Robots are engaged in car parking at Dusseldorf Airport

Visitors to the airport in Düsseldorf can now quickly park the car before the flight. You do not even need to look for a free place: just leave the car in one of the 6 “buffer zones”, get a ticket with a QR code - and you can go on a flight.

The car will be taken to the right place by one of the three Ray robots , which works completely autonomously (only one airport employee is needed to explain to drivers how to use the technology).

The dimensions of the machine are scanned in the buffer zone, then Ray takes it to the most optimal place using the built-in digital map. When the driver returns, the robot delivers the car back to the same buffer zone.
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Ray's parking robots gently handle the car, they move at a speed of 10 km / h and are also guided by special reflectors on walls and columns.



A day of such parking costs 29 euros, an hour - 4 euros. This is about the same as in other parts of the airport where people work.

The production of these devices is engaged in a small company Serva Transport Systems from Munich. Company executives say that the automatic system allows you to place 40% more cars in the parking lot, because they are placed close and more thoughtfully: small cars with small ones and large ones with large ones. You can calculate how much the project will pay off, based on the increased parking density and the lack of staff salaries, given the cost of the simplest system of two transfer stations and two robots of 900 thousand euros.



Perhaps this way you can put the cars in several floors, as is done with containers in warehouses.