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You can upgrade to a modern browser or use the Google Chrome Frame to optimize your viewing experience The city of Waldshut-Tiengen is revolutionizing urban parking – in collaboration with Hectronic and our regional sales partner Gleichauf Right on the doorstep of our Bonndorf production site we have implemented an innovative parking system with 40 Citea parking machines After successfully introducing license plate-based parking and completing a twelve-month test phase the next step is now being taken: Starting March 1 paper tickets will be completely abolished The system impresses with its simplicity: Parkers enter their license plate number at the machine and can pay with coins The traditional walk back to the vehicle is eliminated entirely a digital parking ticket can be requested via QR code License plate verification and payment control are efficiently carried out by municipal enforcement officers using handheld scanners All data is processed in strict compliance with GDPR data protection regulations Head of the Legal and Regulatory Office of the city of Waldshut-Tiengen the transition to digital parking tickets is significant for multiple reasons digitalization provides an opportunity to effectively compensate for missing capacities license plate-based parking eliminates potential sources of error when verifying parking durations The elimination of paper tickets not only significantly reduces resource consumption but also prevents unnecessary waste in the city center actively supporting the city’s sustainability goals The collaboration between Waldshut-Tiengen and Hectronic continues: Digital resident parking permits and simplified license plate verifications are just a few of the tools currently being discussed These innovations promise modern administrative processes that will make things easier for both the city and its citizens "Let’s do it!" – this principle has made Waldshut-Tiengen a pioneer in sustainable parking management We are proud to support this transformation together with our sales partner Gleichauf and to help shape the path toward a sustainable Hectronic We offer innovative and user-friendly solutions for e-mobility No matter if payment and authorization systems or monitoring and management of data – our hardware and cloud systems ensure forward-looking solutions With our production site in Bonndorf (Black Forest and India as well as 90 sales and service partners we guarantee our customers a global expert network As NATO and the United States rally to the defense of Ukraine, citizens and corporations are joining together to support Ukrainian citizens in their fight against Russia AMETEK, a global company with a major presence in Kent and northeast Ohio When I caught up with Matt French, senior vice president and general manager of the Advanced Motion Solutions division in Kent, Matt was in Bonndorf, a community in southwest Germany meeting with Uwe Lorenz, managing director of Dunkermotoren and one of the topics on their agenda was their ongoing support for the Ukrainians an initiative started in the community by two employees in their plant that employs 1,000 workers The Dunkermotoren employees had hoped to fill one semi-truck with blankets clothing and other basic living supplies through an appeal they made in Bonndorf a small Black Forest community of about 7,000 people they ended up garnering enough donations to fill three semi trailers The much-needed relief was supplied to a local charity in Ukraine which took over distributing supplies to the victims of the Russian attacks Included in the donations were six tons of clothing one ton of over-the-counter medicines and two tons of bedding The team of two employees quickly became a team of five and then grew to more than 100 volunteers AMETEK’s Bonndorf and Czech Republic plants are also in the process of employing Ukrainian refugees “We already have hired several new colleagues in the Czech plant and it has worked out very well for everyone We are excited to have Ukrainian refugees joining our workforce and becoming part of the community,” French said whose 18,000 employees work in more than 150 production facilities around the world has earmarked a considerable donation from the AMETEK Foundation for charities that are providing food and medical supplies to Ukrainian refugees area readers should know that AMETEK is assisting a Kent State University graduate student Lisowsky has established a goal to fill 3,000 medical kits for soldiers in Ukraine by collecting supplies donated throughout the community fled Ukraine during World War II and found refuge in America “I feel a duty to help the country that has given me so much brightness,” Lisowsky said in the interview She is modeling her kits after those created by Plast Ukraininan Scouting-USA in which she holds a membership Placing collection bins for medical supplies located in strategic sites in White Hall Community members can contribute by either donating money or buying supplies directly Plast Scouts then package and send the kits to Poland and finally to Ukraine to meet the needs of soldiers and those surviving the horrific Russian bombing attacks French said that AMETEK is donating refreshments to the student volunteers and Plast Scouts during the assembly process and volunteering an AMETEK box truck to make sure the medical supplies get to the proper location French and his wife have also personally donated medical supplies for the kits Lorenz said Germans are just as astonished over the outbreak of a war in Europe as Americans “We did not even imagine a war could break out in Europe.” Germany has opened its doors and set up a responsive organizational approach to settling the Ukrainians in situations where they meet and interact with Germans “We want them to fully integrate and not be left in isolation to themselves," Lorenz said AMETEK is a leading global provider of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices providing differentiated solutions to support its customers’ challenging applications The company’s products can be found in a wide range of end markets including aerospace and advance measurement applications around the world Dix is the retired publisher of the Record-Courier Hectronic is launching new solutions to advance the authorization and payment process for the charging of electric vehicles No matter if an existing charging infrastructure is extended or a new one is set up: Company and fleet filling stations charging parks and owners of customer and employee parking spaces find their solutions in the new e-mobility portfolio of Hectronic the number of registrations of new battery-electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) tripled the number of 1 million electric vehicles on German streets was reached With the increasing number of electric vehicles the charging infrastructure needs to be extended Apart from the installation of charging poles the authorization and payment process needs to be as simple as possible With the eReady update for existing fuel terminals the payment terminal HecPay Eco (available from spring 2022 and completely cashless) and