The Full Fleximodo Order History of CROSS Zlín: 3 Orders From 2023 to 2024

Deployment Snapshot

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Order/Deployment Timeline

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The Client: CROSS Zlín, a.s.

CROSS Zlín, a.s. is a Czech manufacturer of intelligent transport systems (ITS) founded in 1994, headquartered in Zlín with approximately 200 employees and $15M in revenue. The company designs and deploys traffic control systems, parking management platforms, weigh-in-motion technology, road telematics, and road weather systems across five continents.

CROSS Zlín's parking expertise is demonstrated by its flagship Smart Zlín project — a comprehensive parking modernisation initiative that replaced 26 parking machines with card-payment systems, transformed five major parking lots, installed 12 Variable Message Sign (VMS) boards — a digital parking signage network for real-time lot navigation — and integrated surveillance into the city's technical services dispatch centre. This is a company that builds complete urban parking ecosystems, not just individual components, and its relationship with Fleximodo is best read as one continuous deployment rather than three unrelated purchases.

Why CROSS Zlín Started with Fleximodo: Filling the Ground-Level Gap

CROSS Zlín's parking systems traditionally rely on barrier-based counting (entry/exit gates tracking vehicle numbers) and camera-based detection for individual space monitoring. But many Czech municipal parking zones — on-street spaces, open surface lots, and residential permit areas — lack both barriers and camera mounting points. These environments need in-ground parking sensors for ground-level occupancy detection that feed the same digital parking signage and navigation systems CROSS Zlín already operates for its municipal clients.

Adding in-ground parking sensors let CROSS Zlín extend its parking guidance system from managed facilities (car parks with barriers) to unmanaged street parking — a significant capability expansion that opens new municipal contract opportunities. That gap is what brought CROSS Zlín to Fleximodo in November 2023.

Order 1 (November 2023): Evaluation Order Feeding Existing ITS Infrastructure

CROSS Zlín's first order integrated Fleximodo sensors into its intelligent transport platform. The deployment included:

• IoT Parking Sensor Standard (NB-IoT, in-ground) — Production-grade NB-IoT parking sensors providing individual-space occupancy data for on-street and surface lot environments
• 1NCE SIM card connectivity (10-year) — Pre-paid cellular data plans matching the long operational lifecycle of CROSS Zlín's municipal infrastructure deployments. For municipalities needing dedicated network isolation rather than a public roaming SIM, Fleximodo also offers private APN connectivity as an alternative
• IoT Hub (OPEX annual) — Managed backend delivering sensor data through Fleximodo's API for integration with CROSS Zlín's proprietary parking management and VMS systems — the same backend that also underpins Fleximodo's own CityPortal dashboard for municipalities that prefer a ready-made interface over custom integration

This first order equipped an estimated 30-50 sensors — sufficient for a municipal parking zone or a cluster of on-street locations within a Czech city. Choosing the IoT Hub over direct sensor integration signalled that CROSS Zlín intended to consume data through Fleximodo's API first, a common pattern for ITS manufacturers evaluating new sensor hardware before committing to native protocol integration. The 10-year SIM paired with annual OPEX billing suggested a phased commitment from the outset: connectivity locked in for a decade, backend renewable annually as the deployment proved its value.

For CROSS Zlín's municipal clients, the payoff was immediate: the same VMS displays that already showed car park availability from barrier counting could now also show real-time on-street availability from Fleximodo sensors — extending the parking guidance system beyond managed car parks into the city's street parking infrastructure.

Order 2 (17 January 2024): A 2.4x Scale-Up in Two Months

Just two months after the initial order, CROSS Zlín placed a follow-up order 2.4 times larger than the first — a rapid scaling pattern that confirmed successful integration and live municipal demand. With the first zone validated and delivering live data to municipal dashboards, CROSS Zlín needed to equip the next wave of deployment sites: additional zones within the pilot city and potentially new Czech municipalities requesting the same capability.

The second order used the identical configuration as the first — IoT Parking Sensor Standard (NB-IoT), 1NCE SIM (10-year), and IoT Hub (OPEX annual) — at roughly 2.4x the volume, adding an estimated 80-120 sensors and bringing the total fleet to an estimated 110-170 sensors. That is enough to provide on-street parking coverage across an entire mid-sized Czech city, or to equip major zones in two to three municipalities simultaneously.

Continuing to route data through the IoT Hub rather than migrating to direct integration suggested CROSS Zlín's development team was focused on the application layer — building the municipal dashboard, configuring digital signage integration, and refining the user experience — rather than rebuilding the sensor data pipeline. Fleximodo's API delivers processed, reliable data, letting CROSS Zlín concentrate engineering effort on the elements that differentiate its offering from competitors. The two-month interval between the first and second orders (November to January) also matches a typical Czech municipal procurement cycle: initial deployment before year-end, validation over a few weeks, then a scaling order in the new budget year.

Order 3 (March 2024): A Targeted Top-Up Confirming Operational Maturity

CROSS Zlín's third order followed a textbook deployment curve: initial evaluation, major scale-up, and now a targeted top-up. This pattern indicated the Czech municipal deployment was operational and generating organic expansion — specific parking zones or streets being added to the network as municipal clients identified additional monitoring needs.

