In the French city of Rouen, there is a prime shopping destination with more than 80 shops (or better: boutiques), a movie theater with 14 screens, and delicious food courts. The mall includes, as a tribute to Rouen's important maritime past, elements of the maritime world in its architecture. The warehouses of the docks, built on these sites between 1955 and 1957, have been preserved and...
Rouyn-Noranda Airport (YUY) is located in the region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue within the French-speaking province of Quebec, Canada. It serves the city of Rouyn-Noranda and represents a gateway to northern resources. In fact, it is one of the most northern airports in the world - planes take off to reach the North Pole from there! On a weekly basis, the airport acts as a regional hub and...
The parking world has not ceased evolving. On one hand there are new demands for touchless parking experiences, rising from the recent health crisis. On the other, the need for seamless journeys across transport methods is surging as more and more people are going back to their “old” driving habits, and expect the urban mobility ecosystem to be ready, easily accessible, and safe. In these...
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is introducing a new contactless parking system across the East Coast route, enabling a completely contactless journey from door to door. Car parks at all 11 LNER managed stations will start to use an advanced system of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), comprising of cameras on entry and exit which will make the new effortless system possible. For the first...
Simone Sandri is our Head of R&D and Software Platform Development Manager and works with an international team of 85 people located in Bologna (Italy), Spreitenbach (Switzerland) Warrendale (USA), and Ruse (Bulgaria). A “wild bunch of nerds” as some might say, who are mainly software engineers, but also support engineers. With Simone we discussed future trends in the parking industry, touchless solutions and HUB’s mobile...
Sara Fiorini is a Product Manager at HUB Headquarter in Bologna since early 2018, following several years in Production Planning and Materials Sourcing. She has also led the Engineering Change (EC) processes that have improved the components of HUB’s legacy and Jupiter ranges, as well as the development of our latest Access Reader Solution and “just-wave” access mode on peripherals. In order to discover more on the latest...
We have done our best while working remotely, and eventually got back to our old desks these days: alternating shifts, maintaining the due distance amongst colleagues and replacing video-calls with mask to mask interactions. Our Head of Product Marketing, Enrico Filippi, was looking forward to coming back to Bologna headquarter, and its Jupiter showroom. We’ve been pondering with him on the pandemic impact on the...
In order to reopen, all businesses are required to adopt measures that limit the amount of physical interaction. Social distancing, capacity reduction, and sanitizing regulations have become daily activities for all facilities where people (will) work, interact, and do their essentials. Hospitals and health centers customarily apply very strict control to pedestrian and vehicle access. Even more so during these times, where access systems are...
HUB Parking Technology recently installed a brand new DATAPARK system at the Center for Care & Discovery Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The medical center doubles as the heart of the University of Chicago Medicine’s campus and is a state-of-the-art hospital with 25,385 admissions and 492,078 ambulatory visits in 2014. It offers a full range of specialty and primary care services for adults and children with a...
HUB Parking Technology is the first and only company in the parking industry in Canada to achieve the certification process of Moneris EMV Solutions using VeriFone Ux300 Terminals and MSC Direct connect solution, thus providing its clients a secure and complete end-to-end payment solution. Moneris Solutions is Canada’s largest processor and acquirer of debit and credit card payments. The solution is based on EMV Level...
