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Campus parking management: parking, EV charging and cycle lockers for universities

Time-saving solutions, from smart parking barriers and barriers to cycle lockers and EV chargers: whether for the whole campus or for individual areas, from charging infrastructure to parking management – book-n-use gives universities and colleges flexible, time-saving access control. Parking spaces with the smart parking barrier 4.0, multi-purpose car parks and mobility hubs, cycle lockers with optimised utilisation and shared chargers – conveniently managed through a web portal and effortlessly operated by users from their smartphone.

From legacy to future-ready: retrofitting mobility infrastructure

Existing installations can easily be upgraded or extended, and book-n-use can also be integrated into existing digital systems that use tokens or access cards. So we can offer you tailored retrofitting for every situation.

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Case studies

Case studies from universities

Information banner for TU Darmstadt's Lichtwiese car park
Parking optimisation: smart parking in the TUD car park
Since August 2023, residents and visitors have also been able to reserve and pay for one of the 476 spaces in the new Lichtwiese car park online. As part of the reorganisation of parking, this efficient parking management compensated for the loss of on-street parking. We provide complete access control, from the smart barrier to the bicycle-friendly access door – and on the TU Darmstadt campus, more than 100 parking spaces are also reliably reserved and kept free with our smart parking barrier 4.0.
Row of red cycle lockers on a paved parking area
Shared company bikes: flexible mobility for cyclists
To promote sustainable mobility and meet the needs of staff and lecturers, TU Kaiserslautern offers company bikes at various locations. We retrofitted the associated cycle lockers with an electromechanical locking system and integrated them into book-n-use. Now everyone who is authorised can easily reserve and use a company bike, and the cycle lockers open by smartphone with book-n-use.
Smart parking barrier in front of a TU Darmstadt electric car
The mobility hub of the future: research for urban mobility
As an associate partner of DELTA, the Darmstadt Energy Lab for Technologies in Application, we are actively helping to shape the urban energy transition. In this project, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, “approaches are tested to save resources, improve quality of life and strengthen social cohesion in the energy transition”. book-n-use uses insights from DELTA to design complete, sustainable sharing solutions – and we are happy to help you design your mobility hub, too.
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FAQs

Frequently asked questions about using book-n-use at universities

book-n-use simplifies your mobility access management and makes access rights easy to manage. Because users operate everything themselves by smartphone, there is less work for you, and user groups such as professors can be addressed according to need. Complicated and expensive token/RFID systems can be replaced or supplemented, and non-digital parking systems upgraded. This optimisation achieves higher utilisation, so less parking space is needed. All-in-one access control for car parks or mobility hubs, including booking and payment, is also possible with book-n-use. And of course, for more sustainable mobility, cycle lockers can be controlled and integrated into the overall system too.

Everything in your mobility infrastructure that needs access control: car park barriers, smart parking barriers, cycle lockers, shared cycle stores, roller doors, lockers, access to EV chargers and shared rooms, etc.

The basic book-n-use service includes:

  • Setting up your own tenant on our platform
  • A protected admin area for management as a Reservation Manager
  • book-n-use without installation, as software as a service (SaaS)
  • Support by email or phone
  • Application hosting in German data centres
  • GDPR-compliant processes
  • Simple, regular updates
  • Monitoring of the required communication infrastructure

Depending on the scope of service you need, the following are possible:

  • Tailored parking access devices such as our solar-powered smart parking barrier 4.0
  • Implementation of electronic payment functions or messenger services
  • Integration of existing access and locking systems (e.g. with RFID, tokens, etc.)
  • Retrofitting of existing access systems such as car park barriers with our communication module developed in Germany
  • Optional integration of number plate recognition or displays

For reserved individual spaces or secure charger sharing, we recommend our smart parking barrier 4.0 – it is optimised for use with the book-n-use software and runs on solar and battery power, so the hardware also guarantees that the space is kept free. Of course, any existing or preferred parking access device can also be retrofitted and controlled with book-n-use.

Our experienced development team has already carried out a large number of system integrations. Integration into existing software and systems is based on an interface accessed via a JSON REST API.

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