The Full Fleximodo Order History of Geosparc Belgium: Eight Orders From an NB-IoT Pilot to Cross-Border Distribution (2023–2025)

Deployment Snapshot

---

Order / Deployment Timeline

---

The Client

Geosparc BV is a Belgian geospatial software and IoT integration company founded in 2008, headquartered at Molenweidestraat 24 in Heusden (Destelbergen), just outside Ghent. The company's core competency is transforming geospatial and sensor data into operational intelligence for government and infrastructure clients. Its flagship product in this space is Parktrack, a parking analytics platform that aggregates IoT sensor data to monitor, analyse, and optimise urban parking infrastructure for Flemish municipalities including Kortrijk, Leuven, and Hasselt. Over the course of an eight-order, 30-month Fleximodo relationship, Geosparc evolved from a company testing a single sensor technology into a dual-radio integrator that manages a large, actively maintained parking sensor fleet — and, most recently, into a cross-border distribution point for Fleximodo hardware in Europe.

Phase 1 (2023): From NB-IoT Pilot to Production Deployment

Geosparc's relationship with Fleximodo began in June 2023 with a small evaluation order of NB-IoT in-ground parking sensors. That first, modest batch existed to validate the technology within the Parktrack platform: confirming parking occupancy detection accuracy, NB-IoT reliability across Belgian cellular networks, and data integration with Geosparc's geospatial backend.

The pilot worked. Just three months later, in September 2023, Geosparc placed a substantially larger production order — still NB-IoT, still OPEX-free, but scaled to equip production-grade parking zones across multiple municipalities that had progressed from pilot approval to full deployment. This rapid pilot-to-production jump reflects a common pattern in Belgian municipal procurement: a small technical pilot funded from an innovation budget, followed by full deployment funded from operational infrastructure budgets once the pilot demonstrates value.

The OPEX-free pricing model chosen for both 2023 orders was strategically important. As a platform company, Geosparc builds its commercial model on Parktrack SaaS subscriptions sold to municipalities. Paying upfront for lifetime sensor connectivity, rather than accepting a recurring per-sensor backend fee, means Geosparc controls its own cost structure entirely — there are no Fleximodo backend charges layered onto what Geosparc bills its municipal clients. That distinction — platform operator versus reseller — shaped how Geosparc would structure nearly every order that followed.

Phase 2 (2024): LoRaWAN Expansion, Volume Growth, and Field-Level Flexibility

By mid-2024, Geosparc's NB-IoT fleet had grown large enough that per-sensor cellular costs began to matter at scale. In June 2024, the company placed its third order and made a deliberate infrastructure decision: switching new sensor procurement to LoRaWAN. Operating its own LoRaWAN gateways let Geosparc eliminate per-sensor cellular fees, control network uptime and data latency, and offer municipalities a fully independent parking infrastructure. That same order introduced firmware version 19 (FW 19), a specialised firmware variant optimised to detect trailers and caravans rather than standard passenger vehicles — a capability aimed squarely at Belgian coastal and recreational municipalities that deal with seasonal trailer congestion in time-limited parking zones.

The following month, July 2024, Geosparc placed a fourth order that continued the FW 19 LoRaWAN build-out and crossed a significant volume threshold: the fleet's pricing moved from the 150–499-sensor tier into the 500–999-sensor tier. Combined, the June and July 2024 orders pushed Geosparc's total sensor count past 500 units, making Parktrack one of the largest LoRaWAN parking sensor networks in the Benelux region within about thirteen months of the original pilot.

Growth was not only about big sensor batches. In August 2024, Geosparc placed its fifth order — a standalone, minimal top-up of On-Surface Adaptors, the smallest single order in the relationship to date. Rather than signalling a slowdown, this kind of small, rapid, single-component order is characteristic of a maturing operational deployment: procurement driven by installation-day field requirements rather than planning cycles. The Surface Adaptor itself is a mounting accessory that lets Fleximodo's in-ground sensors be installed on surfaces where core-drilling is impossible or undesirable — heritage paving, asphalt overlays, temporary event parking, or accessibility bays. Critically, the adaptor changes only the mounting method: the same magnetometer-and-radar dual detection technology and the same accuracy apply whether a sensor is buried in-ground or mounted via an adaptor.

