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Nottingham orders 200 Metric Aura Elite parking meters

Nottingham City Council in the UK has placed an order for 200 Aura Elite pay and display parking meters manufactured by the Metric Group to replace their existing on and off street equipment. Metric, the UK’s only pay and display parking machine manufacturer, says it won the order against strong European competition. The first phase of a delivery programme for installation of the 195 solar and five mains Elite’s for on and off street parking in Nottingham will start before the end of the year.
March 27, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
4423 Nottingham City Council in the UK has placed an order for 200 Aura Elite pay and display parking meters manufactured by the 92 Metric Group to replace their existing on and off street equipment. Metric, the UK’s only pay and display parking machine manufacturer, says it won the order against strong European competition.

The first phase of a delivery programme for installation of the 195 solar and five mains Elite’s for on and off street parking in Nottingham will start before the end of the year.

Nottingham’s specification is for the Aura Elite to provide coin, chip and pin and wave and pay options to meet their city centre parking needs, and the machines will have a GPRS connection to a Back Office Web ASLAN system. The company has appointed a dedicated project manager to oversee the installation of the 200 Aura Elite’s which will also have data entry via full QWERTY alpha-numeric keypads.

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