Suwanee Smart Parking: Mixed-Sensor US Deployment

Deployment Snapshot (Cumulative)

Field	Value
Client	CONURE TELECOM SERVICES, LLC
HQ	Suwanee (Johns Creek area), Georgia, USA
Industry	IoT and smart city solutions
Products deployed (combined)	IoT Parking Sensor Mini (LoRaWAN), IoT Parking Sensor Standard (LoRaWAN, in-ground), IoT Permit Card (BLE)
Connectivity	LoRaWAN, BLE
Deployment type	Repeat customer — evaluation order followed by mixed-sensor production expansion
Number of orders	2 (December 2023, February 2024)
Growth between orders	~16× increase in order size
Deployment footprint	US municipal streets, hospital campuses, university lots, and permit-controlled residential zones

Order / Deployment Timeline

Order	Date	Products / What Changed	Significance
Order 1	December 2023	IoT Parking Sensor Mini (LoRaWAN) + IoT Permit Card (BLE)	First order: a small evaluation batch pairing surface-mount Mini LoRaWAN sensors with BLE Permit Cards, testing Fleximodo hardware inside ParkSmart's existing LoRaWAN infrastructure and adding vehicle identification for permit enforcement
Order 2	February 2024	IoT Parking Sensor Standard (LoRaWAN, in-ground) added, alongside further Mini sensors and Permit Cards	Massive mixed-sensor expansion order — roughly 16× the size of the first order — introducing in-ground sensors for permanent installations; the first order of this scale to combine both sensor types plus Permit Cards, and one of Fleximodo's two largest individual orders globally

The Client

Conure Telecom Services (also operating as Conure Technology Services) is a Georgia-based IoT and smart infrastructure company founded in 2015-2016, with 51-200 employees and $5-25M in annual revenue. The company specializes in end-to-end smart city solutions spanning proof-of-concept through full deployment, with operations across North America.

Conure's parking technology portfolio is notably comprehensive. The company operates ParkSmart — an AI-driven parking guidance platform using LoRaWAN parking sensors for real-time occupancy detection — alongside OLIOS (license plate recognition for enforcement), HIVE (smart building management), and Calamus (permit management). ParkSmart won a Smart 20 Award for its deployment at St. Pete Beach, Florida, where it transformed the city's parking infrastructure, and has since been deployed at locations including Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Minneapolis city parking, and multiple university campuses.

Order 1 (December 2023): Proving the Platform With Mini Sensors and Permit Cards

Conure's ParkSmart platform needed reliable, long-battery-life sensors that could be deployed rapidly across diverse American environments — from Florida beach parking to Minneapolis city lots to university campuses. Rather than committing to in-ground hardware right away, Conure needed compact, surface-mountable smart parking sensors that avoid the road-cutting permits required for in-ground parking sensors in US municipalities, where utility coordination and ADA compliance add significant time and cost to core-drilling. It also wanted vehicle identification cards that would integrate with its existing Calamus permit management system.

The solution was a first order combining two complementary Fleximodo products:

• IoT Parking Sensor Mini (LoRaWAN) — Compact surface-mount sensors requiring no road cutting, connecting through Conure's LoRaWAN gateway infrastructure to feed the ParkSmart AI platform with real-time occupancy data. Unlike in-ground parking sensors, this LoRaWAN parking sensor bonds directly to the surface, avoiding excavation permits entirely.
• IoT Permit Card (BLE) — Wireless vehicle identification cards integrating with Conure's Calamus parking enforcement software, enabling automated enforcement at permit-controlled sites such as university campuses and residential zones.

The Mini sensor choice was strategically significant for Conure's US deployment model. American municipalities typically require excavation permits, utility locates, and ADA compliance reviews before any road-cutting work needed to install in-ground parking sensors — a process that can take weeks and cost thousands of dollars per site. Surface-mount Mini sensors eliminate this entirely: adhesive bonding to the parking surface requires no permits, no utility coordination, and no ADA review, letting Conure install sensors in hours rather than weeks — critical for a company deploying across geographically dispersed US sites.

The Permit Card addition connected directly to Conure's existing capabilities. The company already operated Calamus for digital permit management and OLIOS for license plate recognition; adding BLE Permit Cards created a third identification method that works independently of cameras, particularly useful in outdoor lots where camera mounting and power infrastructure may be unavailable.

This first order marked Fleximodo's entry into the US municipal smart parking sensor market through a partner that had already proven the commercial model at St. Pete Beach and multiple other American sites — an evaluation batch designed to test the hardware within ParkSmart's existing LoRaWAN infrastructure before scaling further.

Order 2 (February 2024): A Massive Mixed-Sensor Expansion

Two months later, the evaluation had clearly succeeded. Conure placed a follow-up order that dwarfed its December 2023 initial procurement by roughly 16× — a single order that matches Multiconnect's December 2023 Portuguese mega-order as one of the two largest individual Fleximodo procurements globally, and represents the largest US smart parking sensor order in Fleximodo's records.

