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30092009170 | APT SKIDATA COMPLETES HAT-TRICK OF UPGRADES FOR BAA

APT SkiData has completed final works on the third of three complete system upgrades and expansions at all of BAA's London Airports – Heathrow,

APT SKIDATA COMPLETES HAT-TRICK OF UPGRADES FOR BAA

APT Skidata has completed final works on the third of three complete system upgrades and expansions at all of BAA's London Airports – Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. The upgrades bring a new level of flexibility and control to both customer and end-user alike.

At Heathrow and Gatwick, the original APT 450 equipment, installed more than 10-years ago in the central Short Stay car parks, has been replaced with the most current APT 460 technology; at Stansted, upgraded hardware and software has been installed throughout, including an entirely new system within the Long Stay car park.

The new APT Skidata Parking.Logic 460 Technology features the company's latest generation ticket read/write unit - Coder Unlimited. The Coder is designed in modular form to enable customers to choose from a selection of ticket or card type technology (for example with or without magnetic stripe; crosswise EAN Standard barcode or traditional Skidata lengthwise barcode; non-contact RFID). Photocopier style easy-access handles enable car park operatives to quickly and simply deal with any ticket transport problems without the need for any tools or technical knowledge.

As well as having Coder Unlimited, all of the airports are also now equipped with Easy.Cash, APT Skidata's latest Pay-on-Foot technology. These machines, which can accept cash and credit/debit cards, are also able to give change in coins and/or banknotes – a major advantage according to Dermot Murphy, Managing Director of APT Skidata:

“Easy.Cash enables the operators to drastically reduce the amount of coinage that is tied up in change hoppers,” he says, “while at the same time doing away with the slot machine style ‘payouts' of large quantities of coins given with larger banknotes. Credit card payments are all based on Chip and Pin handled through Payment Service Providers nominated by the Management Companies involved.”

For those car parks where pre-booked parking spaces are on offer, APT Skidata has either installed new fully integrated ANPR facilities or connected into the existing ANPR infrastructure. This gives the user the option of using either their license plate or their credit card as the means of identification for access to/egress from their chosen car park if they have booked on-line or via a Call Centre.

Essential to all of the projects was that the level of disruption and inconvenience to the general public was kept to an absolute minimum: “we had to ensure that the operation of the car parks was not compromised in any way,” Mr Murphy says. “As a result of careful and detailed project planning and implementation these goals were achieved without any intrusive impact on either the users or the operators of the car parks.”