Car park meters that call for help
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 at 10:47 AM PST In General
City authorities in Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK are introducing intelligent, SIM card equipped car-park ticket machines that can automatically text for help if anyone attempts to break into or damage them. In addition, 150 of these machines can also automatically request a service if they malfunction and, if full, will call for their money boxes to be emptied.
In order to support the new ticketing machines, the city is also establishing a 24-hour control centre in Bristol and a new parking information centre in Eastbourne.
Again, it’s nice to see the mobile technology getting new and somewhat unexpected uses in our everyday’s lives…
[Via: textually.org]
First thing I though was, wth? we already have mobile signal jammers so if the authorities will become too dependent on the mobile calls/messages from the parkin meters, people coud just use mobile jammer and break the shit and take the money?
anonymous finnish guy.-