Smart P - Reinvention of Car Parking

A Swiss design and engineering bureau called Skyline Innovations has developed a parking structure that it claims can park as many cars as a conventional parking structure in 1/4th of the space. They call it, "Smart P".

It's effectively an automated parking valet.

You drive your car on to a platform. A computer scans it to determine its dimensions, and compares it to cars already parked on its various levels. It then finds a spot to store your car where it can maximize space. A lift captures your car, elevates it up to the assigned level, then rotates the car to the appropriate space. The whole thing is automated.

The bureau says a space occupying 20 meters by 20 meters can store up to 300 cars, making it much more profitable for companies to operate parking garages.

Skyline Innovations is now looking for organizations interested in doing business with them.