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Swarco installs parking meters in Berlin

Swarco Traffic Systems has installed a total of 172 solar-powered ParkLine evo² parking meters in the urban district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. The meters will accept cash as well as payments by chip card, cash card or RFID card and can use either mains power or from the street lighting system with battery backup during the day. Alternatively they can be powered by a built-in solar panel. The pay display ticket machines are controlled by a central computer via GSM/GPRS.
June 22, 2015 Read time: 1 min
129 Swarco Traffic Systems has installed a total of 172 solar-powered ParkLine evo² parking meters in the urban district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.

The meters will accept cash as well as payments by chip card, cash card or RFID card and can use either mains power or from the street lighting system with battery backup during the day. Alternatively they can be powered by a built-in solar panel. The pay display ticket machines are controlled by a central computer via GSM/GPRS.

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