SPEL, a Czech engineering and systems company based in Kolín, uses Fleximodo sensors to monitor truck parking bays on motorway rest areas in the Czech Republic. Each bay has an in-ground IoT Parking Sensor Standard running dedicated truck firmware, so operators and drivers can see which truck spaces are free.
At a glance
| Location | Motorway rest areas, Czech Republic (SPEL, Kolín) |
| Sector | Truck parking on the motorway network |
| Products | IoT Parking Sensor Standard, in-ground, with radar-only truck firmware |
| Connectivity | LoRaWAN, with NB-IoT roaming connectivity |
| Scale | Truck bays across rest areas (count to confirm) |
Why a dedicated truck firmware?
Truck parking uses the same Standard sensor as car parking, with firmware built for trucks. That firmware detects with radar only.
A car sits low over a sensor, and a magnetometer picks up its steel body clearly. A truck or trailer is a different target: much of its metal sits high above the road and the vehicle is far longer than a car bay. Radar measures what is directly above the sensor, so it gives a clean "occupied" or "free" signal under a high trailer. Running the truck mode as firmware means the same hardware serves both uses, and the mode can be changed without swapping the sensor.
Why in-ground sensors at a rest area?
Rest area bays carry fully loaded trucks every day and night, year round. An in-ground sensor sits flush with the surface, so wheels roll over it and there is nothing to break off. The housing is rated IK10 for impact and IP68 against water and dust, which covers standing water, salt and grit in winter.
Nothing is visible on the surface either, so the bay layout and markings stay as they are.
What the data is for
Drivers in the EU must take their rest breaks on time, and finding a free truck bay on a busy motorway is hard, especially in the evening. Bay-level occupancy lets a rest area operator show free spaces ahead of arrival and see how full each site gets over the day.
SPEL, as the integrator, can pass the data to the systems it runs through the Fleximodo API.
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