ParkerData API Provides Open Access to 20,000+ U.S. Garage and Lot Parking Locations to Car Companies and App Developers

FOSTER CITY, Calif., June 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Streetline, Inc., the leading global provider of smart parking solutions, today released ParkerData™, a free application programming interface (API) enabling developers to add parking data to websites, mobile apps, software, and other applications. Using this free API, developers can access basic information (such as garage facility location, rates, policy, and hours of operation) for more than 20,000 unique parking locations across 400 U.S. cities. With the release of ParkerData, Streetline aims to spark the imagination for how parking data can be integrated into a variety of channels, challenging the development community to showcase their ideas and fueling a movement to integrate parking information everywhere.

"With the release of the ParkerData API, Streetline aims to provide developers with a playground to experiment," said Zia Yusuf, President & CEO of Streetline. "By making basic garage and lot parking data easily accessible and free, we believe we'll see some interesting ideas emerge for how parking data can be integrated into a variety of channels—further opening up the ecosystem of developers thinking about creative ways to make parking data more accessible to everyone."

Streetline is the leading source of real-time parking data in the U.S. and Europe – providing real-time data to consumers on open parking spots on the street and in garages. To capture real-time data, Streetline's patented smart parking platform detects the presence of a car through a network of ultra-low power wireless sensors located in individual parking spaces.

Merchants and businesses that are within Streetline's sensor deployments can easily take advantage of the real-time data through ParkerMap™, an embeddable widget that allows merchants, universities, cities, and parking providers to easily highlight nearby parking options via any website; and Parker™, the leading mobile app for consumers, and – soon – in-car navigation systems.

"The goal is to open up access to parking data via a variety of channels," added Vito Salvaggio, Senior Vice President, Product Management of Streetline. "With nearly 40 real-time smart parking deployments in both the U.S. and Europe, we've moved beyond smart parking as a concept to smart parking as a reality. We're excited to see how opening up basic parking data to developers everywhere further accelerates the development ecosystem and the use of parking data as an ingredient."

Developers can access ParkerData via a convenient RESTful API design and standard JSON and XML data formats. Access to ParkerData Basic is free and complete guidelines regarding use and distribution can be found on the ParkerData developer website. For more information about ParkerData, or to inquire about access to real-time parking data, please visit: http://developer.streetline.com

About Streetline, Inc.
Streetline's mission is to make smart cities a reality through the use of sensor-enabled mobile and web applications. Streetline's pioneering technology makes the parking experience for consumers easier, while making cities and university campuses more efficient.

Streetline is a privately-held company headquartered in Foster City, CA with smart parking deployments in Germany, the U.K., and across the United States including California, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, DC.  The company was named one of Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Transportation, as well as IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year. Streetline was named Best Mobile Innovation for 'Smart Cities' for Parker at the 2013 Mobile World Congress.

For more information on Streetline visit: http://www.streetline.com. To follow Streetline on Twitter: @streetlineinc

SOURCE Streetline, Inc.