Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions, the enterprise ICT arm of Deutsche Telekom based in Bonn, uses Fleximodo in-ground parking sensors in its IoT work in Germany. The project started with a pilot at Hannover-Dedensen in 2023 and moved to a wider rollout in 2024.
What problem did Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions need to solve?
It needed parking hardware it could deploy beyond a single test site. Deutsche Telekom Business Solutions delivers managed IT, cloud, security and IoT services to corporate and public-sector customers. Parking occupancy is one of the IoT use cases those customers ask for, and the 2023 pilot gave the team a way to test Fleximodo sensors inside the Deutsche Telekom environment before going further.
A pilot answers practical questions. Does the sensor detect vehicles reliably in German weather? Does it stay connected? Does the data arrive in a form the team can use? The 2024 rollout used the same product family, so the hardware that went through the pilot is the hardware in the field.
What was installed?
The rollout uses the IoT Parking Sensor Standard, Fleximodo's in-ground sensor. Each unit sits in a core drilled into the bay surface and reports whether the space is free or occupied.
- Detection: a 3-axis magnetometer combined with radar. Using two methods reduces false readings from passing traffic or nearby metal.
- Housing: IP68 sealing and IK10 impact rating, rated for loads of up to 8 tonnes.
- Operating range: -40 to +85 °C, with automatic temperature compensation so seasonal heat and frost do not register as vehicle events.
- Connectivity: cellular NB-IoT, which means no gateways to install on site.
Fleximodo sensors run at 99.96% detection accuracy across more than 71,000 installed units in 50+ countries.
What does the operator get from it?
Bay-level occupancy data, delivered over a mobile network the operator already understands. For a telecom-group company, NB-IoT keeps the connectivity layer inside familiar infrastructure: no private radio network to plan, and each sensor connects as soon as it is installed.
The data can feed a parking dashboard, a guidance app or a customer's own system through Fleximodo's integrations and API. That matters for a services company, which often has to deliver parking data into a platform the end customer already runs. Typical uses on municipal and corporate sites include showing drivers where free bays are, measuring how often spaces turn over, and giving facility teams evidence for decisions on capacity.
Deutsche Telekom group companies in other markets also run Fleximodo sensors, for example OTE in Athens and T-Mobile in Prague.