By this point, Conure's US client base spanned fundamentally different parking environments: on-street municipal parking (St. Pete Beach, Minneapolis), hospital campuses (Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare), university lots, and commercial properties. Each environment carries different installation constraints — some allow in-ground installation, others need surface-mount, and many require vehicle identification for permit enforcement. No single sensor type could serve all of these environments at once.

Conure's answer was a three-product mix combining all three Fleximodo detection products — in-ground parking sensors, surface-mount LoRaWAN parking sensors, and BLE Permit Cards — the first order of this scale to include both sensor types plus Permit Cards:

• IoT Parking Sensor Standard (LoRaWAN, in-ground) — For permanent installations where road cutting is feasible: municipal streets with permits secured, hospital campus roads, and university car parks with established infrastructure. As an in-ground parking sensor, this is the higher-accuracy option for locations that can accommodate core drilling.
• IoT Parking Sensor Mini (LoRaWAN) — For rapid-deploy locations where surface mounting is required: temporary configurations, indoor facilities, and sites where excavation permits are prohibitive.
• IoT Permit Card (BLE) — For campus and residential permit zones where vehicle identification is needed alongside occupancy detection, complementing the parking enforcement software workflows Conure already runs through OLIOS and Calamus.
• Insured shipping to the US.

The three-product mix reveals Conure's maturation as a Fleximodo partner. The December 2023 order (Mini + Permit Cards only) was essentially an evaluation batch — testing the hardware within ParkSmart's existing LoRaWAN infrastructure. Two months later, Conure ordered roughly 16× more and added Standard in-ground sensors to the fleet, confirming that the evaluation succeeded and that Conure is now deploying Fleximodo across its entire US project pipeline.

This second order likely includes several hundred sensors plus a substantial Permit Card fleet — enough to equip multiple US cities and campus sites simultaneously. The LoRaWAN connectivity across all sensors means Conure can manage its entire fleet through its existing gateway infrastructure, maintaining the unified ParkSmart AI platform across every deployment.

The 16× scale-up in two months — from a small evaluation batch to a full production order — is one of the fastest partner acceleration trajectories in Fleximodo's history. It places the United States alongside Portugal and Germany as a major Fleximodo deployment market, with Conure as the primary US channel partner.

Why the Relationship Kept Growing

Conure doesn't need to validate whether smart parking works in the US — ParkSmart already has paying municipal clients at St. Pete Beach and beyond. What it needed was better, more reliable sensor hardware to scale a platform that already worked. Starting with a low-risk Mini sensor and Permit Card order let Conure validate Fleximodo hardware inside its existing LoRaWAN and Calamus workflows without committing to permanent in-ground installations. Once that evaluation proved out, the February 2024 order let Conure equip every environment type in its pipeline — permanent municipal and campus roads with in-ground Standard sensors, rapid-deploy or indoor sites with Mini sensors, and permit-controlled zones with BLE Permit Cards — from a single, unified sensor vendor.

Technical Profile: Sensors Side by Side

Both the Standard and Mini sensors share Fleximodo's dual detection technology, pairing a 3-axis magnetometer with nanoradar for parking occupancy detection that resists the false positives which affect single-sensor designs.

Specification	Sensor Standard (In-ground)	Sensor Mini (Surface-mount)
Detection method	3-axis magnetic field + nanoradar (dual-sensing)	3-axis magnetic field + nanoradar (dual-sensing)
Detection accuracy	99.96%	99.7%
Dimensions	115 mm diameter, height 64 mm	95 × 95 × 65 mm
Weight	390 g	230 g
Battery	3.6 V, 13-19 Ah (6-year operational lifetime)	3.6 V, 13 Ah (6-year operational lifetime)
Connectivity	LoRaWAN Class A/B/C	LoRaWAN Class A/B/C
Installation	In-ground (core drilling required)	Surface-mount (no drilling required)
Ingress protection	IP68	IP67
Impact resistance	IK10	—
Weight endurance	Up to 8 tonnes	—
Operating temperature	-40 to +85 °C	-40 to +85 °C

Both sensor models are magnetometer parking sensors at their core, and magnetometer readings can drift with temperature: summer asphalt heat and winter cold both shift the local magnetic-field baseline enough to cause false vacant/occupied readings on lesser designs. Fleximodo's sensors counter this with automatic temperature compensation — an onboard calibration routine that continuously re-centers the magnetic-field baseline as ambient temperature changes. This is how the Standard sensor holds 99.96% accuracy and the Mini holds 99.7% accuracy across the full -40 to +85 °C operating range, whether the asphalt is baking in a St. Pete Beach summer or frozen through a Minneapolis winter, instead of degrading in extreme heat or cold.

Technical Profile: IoT Permit Card 2.1 (BLE)

Specification	Detail
Dimensions	32.5 × 62.5 × 20 mm
Weight	20 g
Battery	Li-SOCl2, 1200 mAh, 3.6 V (9.5-year lifetime)
Communication	BLE + UWB (dual-radio)
Transmission range	30 metres
Ingress protection	IP67
Operating temperature	-40 to +75 °C
Security	Anti-cloning protection

Fleximodo smart parking technology is deployed in 30+ countries. View all products | Multiconnect — Portugal's record-setting deployment | MeteoScientific — US LoRaWAN partner with Fleximodo