By December 2024, Geosparc's sixth order marked a deliberate rebalancing: after a year focused on LoRaWAN, the company added NB-IoT in-ground sensors back into its inventory, alongside further Surface Adaptors, shipped to Belgium as two separate insured parcels. This connectivity diversification reflects a mature integrator's logic — LoRaWAN suits private-network, closed-site deployments with amortised gateway costs, while NB-IoT suits distributed outdoor sites where installing a gateway would add unnecessary delay. By stocking both a LoRaWAN parking sensor and an NB-IoT parking sensor product line, Geosparc could serve any future client site regardless of preferred connectivity architecture. The order also confirmed that NB-IoT sensors can be provisioned on a private APN — a dedicated carrier path that keeps sensor traffic off the public internet without the overhead of a self-hosted LoRaWAN network — giving Geosparc a middle option between full gateway self-hosting and standard carrier SIMs.

Phase 3 (2025): Firmware Intelligence and International Reach

Geosparc's seventh order, placed in June 2025, introduced two capabilities that had not appeared in any of the prior six orders. The first was DOTA — Delta Over-the-Air firmware updates — bundled as an included backend service (delivered through Fleximodo's CityPortal management platform) rather than a separate subscription. DOTA sends only the differences between firmware versions instead of full firmware images, typically 5–20% of a full image's size, cutting update bandwidth and battery consumption by a large margin. For an integrator managing a fleet that had grown to several hundred sensors across multiple years of operational lifetime, delta updates are the difference between a firmware update cycle that scales and one that doesn't.

The second new element was a customer-provided SIM strategy: rather than accepting Fleximodo's bundled NB-IoT SIMs, Geosparc began provisioning connectivity through its own channels — likely a Belgian mobile operator or IoT MVNO relationship offering better unit economics — decoupling connectivity procurement entirely from hardware procurement. The order also introduced flush-mount sensors, an installation method that sits at surface level, slightly recessed into the pavement, striking a middle ground between fully in-ground (core-drilled) and fully on-surface (adaptor-mounted) deployment.

The eighth order, placed in December 2025, broke a two-and-a-half-year pattern: every previous Geosparc order had been invoiced and shipped within Belgium. This order — Surface Adaptors only, no sensors — was shipped to Greece. The Belgian entity, Belgian address, and long-standing Fleximodo account remained the same; only the destination changed. This detail reveals a dimension of the relationship that hadn't been visible before: Geosparc operating as a cross-border distributor or reseller, fulfilling a Greek customer's or partner's need for mounting hardware through its own established Fleximodo procurement relationship rather than requiring that customer to order directly. Whatever the exact commercial arrangement behind it, the shipment marks Geosparc's evolution from a single-country integrator into a node that can supply Fleximodo hardware across European borders.

Why Geosparc Kept Coming Back

Across eight orders and 30 months, no single Geosparc order looks like the one before it — and that is precisely the point. Each order solved a specific operational problem revealed by the previous one: a pilot proved the technology, a production order proved it at scale, a protocol switch solved a cost problem, a volume-tier crossing proved the fleet's scale, small top-ups proved the fleet was actually being installed rather than warehoused, a connectivity-diversification order proved flexibility across site types, a DOTA and SIM-strategy order proved long-term operational sustainability, and a cross-border shipment proved the relationship had outgrown a single country. Few Fleximodo customers have used the full breadth of the product line — in-ground, flush-mount, and surface-mounted sensors; NB-IoT and LoRaWAN connectivity; OPEX-free and NO OPEX pricing; and now DOTA firmware management — inside a single, continuously evolving account.