The third order was small by comparison — an estimated 3-5 additional sensors — but kept the same specification: IoT Parking Sensor Standard (NB-IoT), 1NCE SIM (10-year), and IoT Hub (OPEX annual), managed through Fleximodo's CityPortal platform. A top-up this size represents a targeted expansion: perhaps a single intersection, a newly regulated parking zone, or a replacement for sensors damaged during construction. This type of micro-order is characteristic of live, operational systems — the deployment is running, municipalities are using the data, and small adjustments are being made as the network matures.

Three orders across five months confirm CROSS Zlín as a committed Fleximodo integrator within the Czech ITS market. The identical specification across all three orders demonstrates complete standardisation — CROSS Zlín treats Fleximodo's smart parking sensors as a plug-and-play component within its intelligent transport platform, and each new order simply extends a proven configuration rather than re-evaluating alternatives.

Fleximodo IoT Parking Sensor Standard In-ground 2.0: Technical Profile

Specification	Detail
Detection method	3-axis magnetic field + nanoradar (dual detection technology)
Detection accuracy	99.96%
Dimensions	115 mm diameter, height 64 mm
Weight	390 g
Battery	3.6 V, 13-19 Ah (6-year operational lifetime)
Connectivity	NB-IoT (with 1NCE 10-year SIM)
Ingress protection	IP68
Impact resistance	IK10
Weight endurance	Up to 8 tonnes
Operating temperature	-40 to +85 °C
Certifications	ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, DNV, CE, FCC

This NB-IoT parking sensor is a magnetometer parking sensor at its core, combining a 3-axis magnetometer with nanoradar — Fleximodo's dual detection technology for reliable parking occupancy detection. Czech winters and summers put real strain on magnetometer-based sensors, since heat and cold both shift the local magnetic-field baseline enough to cause false vacant/occupied readings.

What is automatic temperature compensation? It is the onboard calibration process Fleximodo's magnetometer parking sensors use to continuously adjust for magnetic-field drift caused by ambient and pavement temperature swings. Without it, thermally induced drift could be misread as a vehicle arriving or leaving; with it, CROSS Zlín's sensors hold 99.96% accuracy across the full -40 to +85 °C operating range through a complete Czech seasonal cycle — which is part of why a mature deployment like this one needed only small, infrequent top-ups (like Order 3) rather than recurring accuracy fixes as the fleet scaled from tens to well over a hundred units.

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Fleximodo smart parking technology is deployed in 50+ countries. View all products | S O NAH — German smart parking with NB-IoT + 1NCE | Stadt Ulm — German municipal LoRaWAN deployment | multiGuide — Parking guidance integrator with Fleximodo | MASTER IT Technologies — Czech Mini sensor deployment

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is CROSS Zlín? CROSS Zlín is a Czech manufacturer of intelligent transport systems founded in 1994, with approximately 200 employees and deployments across five continents. The company builds traffic control, parking management, weigh-in-motion, and road weather systems. Its Smart Zlín project modernised the city's entire parking infrastructure with card-payment systems, digital parking signage (Variable Message Signs), and integrated surveillance — demonstrating full-stack urban parking management capability.

How many Fleximodo orders has CROSS Zlín placed, and how did the deployment grow? Three orders in five months: an initial evaluation order (November 2023, an estimated 30-50 sensors), a major scale-up 2.4x that size (17 January 2024, an estimated 80-120 additional sensors), and a targeted zone-expansion top-up (March 2024, an estimated 3-5 sensors). All three used an identical NB-IoT + 1NCE + IoT Hub configuration, bringing the total fleet to an estimated 115-175 sensors.

Why did CROSS Zlín keep ordering from Fleximodo? Because the first order worked. The pilot zone validated cleanly against CROSS Zlín's existing parking management and digital signage platform, so the company scaled 2.4x within two months rather than evaluating alternative vendors. By March 2024 the deployment was mature enough that new orders were small, targeted top-ups rather than fresh evaluations — the signature of a standardised, trusted component being extended as needed rather than a technology still being proven out.

How does CROSS Zlín integrate Fleximodo sensors with its existing systems? Fleximodo NB-IoT parking sensors provide individual-space occupancy data through the managed IoT Hub API. CROSS Zlín integrates this data into its existing parking management platform and digital signage network — the same infrastructure that already displays car park availability from barrier counting. This extends the parking guidance system from managed facilities to on-street and surface lot environments where barriers and cameras are absent.

Why is the 10-year 1NCE SIM important for ITS deployments? Intelligent transport infrastructure operates on municipal contract cycles of 5-10+ years. The 10-year pre-paid SIM eliminates connectivity renegotiation and cost uncertainty throughout the deployment's operational life — critical for ITS manufacturers like CROSS Zlín that commit to long-term municipal service agreements and need predictable operating costs across their entire sensor fleet as it scales.

Why did a small top-up order follow two large ones? This is characteristic of live operational systems. The deployment was running, municipalities were using the data, and small top-ups addressed specific needs — a new intersection, a newly regulated zone, or replacement sensors — rather than signalling any slowdown. It confirms the system had moved from deployment into steady operation.

What is automatic temperature compensation? Automatic temperature compensation is the onboard calibration built into Fleximodo's in-ground parking sensors that continuously adjusts the magnetometer's baseline reading as ambient and pavement temperature change. Without it, seasonal heat or cold could shift a magnetic-field reading enough to be mistaken for a vehicle event; with it, sensors like CROSS Zlín's NB-IoT parking sensors maintain 99.96% accuracy year-round across the full -40 to +85 °C range.

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