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Six months ago, AIPARK parking announced the completion of B1 and B2 rounds of financing, including Sino-US Green Fund, Lulai Capital, CICC Capital, Zhongguancun departure Fund and so on.

On June 3, the city-level smart cloud parking platform parking announced that it had completed tens of millions of yuan of financing and received hundreds of millions of yuan of supporting construction funds, invested by an institution in Shenzhen.

On June 28th, AIPARK Love parking announced the completion of 300 million yuan C round financing, led by Banyan Capital, and followed by long businessman Kunzhong and Zhongguancun Science City Science and Technology Fund.

AIPARK car parking was founded in 2015. Its main business is to develop AIPARK City, a city-level intelligent parking solution, combining artificial intelligence, Internet of things and data processing technology, and to land commercially in major cities. Xiamen Zhongka Technology Co., Ltd., which enjoys parking, uses cloud computing, Internet of things, big data processing and other advanced information technology as a means to achieve centralized monitoring and management for all kinds of parking lots through a business service model of sustainable operation.

AIPARK parking, parking and other smart parking platforms have received frequent financing, which highlights the importance that capital attaches to the smart parking market, which is all due to the fact that car owners have been parking for a long time, which is the result of the outbreak of smart parking demand.

Everyone has been parking for a long time.

It is difficult to buy a car, it is difficult to keep a car, and it is even more difficult to park. "social animals" complain about the travel experience. The reason is that there are still many weaknesses in domestic transport infrastructure, and the parking problem is particularly prominent.

First, with the development of the times and the change of people's consumption concept, cars have become a necessary family necessity for marriage, and the rapid growth of car ownership has led to a huge supply gap of parking spaces.

According to the data of Zhiyan Consulting, there are 32.14 million newly registered motor vehicles in 2019, and the number of motor vehicles has reached 348 million, including 25.78 million newly registered vehicles, 260 million cars, and more than one million cars in 66 cities. In addition, by 2020, the number of parking spaces in China will reach 119 million. If the number of cars continues to grow at a compound growth rate of nearly five years, the number of civil vehicles in the country will reach about 290 million, with a ratio of only 0.4 to parking spaces, which is seriously on the low side.

Second, the construction speed of parking facilities lags behind, coupled with backward parking management, asymmetric information and unreasonable allocation of resources, resulting in a large number of parking spaces idle. According to the data, the utilization rate of parking spaces in only 9% of the cities in China is more than 50%, and the utilization rates of parking spaces in the four major first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen are 49%, 40%, 48% and 55%, respectively.

Obviously, the problem of misallocation of resources is a hidden danger that further aggravates the problem of urban parking. Therefore, to solve the problem of low utilization rate of urban parking spaces and parking vacancies is not only to increase the number of parking spaces, to improve the utilization rate of parking spaces, to solve the problems of information asymmetry and utilization of parking spaces, but also to solve the current urgent task.

Third, in addition to the small number of parking spaces and the low utilization rate of parking spaces, the chaos caused by parking is also caused by different standards of parking fees. Large shopping malls, hospitals, squares, scenic spots and other places with high passenger flow, high parking costs and different standards. In some third-and fourth-tier cities, unscrupulous businesses will privately occupy public places and charge fees at will, disturbing the traffic order and chilling the hearts of car owners.

In this context, the construction of intelligent parking system has been put on the agenda.

The outline of Digital Transport Development Plan issued by the Ministry of Transport clearly states that it will promote the application of new business type in transportation such as vehicle networking, intelligent parking, intelligent public transportation, online car-hailing and shared bicycles, promote the deep integration of advanced information technology and transportation, and develop a modern transportation system driven by data.

In a word, the car ownership is high, the parking space is few, the parking efficiency is low, and the parking problem is becoming more and more difficult. It is at this time, intelligent transportation, smart city and other infrastructure concepts put forward and gradually landed, the problem of parking difficult to have the optimal solution.

AI helps, smart parking lot is favored.

