Case Study: Downtown Somerville Alliance achieves fully-integrated, data-driven smart parking and 99%+ uptime with IPS Group, Inc.

Borough’s Parking Flourishes with Fully-Integrated Parking Management

Downtown Somerville Alliance, representing Somerville’s busy Main Street district, faced a disconnected, labor‑intensive parking system of coin‑only meters and disparate pay stations that lacked centralized data, real‑time alerts, or remote configuration. To modernize and scale parking management, they selected IPS Group, Inc.’s Fully‑Integrated Parking Management Suite, including IPS credit‑card enabled M5 single‑space meters, MS1 multi‑space pay stations, the PARK SMARTER™ mobile app, and the IPS Next‑Generation Data Management System (DMS).

IPS Group, Inc. deployed wirelessly connected smart meters, pay stations, mobile payments and a consolidated DMS, giving Somerville real‑time analytics, remote configuration and faster fault resolution. The upgrade raised meter uptime to over 99%, shifted more than 40% of transactions to credit/debit cards, reduced operational labor, increased parking turnover to support downtown businesses, and delivered responsive IPS support to keep the system running.

Downtown Somerville Alliance

Beth Anne Macdonald

Executive Director