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WPS wins quintet of new car park contracts from Q-Park

UK car parking equipment manufacturer WPS has installed its ParkAdvance technology at five Q-Park car parks in Sheffield’s city centre. ParkAdvance is a pay-on-foot system that features a new IP-based operating system architecture that enables the parking system to simply and directly connect with multiple technologies being deployed in car parks both now and in the future.
May 4, 2017 Read time: 1 min
UK car parking equipment manufacturer 7855 WPS has installed its ParkAdvance technology at five 182 Q-Park car parks in Sheffield’s city centre.


ParkAdvance is a pay-on-foot system that features a new IP-based operating system architecture that enables the parking system to simply and directly connect with multiple technologies being deployed in car parks both now and in the future.

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