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Efficiency gains with managed parking services
Are you looking to increase the efficiency of your parking officer patrols? How do you achieve the right balance of technology and parking strategy for efficiency gains?

Parking and M Commerce; Changing Community Behaviour
Hear from DCA’s Jason Marks on the rise of M-Commerce and contactless payment, and special guest speaker Josh Sattler.
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City of Port Phillip – Recognising success
The City of Port Phillip is a vibrant municipality and among the earliest established in greater Melbourne. The local government area is located on 11km of foreshore at the northern edge of Port Phillip Bay. It is renowned for its urban villages, beautiful gardens and beaches, its architecture from contemporary forms to magnificent heritage buildings, and its inclusive, diverse community.
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Smart Digital Parking Solution
DCA and Rockhampton Regional Council formed a partnership to bring in the next generation of technology to help overcome local parking challenges, with a specific view to decreasing vehicle overstays and congestion.
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PayStay Digitising Darwin’s CBD parking experience
The City of Darwin sought to partner with DCA to introduce a digital parking system to complement the meter scheme already in place, with a view to accommodating not only their permanent retailers and residents but also their vast and growing transient and seasonal population.
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View All Fact SheetsPinForce Handheld LPR
Connected PinForce Handheld Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) technology encompasses augmented reality to enhance the efficiency of field officers.
DownloadePermits
DCA’s ePermits permit issuing technology replaces the need for paper based permits for parking and other services. Our fully automated, highly customisable solution has been developed to meet the real-world needs of councils, universities and transport authorities where the complexity and rules based issuing of permits and bay reservations has become increasingly challenging and costly to administer.
DownloadPayStay makes life easier for everyone
PayStay is Australia’s leading pay-by-phone application and its success can be attributed to its ease of use.
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Smart phone to unlock the City of Fremantle’s Integrated Parking Management System
City of Fremantle has chosen Database Consultants Australia (DCA) as the preferred supplier to deliver their smart city parking strategy.
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Can Smart Cities help us to make smarter decisions?
The value of data, resource allocation and predictive data mapping is beyond measure as we deal with issues that stretch governments, citizens and business like never before.

Smart city technology development in the hands of citizens
There are hundreds of definitions of smart city technology, one of the keys to smart city development is the inclusion of citizens in the contribution to data, the use of technology and an understanding of the impact.