New experience of smart airport in the era of smart parking 4.0

Civil Aviation Resources Network reported on August 23, 2018: Xi'an Xianyang International Airport is my country's main trunk airport and one of the top ten airports in the country. In 2017, it completed a passenger throughput of 41.857 million passengers. Currently, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport is aiming to build a "smart airport", using new information technologies to optimize production operations and improve service quality. This includes the upgrade and renovation of smart parking lots.

It is reported that previously, there were 17 parking lots within Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, with more than 6,000 parking spaces. There are a huge number of parking lots and many types of parking lots. Each parking lot is independently constructed, managed and operated independently. The charging system basically adopts the card collection method. , identification and release speeds are slow, resulting in frequent congestion in parking lots, high pressure on service guarantees, and poor car owner experience. At the beginning of 2018, Xi'an Xianyang International Airport joined hands with Xi'an Airun IoT Technology Service Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Airun IoT") to officially launch an intelligent parking management system, realizing platform management, self-service parking, self-service payment and self-service acquisition. Intelligent experiences such as invoices and self-service car search.

Picture: Li Nan, General Manager of Airrun IoT, was interviewed by a reporter from Civil Aviation Resources Network

During the 2018 Civil Aviation Trend Forum, Li Nan, general manager of Airrun IoT, told reporters from the Civil Aviation Resources Network that, in fact, parking lot management has experienced four stages of changes, from card collection and charging in the 1.0 era to automatic license plate recognition in the 2.0 era. , up to the current 3.0 era of electronic payment, now, relying on "Internet +", parking lot management has entered the 4.0 era. Smart parking is no longer just a payment problem, but through the Internet of Things technology, the entire parking lot has become an interconnected one. A data application platform to realize digital transformation and fully self-service management of parking lots.

Taking Xi'an Xianyang International Airport as an example, after the smart parking system is launched, for car owners, it can realize automatic recognition of license plates and support multiple payment methods and unmanned self-service payment in multiple scenarios. Quick parking and quick access greatly improves the car owner’s experience and improves traffic efficiency.

For airport management, all parking lot information can be collected and displayed on the smart parking platform, including empty parking space information, vehicle parking information, entry and exit information, main equipment operation information, etc., to achieve multi-platform remote control. At the same time, the platform has pioneered the integration of the airport’s monitoring, membership, finance, clearing platform, group data center and other systems to achieve information interconnection and safe visual operations, making management more efficient and providing opportunities for future airport expansion. , platform-based big data analysis and value-added services, etc., laying a good foundation.

After the upgrade, it has met the management requirements of more than a dozen parking lots with different attributes, completed automatic analysis, judgment and control of vehicle behavior in multiple parking lots through the platform, and is the first in the country to realize the effective integration and unified management and control of the platform and ETC system. . Fully self-service parking has been fully realized. The proportion of fully self-service parking with electronic payment is now close to 80%, and the entrances and exits are smooth and orderly.

During the interview, Li Nan pointed out that in addition to solving the problem of smoothness in the airport parking lot, another top priority is safety. The intelligent parking system uses industrial-grade intelligent hardware based on the Internet of Things as the core. Its long-term operation stability, anti-virus security, and maintainability are beyond the reach of ordinary personal computer systems.

It is worth mentioning that fully self-service payment also solves the pain point of obtaining invoices. Xi'an Xianyang International Airport's electronic invoices for the parking lot are now fully operational, making it the first airport in the west to obtain instant electronic invoices and fully cover all gate exits in the parking lot. Li Nan introduced that after the electronic invoice system is put into use, passengers can obtain invoices by themselves after online transactions, which is convenient and fast; the airport can also obtain real-time online data feedback, which reduces labor costs and improves operational efficiency.

At present, in addition to Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, Airrun IoT is also working with many airports such as Capital Airport, Yinchuan Airport, Yangzhou Taizhou Airport, etc. to promote the intelligent parking process. Li Nan said that in the future, they also hope to work with more people in the industry to promote the formation of a corresponding industry standard and provide more professional technical consultation and systematic and platform services for the construction of smart parking at the airport.