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42775 Nine Mile Road, Novi, Michigan 48375 USA

“OUR COMMITMENT IS YOUR SUCCESS”

Federal APD, Incorporated. Based in Novi, Michigan, Federal APD is the Largest U.S. Manufacturer of Access, Parking and Revenue Control Solutions for improved security applications.
With an extensive worldwide distribution network, Federal APD regional offices service hundreds of qualified distributors in North America, Asia/Pacific rim, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

PRODUCTS

* Access Control Products
* Parking Control Products
* Revenue Control Products
* Automated Parking Systems
* Facility Management Systems
* Security Gates
* Image Reference Library
* AVI - Automated Vehicle Inventory System
* LPR - License Plate Recognition
* Moblile LPR

For Product Information on the above, please go to:
http://www.federalapd.com/products/index.htm

Just the Ticket: Professional turnkey solutions for airport parking that fit today’s exacting requirements

Parking is a key element in passenger transportation as well as a security measure for the control of enforcement/access and revenue. Commercial complexes, such as airports, generate large amounts of revenue from the parking arena. This is why control of this revenue is so important.

Federal APD offers airport authorities a parking solution that integrates device technology and image technology to deliver a true systems approach to parking, information collected at each lane is processed through a parking software management system called ScanNet, this user-friendly software package allows the operator to print
Reports on all activities taking place in the facility.

Security measures are of increasing importance throughout the world. The act of bringing customers to a central location, where they will enter a parking facility and board an aeroplane, is the first personal contact that is made with the customer. Federal APD is aware of the importance of controlling and monitoring access and exits from the parking facility. License plate recognition (LPR) is an example of a system it offers that has a wide range of revenue control and security applications. The extracted plate information and images can be used to create automated solutions for various problems.
Plate number data can be used to:

Integrated Solutions
Federal APD offers a complete range of products for LPR. The integration of this system with Federal APD’s parking device technology and its central parking management software program, creates an automated solution to enhance revenue and security issues in the parking facility.

Federal APD manufactures a wide range of products, including ticket dispensers, barrier gates, count control systems, vehicle recognition systems, card access readers, manual and automated fee computers to collect parking revenues, and central management system software to program, track and report on all activities in a parking facility.
As a systems integrator, Federal APD focuses on supplying complete turnkey solutions that work together to deliver a true systems approach to parking. These reliable products have been field tested throughout the world.

As a leading North American manufacturer of parking control products, Federal APD is proud of the leadership and sales achievements it has made. The company has a channel of distribution throughout the world, including offices in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Federal APD has proved that satisfying customers with well-built and innovative
Products has been its key to success. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Federal Signal Corporation and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSEL FSS).

At federal APD, where the first “self-park” concept was patented, the first microprocessor-based barrier gate was invented and where the first completely integrated facility management system software was introduced to the parking industry. Federal APD takes pride in offering the finest products available, complete project management, guaranteed product reliability, documentation and service, everything needed to make an installation efficient and trouble free.

Federal APD is celebrating its 50-year anniversary of serving the parking industry.
The company is excited to begin another 50 years of parking solution innovation,
Since, insights translate today’s answers into tomorrow’s success.

Parking the Building Block for Revenue

Parking is an essential element in today’s transportation market, requiring the combined efficiencies of controlled vehicle throughput, security and revenue control to coalesce into a unified and synchronous system. Commercial complexes such as airports generate vast amounts of transaction activity that produce a revenue stream comparable with the gross domestic product of some small countries. The conclusive goal of the parking industry is the effective collection and control of the revenue stream, maximizing cash flow by minimizing revenue collection deficiencies.

Federal APD offers airport authorities a revenue control solution that integrates leading-edge technology with the lane device network; delivering a fully integrated, open architecture system. The guiding principle of design is based upon the capability of relating two independent identification technologies to each patron in the facility. The conventional method of gaining entry is typically through the issuance of a mag-stripe ticket, an access card or AVI tag. Information is collected for each patron as they enter the facility and uploaded to the Federal APD ScanNet Facility Management System. Federal APD has integrated a second method of identification through the use of License Plate Recognition (LPR) cameras and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The LPR in the lane creates and sends additional information to the ScanNet system that relates the ticket number (or other primary ID), license plate number, license plate image and vehicle image together in the system’s relational database. While the patron is in the facility, the operator has full access to view current license plates and vehicle images in the facility, as well as “correct” plates where the OCR confidence may be below a required threshold.

