In a telephonic interaction with MediaNama, Rasik Pansare, co-founder and CMO of Get My Parking, talked about the parking problems in the country, as well as the regulatory, financial and organisational challenges a startup goes through having set up base in India. Get My Parking (Agile Parking Solutions Pvt Ltd) is a digital platform which allows integration of parking equipment with mobile and cloud — this is especially useful for parking operators looking to digitise and car–owners looking to find empty parking spots in urban areas. The startup claims to be present in 4 countries and process 2 million transactions monthly. It also works with city governments to provide smart parking from the Smart City plans. The following is a lightly edited, and at some instances, paraphrased transcript of our interaction. Emphasis has been added. Get My Parking works with system integrators (technology providers), coordinating with government officials and including policy and taxpayer wishlists for smart parking in smart cities, according to Pansare. The company calls itself an end to end smart parking platform where, in order to get information about (manually operated) parking lots, the ecosystem has to be connected and getting live information from the on-ground parking lots. Pansare adds that his company wanted to digitise the parking industry in a frugal manner, because automated parking lots and technologies, like those in the West, are not financially viable in developing countries. On how Get My Parking digitises a parking lot (We) put a mobile app on every parking…