Technical Profile: In-Ground and Flush-Mount Parking Sensors (NB-IoT and LoRaWAN)

Specification	Detail
Detection method	3-axis magnetometer parking sensor combined with 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; 10-year lifetime across the wider Fleximodo product line)
Connectivity	NB-IoT (carrier SIM or private APN) or LoRaWAN Class A/B/C
Firmware options	FW 19 (trailer/caravan detection); DOTA-enabled delta firmware updates via CityPortal
Installation modes	In-ground (core-drilled), flush-mount (surface-level, slightly recessed), or on-surface via Surface Adaptor
Ingress protection	IP68
Impact resistance	IK10
Weight endurance	Up to 8 tonnes
Operating temperature	-40 to +85 °C
Pricing models used by Geosparc	OPEX-free and NO OPEX (hardware-owned, no recurring per-sensor backend fees)

Maintaining 99.96% detection accuracy across a -40°C to +85°C operating range depends on automatic temperature compensation. This is the firmware feature that continuously recalibrates a magnetometer parking sensor's baseline magnetic-field reading as ambient and ground temperature shift, offsetting the drift that heat and cold otherwise induce. Without it, seasonal extremes — a real factor across Belgium's climate and relevant wherever Fleximodo hardware is deployed, including Greece — could cause a smart parking sensor to misread an empty bay as occupied, or vice versa. It applies identically whether the sensor is in-ground, flush-mount, or surface-adaptor-mounted, and whether it is running standard vehicle detection or FW 19 trailer detection.

Technical Profile: On-Surface Adaptor

Specification	Detail
Function	Mounts the IoT Parking Sensor Standard on any existing surface without core-drilling
Compatible sensors	Fleximodo IoT Parking Sensor Standard — both NB-IoT parking sensor and LoRaWAN parking sensor variants
Typical use cases	Heritage/cobblestone municipal surfaces, asphalt overlays, temporary or event parking, accessibility bays
Effect on detection	None — the same magnetometer-and-radar dual detection technology and 99.96% accuracy apply regardless of mounting method
Warranty	1 year standard

Technical Profile: DOTA (Delta Over-the-Air) Firmware Updates

Specification	Detail
Update mechanism	Sends only the differences ("deltas") between the currently deployed and target firmware versions
Typical delta size	5-20% of a full firmware image
Bandwidth saving	Roughly 80-95% versus full over-the-air updates
Battery impact	Proportionally reduced, since fewer bytes are transmitted per update
Backend infrastructure	Included with sensor hardware, delivered via CityPortal (CityPortal login gives access to fleet-wide firmware management, no separate DOTA subscription)
Typical use cases	Feature additions, bug fixes, security updates, backend/platform integration changes, connectivity optimisations

---

Fleximodo smart parking technology is deployed in 50+ countries. View all products | See DOTSOFT's Greece deployments | See Netze BW's OPEX-free German deployment | See Telekom Slovenije's OPEX-free signage deployment

---

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Geosparc's Parktrack platform? Parktrack is a parking analytics platform developed by Geosparc BV that aggregates IoT sensor data to monitor, analyse, and optimise municipal parking infrastructure. It serves Flemish municipalities including Kortrijk, Leuven, and Hasselt, transforming real-time parking occupancy detection data into actionable insights for urban planners and traffic managers, and extends Geosparc's core geospatial software expertise into real-time parking management.

Why did Geosparc use OPEX-free and NO OPEX pricing for most of its orders? As a platform company, Geosparc charges municipalities SaaS subscriptions for Parktrack access. OPEX-free and NO OPEX pricing — hardware with lifetime or included backend connectivity and no recurring annual fees — means Geosparc owns its entire cost structure from sensor to dashboard, with no Fleximodo fees compressing its margins. This turns the sensor into a one-time capital purchase rather than a recurring cost, giving Geosparc full commercial independence in how it prices Parktrack to its municipal clients.

Why did Geosparc switch from NB-IoT to LoRaWAN, and then bring NB-IoT back? At a few hundred sensors, LoRaWAN's economics improve because Geosparc's own gateways eliminate per-sensor cellular fees and give it full control over network uptime and data routing — which is why the company switched to LoRaWAN for its third and fourth orders in mid-2024. By the sixth order (December 2024), however, Geosparc added NB-IoT back into its inventory to run a dual-radio fleet: LoRaWAN for private-network, closed-site deployments, and NB-IoT for distributed outdoor sites where installing a gateway isn't practical. Stocking both lets Geosparc match connectivity to whatever a given site actually needs.