a software solution for the back office Hectronic turns the entry into e-mobility into a piece of cake The eReady Update for Existing Fuel Terminals eReady can be activated at different fuel terminals of the system provider from the Black Forest „We can easily install our solution for e-mobility as an update on an existing terminal This makes it possible to control the fuelling processes and the charging poles; after the update the latter can be operated together with fuel pumps in mixed operation” Product Manager e-mobility at the family enterprise from Bonndorf eReady can be combined with Hectronic’s authorization system easy2fuel that takes fuel cards via app into the smartphone operators accelerate the fuelling and charging processes and can simultaneously manage all data” operators can easily extend their existing infrastructure by e-mobility In a nutshell: With eReady electricity becomes a further fuel” The Eco-Line Fuel Terminals for Electricity and Other Fuels If company premises or public filling stations are equipped from scratch operators can select the new fuel terminal model from the Eco-Line the housing types available and the manifold combination options the Heconomy Eco is perfectly suited for the requirements of a company filling station The HecVision Eco guarantees flexibility and reliability for public 24h filling stations All Eco-Line terminals are characterized by an easy authorization or payment process users simply select the desired charging pole and charging station at the terminal The New Payment Terminal HecPay Eco for E-Mobility completely cash- and paperless payment terminal ensuring an easy and cost-efficient entry into e-mobility the retrofitting of an existing charging infrastructure is no problem with the HecPay Eco The target group includes cities and municipalities companies with customer and employee parking spaces and small charging parks The payment terminal convinces by its high user-friendliness “Customers can easily pay contactless by credit/debit card and smartphone The use of common charging cards and the authorization of station and city cards do not pose any problems either the barrier-free and contactless payment process for ad-hoc charging processes is compliant with the charging pole regulation coming into effect in mid-2023” By means of graphic user guidance drivers of electric vehicles can then select the desired charging pole and gain access to charging options the payment terminal can control numerous charging poles resp an export interface for the flexible cooperation with third-party providers and different backend systems offers maximum integration capacity Backoffice Solutions for Charging with Electricity Hectronic aspires to cover all areas - naturally including the field of e-mobility All Hectronic solutions for e-mobility are thus supported by a backoffice solution The platform-independent and web-based management solution bundles and conveys the fuel and payment terminal data to the office manage master data and create comprehensive reportings thus forming a solid basis for process optimization The intuitive operation and result-oriented user guidance also facilitate the handling for users Take the next steps into e-mobility with Hectronic! 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Use of this website signifies your agreement to the Privacy policy Explore how Hectronic and Diyar United Company have revolutionized UAE's fuel industry with the widespread implementation of Automatic Vehicle Registration systems and PetroPoint technology We are proud to support our UAE customers in the operations of intelligent filling stations Together with our partner Diyar United Company we have installed Automatic Vehicle Registration (AVR) systems at more than 650 stations across the United Arab Emirates (75% of total number of UAE Stations) along with more than 15,000 PetroPoint Nozzle Readers and 1,500 Receivers fuel customers can equip their vehicles with a transponder tag The number of tags installed for our PetroPoint AVR system has grown from a few thousand in 2014 to 1,000,000 by 2024 This impressive growth underscores the reliability and functionality of PetroPoint achieved through the dedicated efforts of our partner and our team Director Smart Fueling Solutions at Diyar United highlights the long-standing partnership: "We are proud of our +15-years partnership with Hectronic that has led to this amazing achievement The nationwide installation base of Hectronic PetroPoint AVR is proof that it's one of the fastest safest and most reliable refuelling methods in the industry" "Our commitment to the region is based on providing proven We are focused on providing reliable solutions that meet and exceed our customers' expectations ensuring operational excellence and efficiency," said Robert Mazuga Director of International Sales for Filling Station Solutions at Hectronic highlighting the critical success factors for this project To know more, visit our website Read 15 years of Mumbai Mirror's journalism here. Continue readingFor 24x7 updates on Mumbai and Maharashtra For reprint rights:Times Syndication Service As a consequence of the pandemic, the number of cashless payment processes in Germany rose sharply last year. (Source: Die Deutsche Kreditwirtshaft). The reason Cash is considered unhygienic and many people fear a transmission of the COVID-19 virus by coins or banknotes more and more consumers recognize how fast and convenient it is to pay for their purchases by card or smartphone As a further incentive for customers to pay cashless the German banking industry raised the limit for contactless girocard transactions without PIN entry from 25 to 50 euros The driver first enters the intended parking time and the license plate via touch display and then pays fast and conveniently by card or mobile phone by holding it near the reading device An acoustic signal confirms the successful transaction the driver receives the parking ticket on their mobile phone via SMS or E-mail An interface between the parking machine and parking space management software informs the inspectors if the driver has paid for a ticket and if it is still valid or has already expired the driver need not take the effort and count the precise amount of cash while the communities can save the highly laborious handling around the collection and safe transportation of the coins With the established model, Citea drivers can still pay with coins and receive a paper parking ticket to be displayed in the car to equip the model fast and easily with additional card payment the door will be replaced so that the machine has a card reader just like the CiteaPico Hectronic offers a complete range of products and services in the fields of parking management and petrol station management and is a world leader in terms of quality and innovation the company headquarters in Bonndorf in the Black Forest as well as five further locations in Switzerland the company with German-Swiss roots is internationally positioned and active in numerous markets This includes economic contacts all over the world and more than 70 partners in sales and service around the globe