Upon exiting the facility, the traversal history of the patron is acquired from the database by both the primary ID and the license plate number. This independently returns all data associated with each field including the ID number, license plate number, lane number, date, time, license plate image and vehicle image. Should both traversal histories match, the operator may be assured of a high probability that the exiting patron’s fee is being properly calculated, collected and audited.

Security measures are also of increasing importance throughout the world. In many instances, the first personal contact that is made between the airport facility and the customer is through the parking experience. The act of bringing customers to a central location where they will be boarding and embarking upon an airplane is not lost upon the parking industry. Federal APD is especially aware of the importance of controlling and monitoring access and egress from the parking facility. LPR plays an additional role in a security application, providing a means to track a vehicle once it has entered the airport area. Certain vehicular patterns may be recognized as suspicious and plate numbers may be checked against a “blacklist”. When utilized for both revenue control and security, LPR data and its application may be used to:

• Reduce ticket fraud (ticket swapping)
• Reduce license plate fraud (license plate swapping)
• Calculate parking time
• Calculate fees for lost tickets
• Control traffic
• Verify access and egress through extracted images
• Control access to restricted areas
• Detect suspicious vehicular patterns
• Provide license plate data to local law enforcement agencies when requested

Federal APD offers a complete range of products integrated with LPR technology. This integration, coupled with the ScanNet facility management system, creates an automated solution to enhance revenue control and security in the parking facility. Federal APD manufactures a wide range of products including ticket dispensers, barrier gates, count control systems, level count systems, vehicle recognition systems, card access devices and automatic fee computers. All devices have been integrated to interact with the ScanNet system, providing the operator with a central environment to efficiently manage the system.

As a systems integrator, Federal APD focuses on supplying complete turnkey systems that operate synergistically to deliver a true systems approach to parking. These reliable products have been field tested throughout the world. Federal APD is proud of the leadership it has established and the sales achievements it has accomplished as the leading North American manufacturer of parking control products. Federal APD has a mature channel of global distribution as well as regional offices in Hong Kong and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Federal APD’s key to success is providing well built and innovative systems fully supported directly by Federal APD and through its distribution channels. In 1954, Federal APD created the first “self-park” concept by developing the industry’s first ticketing machine. Other innovations followed including the first microprocessor-based barrier gate (G90 Omega) and the first PC based facility management system (SCAN).

Federal APD takes pride in offering the finest products and services available including Project Management, Systems Engineering and Product Support group. Federal APD and its team members are excited as the company enters its second half-century of service to the industry. Just as it has during its first fifty years, Federal APD will continue to translate today’s innovations into tomorrow’s success.

Federal APD is Awarded and Signs Contract.

August 13th, 2004 - Federal APD, Inc., of Novi, Michigan signed a contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (“the Authority”) for a new Airport Parking and Revenue Control System. The system will replace the parking equipment and the central parking management system at LaGuardia Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Newark Liberty International Airport.

The signing of this contract extends Federal APD’s track record of supplying state-of-the-art parking, access and revenue control equipment to major airports across the globe. Federal APD parking solutions enhance revenue control and improve operational efficiency of Airport Parking Operations. The automated parking system at each airport will fully integrate with an E-Z Pass interface, central control monitoring, License Plate Recognition and an interconnecting communications subsystem covering all parking lanes.

The contract with the Port Authority has a base performance period of six years and can be extended by three additional two-year periods and one 120-day period. The contract represents potential Sales exceeding $79 Million. The contract has an initial value of $46,965.905.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey determined final selection and award of the contract after extensive review of Federal APD’s experience, products, services, technology innovation capabilities and overall approach and planning.

Federal APD Inc. is proud to have been selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Our commitment to innovation and service since 1953 has become the benchmark of our success.

Federal APD has achieved sales leadership in its marketplace by satisfying customers with well-built and innovative products, and with a commitment to long-term customer support. At Federal APD, where the first completely integrated facility management system software was introduced to the parking industry, insights translate today's answers into tomorrow's successes.

For the name and number of an authorized sales and service distributor in your territory, please contact our Customer Service Department at (800) 521-9330, or your closest Federal APD regional office.

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