Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy website Smart City territory SEAT tomorrow will present an Ateca with Smart City Connectivity that makes it easy to locate free parking spaces
november 25, 2016 - Seat

Smart City territory SEAT tomorrow will present an Ateca with Smart City Connectivity that makes it easy to locate free parking spaces

 / #seat will roll out its intelligent mobility concept at the Smart City Expo World Congress being held in Barcelona from tomorrow to Thursday 17 November

/ The Ateca Smart #citycar collects information from the surroundings and shares it with other users to find available parking using the #seat Parkfinder app

/ #seat will demonstrate new mobility solutions enabled by Smart City Connectivity that improve the driving experience and urban development targets at the same time /

SEAT President #lucademeo and MIT Senseable City Lab director #carloratti, together in the Dialogue Session “The Future of Urban Mobility” Martorell, 14/11/2016. -

Tomorrow #seat will present a future concept of the #seat Ateca with Smart City Connectivity, called Ateca Smart #citycar, which is able to collect information from its surroundings using tracking sensors and share it with other users via the Parkfinder #app, which has been developed by the company and CARNET – the research and innovation hub set up in Barcelona. Through an agreement reached with the Barcelona Council and Cellnex Telecom, this pioneering project enables the #seat Ateca Smart #citycar to transmit information on available parking spaces to the city of Barcelona’s iCity platform. At the same time, this server distributes the information to the Parkfinder #app and displays their location to urban drivers on a map. There are three possible driver profile configurations – close to home, close to work, and a personalised third option. For each of these profiles, the user can organise preferences according to distance, price and the likelihood of finding parking more quickly. In addition, it includes functions such as “Find my car”, which displays where the car is parked, and “Last Mile Routing”, which maps out the distance on foot to the final destination. Visitors to the Smart City Expo World Congress, which is being held in Barcelona from tomorrow to Thursday 17 November, can view this concept of the Ateca, which points towards its future potential. According to Fabian Simmer, SEAT’s Digital Officer, “nearly 30% of traffic in major European cities involves drivers looking for a place to park. The Ateca Smart #citycar and the Parkfinder #app display the most convenient route to follow to reduce the time spent looking for a parking space, with the subsequent reduction of emissions, noise and traffic congestion in cities”. At a stand located in pavilion 2C of the Barcelona Fair’s Gran Vía facilities, which will heavily feature SEAT’s concept of Easy mobility by way of solutions created to make life easier for TECHNOLOGY TO ENJOY users in an urban environment, the company will reveal its latest technological innovations on display in the Smart City territory. In addition to unveiling the Ateca at the Smart City Congress, which #seat is sponsoring as a Global Partner, #seat will present the Digital Sharing #app, which has been developed for sharing economy environments, or peer-to-peer sharing. The #app works as a digital key that enables carsharing in private and #corporate environments. Intelligent mobility – topic of the Dialogue Session between #lucademeo and #carloratti Tomorrow, on the first day of the congress, #seat will feature in one of the scheduled Dialogue Sessions in an encounter between company President #lucademeo and Italian architect, engineer and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Senseable City Lab, #carloratti. Under the heading “The future of urban mobility”, both will discuss several challenges linked to urban mobility of the future, taking into account the influence of the sharing economy culture, which is gaining widespread popularity among consumers. SEAT’s participation at this benchmark international smart city #event consolidates its commitment to developing new mobility solutions where the connected car enhances user experience, making it easier and more flexible. In an environment of disruptive changes, such as the ones the sector is going to undergo in the next decade, #seat is eager to become a leading brand in the field of connectivity and digitisation. Therefore, it is committed to moving towards new business to be able to deal with the challenges posed by urban infrastructures, traffic systems and vehicles in cities.