What is FW 19 trailer-detection firmware? Firmware version 19 optimises Fleximodo's dual detection technology — magnetometer plus radar — specifically for detecting trailers and caravans, which present different magnetic signatures and occupancy patterns than passenger vehicles. It lets Parktrack differentiate trailer parking from standard vehicle parking, which matters for Belgian coastal and recreational municipalities managing seasonal trailer congestion in time-limited zones.

What does crossing a volume-pricing tier mean? Fleximodo prices sensors in volume brackets (for example, 150-499 units, then 500-999 units). When a customer's cumulative order volume exhausts one bracket and moves into the next, later units are priced at the new tier's rate. Geosparc's fourth order (July 2024) crossed from the 150-499 tier into the 500-999 tier, confirming that its cumulative sensor fleet had passed the 500-unit mark.

What is a Surface Adaptor used for? The Surface Adaptor mounts Fleximodo's in-ground parking sensors on surfaces where core-drilling is impossible or undesirable — heritage paving, asphalt overlays, temporary installations, and accessibility bays. It changes only the mounting method: the sensor's magnetometer-and-radar dual detection technology and its accuracy are unaffected by whether it's buried in-ground or mounted on the surface.

What is DOTA and why does it matter for a large sensor fleet? DOTA (Delta Over-the-Air) is a firmware-update mechanism that transmits only the differences between the currently installed and target firmware versions, rather than a full firmware image. Delta updates are typically 5-20% the size of a full update, cutting bandwidth use by roughly 80-95% and reducing battery impact proportionally. For a fleet of several hundred sensors maintained over multiple years, this is the difference between an operationally manageable firmware-update cycle and an impractical one.

Can Fleximodo NB-IoT sensors run on a private APN or customer-provided SIMs? Yes to both. NB-IoT sensors can be provisioned on a private APN — a dedicated carrier path that keeps sensor traffic off the public internet without requiring a self-hosted gateway network — and integrators can supply their own SIMs instead of using Fleximodo's bundled SIMs. Geosparc adopted a customer-provided SIM strategy from its seventh order onward, decoupling connectivity procurement from hardware procurement for better unit economics and flexibility to change connectivity partners later.

What is flush-mount installation? Flush-mount is an installation method between fully in-ground (core-drilled, permanent) and fully on-surface (adaptor-mounted, reversible): the sensor sits at surface level, slightly recessed into the pavement. It gives the near-invisible appearance of an in-ground sensor with simpler installation logistics, useful where a parking surface can be lightly modified but not deeply excavated.

Why did Geosparc's eighth order ship to Greece instead of Belgium? Every previous Geosparc order was invoiced and shipped within Belgium. The eighth order — Surface Adaptors only — was shipped to Greece, revealing that Geosparc operates, at least in this instance, as a cross-border distributor or reseller: procuring Fleximodo hardware through its established Belgian account on behalf of a customer or partner project in another European market.

What is automatic temperature compensation, and why does it matter for parking sensor accuracy? Automatic temperature compensation is a firmware feature that continuously recalibrates a magnetometer parking sensor's baseline magnetic-field reading as ambient and ground temperature change. Without it, seasonal heat and cold can cause magnetic-field drift that triggers false occupancy readings. Fleximodo's in-ground, flush-mount, and surface-mounted sensors all use automatic temperature compensation to maintain 99.96% detection accuracy across their full -40°C to +85°C operating range — a factor relevant to every climate Geosparc's sensors operate in, from Belgian winters to Mediterranean summers.

Why did Geosparc Belgium keep ordering from Fleximodo? Because each order solved a problem the previous one exposed, rather than simply repeating it. A small 2023 pilot proved sensor accuracy and NB-IoT reliability; a larger 2023 order proved production readiness; a 2024 protocol switch to LoRaWAN solved a cost-at-scale problem and added trailer detection; a second 2024 order confirmed the fleet had crossed 500 sensors; small Surface Adaptor top-ups proved the fleet was genuinely being installed in the field; a connectivity-diversification order added NB-IoT back for site flexibility; a 2025 order added DOTA firmware management and independent SIM sourcing for long-term fleet maintenance; and a final 2025 order extended the relationship across a European border. Eight orders in 30 months made Geosparc one of Fleximodo's most complete customer lifecycles — a relationship that grew in depth and breadth with every purchase rather than plateauing after the first.

---