Different from the chaos of the traditional parking lot, smart parking is a parking system based on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and other advanced technology, which solves the parking problem from the aspects of finding parking space, parking safety, payment and so on.

In terms of finding parking spaces, car owners can query parking information in advance through the intelligent parking platform, which speeds up the time for car owners to find parking spaces, optimizes the parking experience, and saves travel time. A more advanced way to find a car is that the intelligent parking platform knows the destination of the owner in advance and automatically recommends the best parking location for the owner to avoid the trouble of finding a parking space.

In the allocation of parking spaces, real-time data such as vacant and full parking platforms provide a reliable basis for the allocation of parking spaces, thus increasing parking efficiency and bringing convenience to parking managers. It effectively avoids the dilemma that one side's garage is crowded and the other side's garage is deserted, and effectively improves the utilization rate of parking spaces.

In terms of charging, the smart parking lot has an automatic payment system, which through the vehicle identification, recording the parking time, calculating the amount of payment, and finally feedback the payment information to the car owner, and the car owner can help pay the fee through the smart parking system. In this way, the cost of manual charging is reduced, the errors of artificial charges are reduced, and car owners can easily enjoy convenient travel services.

Smart parking, parking space inquiry, parking reservation, automatic payment and other functions in one, is an effective means to solve the difficulty of parking. As a result, major cities have increased the planning of parking facilities, and the intelligent parking system has been gradually accepted by car owners.

The "implementation opinions on further strengthening the Planning and Construction Management of parking facilities" issued by Qingdao City, Shandong Province, puts forward that by 2022, the city's commercial parking lots will basically be integrated into the intelligent parking platform, with 310000 berths managed by the network.

The implementation Plan of 2020 Intelligent parking Project issued by Jincheng City, Shanxi Province puts forward that Jincheng City will complete the construction of city-level intelligent parking platform and put it into trial operation by the end of June 2020.

The Fuzhou Action Plan for promoting New Infrastructure Construction (2020-2022) announced by Fuzhou City in Xiamen proposes to speed up the intelligent transformation and upgrading of parking lots, build intelligent parking platforms, and provide convenient services such as parking interconnection, reserved parking and senseless payment.

It can be predicted that the result of local efforts to build and develop smart parking industry will be the further expansion of the scale of smart parking market. In addition, the wave of large-scale construction of smart parking lots in provinces and cities across the country has attracted the attention of capitals. Traditional parking equipment suppliers and Internet technology companies compete for layout in an attempt to take the lead in seizing a favorable track position.

Under the upsurge of "New Infrastructure": competing for the Red Sea

Under the wave of new infrastructure, smart cities are gradually emerging. As an important link in the construction of smart cities, the development potential of intelligent transportation is self-evident. According to the data of the prospective Industrial Research Institute, China's intelligent transportation will maintain an average annual compound growth rate of about 13% in the next few years, and the market size of the industry will exceed 1.5 trillion yuan by 2024.

In this context, traditional parking equipment suppliers and Internet technology companies have bet on the smart parking market, competing with each other, and the flavor among the participants in the smart parking market is becoming stronger and stronger.

Different enterprises have different backgrounds, different resources and different advantages, so their competitiveness is different.

Traditional parking equipment suppliers, with good customer resources and operational experience, need to upgrade the traditional parking equipment intelligently, through the good reputation in the past and today's intelligent high-quality equipment, to retain old customers and attract new users. Jieshun, an Jubao and other parking equipment manufacturers are among them outstanding.

Internet technology enterprises, there are many ways to enter the intelligent parking market, based on big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other advanced technologies, to provide technical support and solutions for traditional manufacturers, or through user data mining to provide online services. Frequent financing of parking, it is relying on big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of things and other strong technology accumulation, to provide intelligent parking overall solution, in smart parking to create a world.

Of course, as the market value of smart parking is deeply excavated, the market competition will be more and more exciting. After a period of market fighting, the domestic smart parking market is likely to form an oligopoly like other industries.

(official account of Liu Kuang / tr. by Phil Newell) ID:liukuang110

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