How MASTER IT Technologies Deployed Fleximodo Mini LoRaWAN Parking Sensors for Czech Smart Parking Infrastructure

Deployment Snapshot

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The Client

MASTER IT Technologies, a.s. is a Czech IT services company founded in 2008, headquartered in Ostrava — the industrial capital of the Moravian-Silesian region. With approximately €2M annual revenue and a focused team, the company specialises in IT infrastructure, software development, IoT solutions, and systems integration for enterprise and public sector clients.

MASTER IT's public sector portfolio is particularly relevant: the company has delivered data centre infrastructure and security solutions for Nemocnice Havířov (Havířov Hospital), maintains a long-term technology partnership with Dopravní podnik Ostrava (Ostrava Public Transport Authority), and supplied and installed 124 information display panels for Dopravní podnik Bratislava (Bratislava Public Transport). The company's participation in the Urbis Smart City Fair confirms its active positioning in the Czech municipal technology market.

The Challenge: Equipping Czech Municipal Parking with Rapid-Deploy Surface Sensors

The Moravian-Silesian region — centred on Ostrava, the Czech Republic's third-largest city — faces parking pressure in its urban centres: Ostrava, Havířov, Karviná, and Opava all have compact city centres with limited parking infrastructure and growing demand. Traditional barrier-based systems cover paid car parks, but on-street parking and surface lots remain unmonitored, with no automated parking occupancy detection at all.

MASTER IT's existing relationships with Czech transport authorities provide a natural pathway for smart parking sensor deployment — the same municipal clients that need information displays for bus stops also need occupancy detection for parking zones. But deploying in-ground parking sensors across Czech streets requires excavation permits and road-closure coordination that can delay projects for months. Surface-mount Mini sensors offer a faster path to deployment.

The Solution: Large Mini Sensor Fleet with Managed Backend for Municipal Integration

MASTER IT's December 2023 order is one of the largest Mini sensor procurements in Fleximodo's records.

The deployment included:

• IoT Parking Sensor Mini (LoRaWAN) — Compact surface-mount smart parking sensors requiring no road cutting, connecting through LoRaWAN gateway infrastructure as a LoRaWAN parking sensor solution
• IoT Hub (OPEX annual per sensor) — Managed CityPortal backend with API, customer support included, providing processed sensor data for integration with MASTER IT's municipal platform

This order represents an estimated 80-120 Mini sensors — a substantial fleet for a company entering the smart parking market. The volume suggests this is not a pilot but a committed production deployment, likely equipping multiple parking zones across one or more Moravian-Silesian cities.

The LoRaWAN connectivity choice aligns with MASTER IT's integration capability. As an IT services company, MASTER IT has the technical capacity to deploy and manage LoRaWAN gateway infrastructure — unlike some municipal clients who prefer NB-IoT's gateway-free cellular approach. Operating its own LoRaWAN network gives MASTER IT control over connectivity costs and data routing, which is important when serving multiple municipal clients from a single infrastructure.

The IoT Hub OPEX with customer support indicates MASTER IT is consuming Fleximodo's processed data via API rather than building its own sensor data pipeline. This is a pragmatic approach for a company entering a new vertical: leverage the sensor manufacturer's proven CityPortal backend while focusing internal development effort on the municipal-facing application layer.

Fleximodo IoT Parking Sensor Mini: Technical Profile

Specification	Detail
Detection method	3-axis magnetic field + nanoradar (dual detection technology)
Detection accuracy	99.7%
Dimensions	95 × 95 × 65 mm
Weight	230 g
Battery	3.6 V, 13 Ah (6-year operational lifetime)
Connectivity	LoRaWAN Class A/B/C
Installation	Surface-mount (no drilling required)
Ingress protection	IP67
Operating temperature	-40 to +85 °C

The magnetometer element of this dual detection technology is what makes the wide -40 to +85 °C operating range meaningful in practice. Magnetic-field-based occupancy sensors can be sensitive to temperature-driven drift — the earth's magnetic field reading a magnetometer relies on can shift subtly as ambient heat or cold changes the sensor's internal electronics and materials. Fleximodo's Mini sensors address this with automatic temperature compensation: onboard logic continuously recalibrates the magnetometer's baseline against temperature swings, so a hot Ostrava summer afternoon or a Moravian-Silesian winter freeze doesn't register as a false vehicle-present or vehicle-absent reading. This is a core reason the sensor family maintains accuracy figures as high as 99.96% on the in-ground Standard variant across the full seasonal temperature range, rather than only in laboratory conditions.

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Fleximodo smart parking technology is deployed in 30+ countries. View all products | CROSS Zlín — Czech ITS manufacturer with Fleximodo NB-IoT parking sensors | Smart City Solutions — German LoRaWAN operator with Fleximodo Mini sensors

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is MASTER IT Technologies? MASTER IT Technologies is an Ostrava-based Czech IT services company (est. 2008, ~€2M revenue) specialising in infrastructure, IoT, and systems integration. The company has long-term partnerships with Czech and Slovak public transport authorities (Ostrava, Bratislava), healthcare facilities, and smart city initiatives. Smart parking extends its municipal portfolio from information displays to parking infrastructure.

Why did MASTER IT choose Mini sensors over Standard in-ground parking sensors? Mini sensors install on the parking surface without road cutting — avoiding the excavation permits and road-closure coordination required for in-ground sensor installation in Czech municipalities. At 80-120 sensors, the deployment can be completed in days rather than months, critical for a company entering the smart parking sensor market and needing rapid results to demonstrate capability to municipal clients.

What is automatic temperature compensation, and why does it matter for this deployment? Automatic temperature compensation is onboard sensor logic that recalibrates a magnetometer's baseline reading as ambient temperature changes, preventing heat- or cold-driven magnetic-field drift from being misread as a vehicle arriving or leaving. For a LoRaWAN parking sensor operating across the Moravian-Silesian region's full seasonal range (-40 to +85 °C), this compensation is what keeps detection accuracy consistent from summer to winter rather than degrading in temperature extremes.

Is Fleximodo deployed in the Czech Republic? Yes. Both MASTER IT Technologies (Ostrava, Mini LoRaWAN sensors) and CROSS Zlín (NB-IoT Standard sensors with 1NCE SIMs) deployed Fleximodo in the Czech Republic in late 2023. The two companies represent different segments: MASTER IT serving municipal parking in the Moravian-Silesian region, CROSS Zlín integrating sensors into its intelligent transport systems deployed across five continents.

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