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Surface Lot Parking Solutions

Connected parking technology designed for the visibility, guidance, and operational challenges of open-air parking environments.
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Why Surface Lots Require a Different Approach

Open-air parking creates different visibility, deployment, and guidance challenges than enclosed garages.
Surface lots spread vehicles across wide, open areas without enclosed levels, ceilings, or fixed interior pathways. Operators need technology that can withstand changing weather and monitor large areas, while drivers need clear guidance before they enter the lot and as they move toward available parking.

Limited Visibility Across Large Areas

Help drivers understand where parking is available before entering a full or congested section of the lot.
Use mobile guidance and strategically placed signage to direct drivers across open areas with fewer structural landmarks.
Manage circulation around entrances, exits, pedestrian routes, events, closures, and high-demand parking zones.
Use weather-resistant technology designed for sun, rain, wind, dust, temperature changes, and long-term outdoor operation.
Monitor ADA, EV, reserved, short-term, permit, visitor, and other regulated spaces across the lot.

How PGS Works Throughout a Surface Lot

Connected technology at every stage of the parking journey.

1 Arrival & Entry

Dynamic exterior signage displays real-time parking availability and directs drivers toward lots or sections with open spaces. Mobile guidance can provide availability, rates, restrictions, and destination information before a vehicle arrives.

2 Navigation & Wayfinding

Dynamic signage and mobile wayfinding guide drivers toward available parking areas, specialty zones, and destinations across large or unfamiliar lots.

3 Space Monitoring

High-mounted cameras can monitor multiple spaces from light poles, rooftops, or nearby buildings. Wireless single-space sensors provide precise occupancy data in areas where stall-level visibility is required.

4 Specialty & Reserved Parking

Support ADA parking, EV charging, permit parking, reserved spaces, short-term zones, and premium parking with occupancy monitoring, digital permissions, and enforcement tools.

5 Payments & Access

Mobile payments, digital permits, license plate recognition, and system integrations can support parking sessions, access, validation, and enforcement without relying on physical tickets.

6 Operations & Visibility

Pulse BI Dashboard provides operators with real-time and historical visibility into occupancy, turnover, dwell time, demand patterns, enforcement activity, and overall lot performance.

Improve Lot Performance

Improve Surface Lot Performance

Reduce Search Time

Help drivers find available parking faster with real-time availability, mobile guidance, and dynamic signage.
Reduce unnecessary circulation and guide vehicles around congestion, closures, pedestrian areas, and high-demand sections.
Distribute demand more effectively across lot sections, specialty zones, and nearby parking assets.
Monitor restricted, permit-only, ADA, EV, reserved, and time-limited spaces while directing enforcement resources where they are needed.
Connect occupancy and turnover data to pricing, enforcement, utilization, and future capacity decisions.

Recommended Surface Lot Technologies

Build the right solution for your facility.
Every surface lot operates differently. PGS combines outdoor detection, signage, software, and mobility solutions to create a system tailored to the size, layout, infrastructure, and operational goals of the lot.

Camera-Based Occupancy Sensors

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Wireless Single-Space Sensors

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Dynamic Signage

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License Plate Recognition

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Pulse BI Dashboard

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PGS Mobility Platform

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Proven in Lot Operations

See how operators use PGS technology to improve parking performance.

Cumberland Garage in Tampa, Florida

Parking in a busy entertainment district is simpler and more profitable thanks to access control and dynamic space allocation from PGS.
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University of South Carolina

A hybrid approach to parking guidance made managing 18,000 spaces frustration-free for students, faculty and staff.
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Explore Other Parking Environments

Parking technology tailored to different types of assets.
  • Large Outdoor Parking

Parking Garages

Guide drivers through levels, zones, and aisles with space-level occupancy monitoring, dynamic signage, and connected operations.
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  • High-Turnover Parking

Curbside

Manage high-turnover parking, arrivals, departures, valet operations, and mobile parking workflows.
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Improve Parking Lot Operations

See how PGS can help improve visibility, circulation, utilization, and the overall parking experience across your open-air facility.
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