INTERVIEW WITH PARKSAFE GROUP

Parksafe Group specializes in an extensive range of vehicle and camera safety equipment. Parksafe Group have been supplying and manufacturing a comprehensive range of reliable, cost-effective and quality assured products for the whole of the automotive industry for over 30 years.

The company’s closely controlled design processes, coupled with their in-house research and development expertise has allowed Parksafe to remain at the forefront of new product developments. This has helped to establish themelves as a leading automotive product supplier.

Easy Engineering: What are the main areas of activity of the company?

Parksafe Group: Parksafe Group are an established aftermarket safety solution provider; our core business is the automotive and commercial sectors including HGV Commercial Vehicles, LGV Lights Good Vehicles, Passenger Vehicles and Bus and coach Vehicles. We manufacture and provide a range of Vehicle products from Vehicle CCTV to OEM Parking Aids.

E.E: What’s the news about new products?

Parksafe Group: With a dedicated, knowledgeable in-house design and engineering department, Parksafe Group are continually developing and improving existing products, to a constantly evolving industry. Our latest products include a passenger counting system, which is designed to accurately record boarding and alighting data, which can then be used to determine optimum vehicle scheduling based on passenger load.

The system employs highly accurate over-door sensors capturing on/off counts each time the passenger-entry doors open and close. They recognize when multiple doors are open and passengers are crossing doorways in both directions. It allows quick access to real-time occupancy data and detailed reporting functions. The information can be shared to other systems and reporting packages via API to accelerate data analysis and decision making. It can also be used for schedule optimization, fraud detection and revenue distribution calculations.

E.E: What are the ranges of products?

Parksafe Group: Parksafe group offer a range of vehicle and camera safety equipment to the automotive industry and beyond. From a selection of CCTV, 360° and Ai Pedestrian Detection Systems to FORS and Direct Vision Standard Packages and Sensors, Audible Alarms, Plug & Play Looms, Cable and an entire range of Warehouse Consumables. Our innovative range of products are designed to improve driver and passenger safety and increase efficiency. 

E.E: What are the most innovative products marketed?

Parksafe Group: Every year large vehicles collide with overhead bridges, research by Network Rail has found that 56% of drivers do not consider low bridges when planning their journey. As a result, these collisions endanger lives and cause disastrous delays on the road and rail networks. 

Data published by Network Rail between 1st April 2020 and 31st March 2021 shows that there were 1,624 bridge strikes reported across the network. Most of these incidents involved Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGV’s). Costly bridge strikes can be avoided by alerting over height vehicles on their approach, our unique and innovative Parksafe Bridge Detection safety system is the ideal solution! 

Designed in-house, our revolutionary Bridge Detection System device can detect bridges and can be used as a stand-alone product and can be integrated into the vehicles cigarette lighter – simply plug in, and drive. 

By detecting upcoming low bridges, our intelligent Bridge Detection uses GPS vehicle location data and geo-fencing to warn the driver via LED-enhanced alerts and an audible warning system that automatically activates and can help to significantly prevent disastrous collisions at low bridges throughout the UK.