Car Parking: VINCI Park and PayByPhone Adding NFC to Car Park Meters

• At a conference on mobile payment and urban services held during the Futur en Seine festival, VINCI Park announced it was working with PayByPhone on the development of an NFC car parking payment system. This deployment involves 5,500 lots in Issy-les-Moulineaux, and stands as the largest initiative ever conducted in Île-de-France and one of the widest in Europe.

• The driver simply waves his phone by the NFC tag displayed on the machine. Once he is identified, the PayByPhone app opens automatically and relates to the relevant charging zone. The user only has to specify how much time he wishes to purchase and validate his transaction.

• This device comes in addition to the other, already in place, solutions to dematerialise payments in this sector (IVR, SMS, mobile app). Users have access to the same range of services: adding in or cutting down car parking time through the app, alerts warning him his car parking time is about to go out, online balance consultation, monthly statements, etc.

Source: press release by VINCI Park and PayByPhone

• This announcement is in line with PayByPhone’s recent launch of its app on the French market (see May 2012 Insight). VINCI Park and PayByPhone are also planning to propose this solution in other areas (including the Hauts-de-Seine for instance). And, this service designed to making the payment act more flowing also relies on NFC.

• The payment is based on an online validation process towards which the user it directed from PayByPhone’s app: this principle makes both deployment and adoption easier.