1. ChargeMyPlate
Your parking has been paid for.
ChargeMyPlate
Your parking has been paid for.

2. The BIG Idea in
45 Words
Paying for parking, whether on-street or
off-street, is an extremely inconvenient
experience for drivers anywhere in the
world.
If you can provide a seamless, unobtrusive
payment method which allows people to
not stress about parking ever again, they
will prefer this method above any other.
Unobtrusive Parking Payments
How can you make parking
better?
Existing parking payment solutions are overly
complicated, inconvenient and incur high risks
and expenses to parking operators. A hugely
fragmented market with different, incompatible
solutions adds to the confusion and
inconvenience of motorists.
A good solution must be:
▣ Unobtrusive: making parking payments
simple - almost transparent
▣ Consistent: allowing anyone to park
anywhere (on-street or off-street) and
pay seamlessly
▣ Low-cost, low-risk: avoiding the handling
of cash and maintenance of machines
▣ Universally accessible: not requiring
any smart-phones, cards, fancy gadgets
or apps
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3. Want better parking?
Use better system.
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4. Hello
▣ This presentation is dedicated to the economic upside of turning
parking into an enjoyable experience (using fintech)
We are Urban Management Solutions
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5. Introducing ChargeMyPlate
Our parking payments solution
can be implemented at any
city and any private car park. It
has few requirements on
infrastructure and involves
minimal capital and operational
expenses.
Here’s how it works...
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6. 1.
The universal
ChargeMyPlate
account
At the heart of
the
ChargeMyPlate
solution is a
secure, virtual
pre-paid
account,
assigned to a
vehicle owner
and fully
managed by us.
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7. Registering an account is easy
Send a Premium SMS containing
your registration plate number
Your ChargeMyPlate account is
automatically created and linked with your
registration plate number
You can now park anywhere
(And your first parking session is on us!)
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8. There are many ways to top up
Credit or debit card
Customers can top-up their
account on-line with any widely
accepted debit or credit card.
Cash
They can also top-up with cash by
buying a voucher or using a
payment kiosk or ATM at our
partner locations.
Direct Debit
Where available, customers can
set up Direct Debit. Their account
will automatically top-up when
funds run low.
PayPal
We accept top-up payments from
customers’ existing PayPal
account.
Bitcoin
Customers are also welcome to
top-up with Bitcoins at current
exchange rate.
Redeem account balance
At any time, users can request that
their ChargeMyPlate account
balance be redeemed at par value.
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9. 2.
On-street parking
with SMS
To pay for on-
street parking,
customers only
need to send a
single SMS text
message to an
advertised short-
code number.
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10. One-step payments for on-street parking
Customer finds a place to park
Step 1: Send SMS to the short-code
number for the zone
Parking has been paid for 1 hour
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11. One-step process
The ChargeMyPlate system
allows users with a valid,
topped-up account to pay
for on-street parking at any
supported location in one-
hour increments by simply
sending a single SMS text
message to an advertised
short-code number.
On-street parking with ChargeMyPlate
Convenient reminders
Five minutes before the
user’s parking time expires,
an SMS notification is sent
to the user’s mobile phone.
If they wish, they can
simply reply with an empty
message to extend their
time further by another
hour.
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12. ‘’
“Paying by sending an SMS is
easy and very flexible. I like it
because when you are in a
meeting you get a reminder and
it is quite easy to calculate how
long it will take and if it’s worth to
send another SMS for another 1
hour of parking time.”
Maria Georgieva,
a vehicle owner using SMS to
pay for parking in Sofia, Bulgaria
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13. Accurate & efficient
Parking wardens can use
hand-held PDA devices (or
our ViewCop® augmented-
reality solution) to connect
to the ChargeMyPlate back-
end and verify whether a
payment has been made,
when the paid time for a
given vehicle expires, etc.
Monitoring, control & enforcement
Full control over ops
An advanced, web-based
administrative and reporting
interface provides parking
operators with detailed
history, analytics and
reporting functionality,
including real-time
monitoring of payments
and warden activity.
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14. Benefits to the municipality
▣ Avoids all costs and risks associated with handling
cash and maintaining machines;
▣ Increased efficiency and better control over
payment collection;
▣ Improved cash-flow, increased revenues and
slashed expenses;
▣ Detailed reporting and insights into customer
behavior and parking warden efficiency;
▣ Low-cost, low-maintenance system;
▣ Easy, convenient and environment-friendly
solution with multiple applications.
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15. 3.
Off-street parking
with ANPR
ChargeMyPlate
account owners
enjoy automatic
zero-step
parking
payments at
public and
private off-street
locations with
our Automatic
Number Plate
Recognition
(ANPR) cameras.
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16. Zero-step process
When parking at a
supported off-street
location with an
entry/exit barrier,
payment is processed
automatically and
transparently, without
requiring any explicit
payment action from the
user.
Off-street parking with ChargeMyPlate
Universal & consistent
Once a user is registered
with the system, they
can park at any
supported off-street
location using the same
account and the same
zero-step process.
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17. Automated payments for off-street parking
Customer approaches entry barrier
ANPR camera reads plate number, contacts
ChargeMyPlate back-end and opens barrier
Customer approaches exit barrier
ANPR camera reads plate number, back-end
calculates time and amount due and charges user
account automatically
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18. e-Money
The ChargeMyPlate platform handles user accounts in
accordance with EU directive 2009/110/EC regulating
electronic money institutions.
e-Money
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19. We put these principles first:
Security
As a payment
operator we
manage the
information
security of our
systems and those
of our clients and
partners with the
utmost rigour and
dedication.
Privacy
All customer data
stored or
processed by
ChargeMyPlate is
kept safe and
secure and is only
used in
accordance with
international and
EU personal data
protection
regulations.
Reliability
Our team has a
proven track record
for building highly
reliable mission-
critical systems for
Fortune 100
companies and
government
organizations
worldwide.
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20. To summarize:
ChargeMyPlate offers convenient, unobtrusive parking payments, which
do not require any cash, cards or smart-phones while reducing risks
and expenses for parking operators.
To summarise:
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21. Continually increasing value
Single
AccountOn-street
parking
Off-street
(public and
private)
Other auto-
related
payments
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22. Want a smart-phone
app anyway?
We are an IT company. We can
build one to your specifications
and brand it with your city or
company brand. Everyone will be
happy.
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23. Our Story
The team behind Urban Management Solutions
developed the ChargeMyPlate technology after years
of experience in maintaining, adapting and improving
an earlier version called ParkBySMS. Originally
developed by our sister company A115 for the
municipality of Sofia, Bulgaria in 2007, ParkBySMS now
handles hundreds of thousands of transactions
every business day. Today, more than 97% of all on-
street parking payments in Sofia are made with SMS.
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24. 210,000,000
parking payments made with ParkBySMS to-date
97% uptake
and a whole lot of satisfied motorists
8 years since launch
with ZERO down-time during working hours
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25. Contact us
▣ E-mail Urban Management Solutions at:
contact@urban-management.net
We are eager to talk to you!
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26. Credits
Special thanks to everyone who helped make this
presentation look so good:
▣ Presentation design by Sophie Lauren
▣ Minicons by Webalys
▣ Illustrations by Tinatini
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