Through a collaboration agreement signed last Friday by Javier Font, the Chairman of FAMMA Cocemfe Madrid (Madrid Regional Federation of Associations of Physically and Organically Handicapped People) and Ángel Guerra, Director General of SICE (Sociedad Ibérica de Construcciones Eléctricas, S.A.), the two entities begin a technological collaboration which will be of benefit to all handicapped people.
SICE is putting the final touches to a system for the control of handicapped parking bays, based on the use of a microchip embedded in the parking card which sends signals to a receiver located in one of the reserved parking signs. Notification is sent to an operations centre informing of whether the identification of the card is correct or not, therefore allowing local police to control the use of reserved bays.
FAMMA is to collaborate in this new technology as an end user and also by carrying out promotion and awareness tasks with different town councils and other public administrations in the region of Madrid, with a view to them contracting this new control system.
SICE and FAMMA will begin to test this system with the collaboration of Pozuelo de Alarcón Town
Council, which has been highly receptive to this innovation and which will become one of the first
councils to experiment with this new technology system for the control of reserved parking bays.
