features and more are now available for parking meter users, along with new capabilities for those in charge of administering them, with the merged creation of Duncan Solutions, Inc. the first company to provide such a large and diversified umbrella of products and services for the parking and enforcement industries.

Under that umbrella are single-space and multiple-space coin-operated parking meters, new credit card and cell phone payment meters, meters that cover up to 10 parking spaces, meter and enforcement management software that allows administrators to know instantly if a meter is broken or being tampered with, citation processing and collection services, outbound phone calls and mailings to assist municipalities with collecting delinquent fines, and even lending programs for financially-strapped communities with parking equipment and service needs.

One of the companys newest products is the AutoCITEOX3, the only integrated, handheld, Windows-based computer ticket writer that can communicate directly with parking meters to determine the status of every parking space as well as check on a vehicles history of tickets. The companys new cell phone payment feature, mPARK, allows people to add time to computerized parking meters from any location by simply calling on their cell phone to an account previously set up for such charges. To help parking users even more, the meter itself can send a text message to a persons cell phone to indicate that just a few minutes remain before the meter expires. The person can then simply respond to the message and add more time.

Perhaps sometime soon you will find one of Duncan Solution's innovative parking meters in your city!