No more leaving your date waiting at the dinner table while you run to re-plug your parking meter. Available in select cities in Canada, the United States and Europe, Verrus lets its users plug their parking meters via phone.
If you're one of the lucky 74 per cent of motorists who carry a cell phone, you no longer need to lug around a pocket full of parking change, thanks to new technologies from Verrus.
Verrus has a feature enabling motorists to virtually plug and re-plug their meters via phone and credit card. E-mail receipts can be obtained for that company expense accountâ€"that was a client you took out for dinner on the company card, right?
The wonderful Oklahoma City invention of parking meters has been a scourge since 1935 that all motorists will have to deal with eventually.
Not only is this more convenient, but it also reduces risks of any safety issues. Those emergency parking coins in your vehicle ashtray have been a cause for break-and-enters for many years according to police. Eliminating the need for coins to plug meters will also greatly reduce meter vandalism. We may never again have to see images of decapitated meters like those in California in the 1990s.
Pay Parking Meters With Your Mobile Phone
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Trend Themes
1. Mobile Phone Parking Payment - Opportunity for disruptive innovation in mobile payment technologies for parking meters, reducing the need for physical coins and increasing convenience.
2. Virtual Meter Re-plugging - Disruptive innovation potential in allowing motorists to remotely re-plug their parking meters via phone and credit card, enhancing convenience and eliminating the risk of safety issues.
3. Receipts and Expense Tracking - Disruptive innovation opportunity for incorporating e-mail receipts and expense tracking features in mobile parking payment systems, providing convenience and streamlining expense management.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile Payment Technologies - Opportunity for the mobile payment industry to advance and cater to parking payment needs, leveraging mobile phone technology and reducing reliance on physical coins.
2. Parking Management Solutions - Parking management industry can explore disruptive innovation in remote meter re-plugging and digital payment systems, enhancing convenience and security for motorists.
3. Expense Management Software - Expense management industry can expand to incorporate mobile parking payment systems with e-mail receipts, enabling easier expense tracking and integration with company accounts.