Obocon, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures automated parking enforcement systems primarily for lease to municipalities, universities and institutions, including a ticket writing system and other enforcement systems.
The company has installed various parking enforcement systems for various clients, towns and universities. To augment the enforcement element of the system, the company manufactures and markets the original Denver Boot and other enforcement tools. By utilizing an integrated app...
Obocon, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures automated parking enforcement systems primarily for lease to municipalities, universities and institutions, including a ticket writing system and other enforcement systems.
The company has installed various parking enforcement systems for various clients, towns and universities. To augment the enforcement element of the system, the company manufactures and markets the original Denver Boot and other enforcement tools. By utilizing an integrated approach, the company offers a parking citation processing system, including tracking, enforcement, collection and automatic identification of delinquent violators.
Principal Products or Services and Markets and Distribution Methods
The company's parking enforcement system is an automated system, which generates parking citations. The system consists of a hand-held, light-weight, portable data entry terminal, a light-weight printer to generate the parking citation and a data collection computer system to store parking citation data at the end of each day. The data is stored on in-house servers at the company in a cloud-computing environment. The system allows users to print photos on the tickets, as well as store the photos with the ticket records. Various clients would prefer to remain on the batch system.
The company's system also includes a back office processing and filing system. The company provides computers, printers and software to enable the user to obtain State Department of Motor Vehicle lookups, maintain citation information storage and recall, generate delinquent notices and have immediate access to files of all tickets previously written. In addition, the company's system maintains a list of vehicles with multiple outstanding citations, stolen vehicles, or vehicles otherwise wanted by local law enforcement officials. The system also generates reports of citations by number and officer, revenues collected, names of scofflaws, officer productivity and other reports as deemed necessary or valuable to the agency.
The company offers Internet payment processing of tickets, permit registrations, and clearing of funds for its clients and industry affiliates. The program accepts credit cards and checks at its Remit-online.com Website 24 hours a day. As the items are accepted, email notification goes to the client for notification and posting of payment. Settlement of funds is weekly or monthly per contract arrangement. Under the permit fulfillment program, patrons could purchase permits at on-line Web addresses for specific agencies. Payment processing is done for checks and credit cards and the permits are mailed directly for the agencies.
The company's contracts for its parking enforcement systems provide that it would provide the ticket writers, a back office processing system, custom software and training and support in consideration of a fee per citation issued, a monthly fee for computer equipment rental and/or a set monthly fee. Occasionally, the company would provide its system through an outright sale rather than through its typical lease arrangement. The company warrants its equipment, provides updating and improvements to its system hardware and software and provides customary indemnification. The company also contracts its systems under a privatization program whereby the company provides a facilities management program for the client. The operation includes personnel to operate the system, issue tickets, and take care of enforcement tasks, along with the collection of ticket revenues, backlog ticket collections and other related duties. These programs are offered under a revenue guarantee or revenue split contract.
The company provides full service programs to private parking industry clients. The programs include permit fulfillment, payment processing, generating notice letters and related full service programs. The programs provided to private lot operators improve control of honor box payments, enforcement and lot management. The company has systems installed in municipalities and universities representing approximately 9,800,000 tickets issued per year.
The Denver Boot
The Denver Boot is a metal clamp, which is fastened around a wheel, which prevents a vehicle from being moved. The Denver Boot is removed by unlocking a padlock. The company acquired all rights to the product in a transaction with Grace Berg. The Denver Boot is used by various law enforcement agencies on vehicles with multiple offenses. The Denver Boot could be integrated into the company's parking control and enforcement system or might be sold separately. The company also introduced a Super Boot to fit various major pickup trucks and SUV models.
Remit-online.com
Remit-online.com is an Internet based payment processing system, which allows for credit card and check payments to be made for parking citations and other payment processing activities. Remit-online.com is offered to various clients of the company, as well as to other parking industry businesses. The company processes credit card and check payments through services provided by 3rd parties. The company receives a processing fee for each transaction. As each transaction is processed, notification is sent to the paid agency by email so that posting of the account could be made primarily as parking citations are date critical regarding amount due and potential late fees. Settlement of collected funds between the company and the agency is made based on contractual agreement either weekly or monthly.
Expo1000.com
Expo1000.com is an Internet based industry guide that is structured as a virtual trade show with links to the actual exhibitors Web sites. The business is developed for specific industries with focus on parking. Expo1000.com contains an internal search engine, which searches key words industry specific. Client company listings are available by company name and product, as well as search engine within the industry. The listings are subscription based and billed annually. To make the site viable, the primary focus in addition to selling the listings is to improve the visits and exposure to sites. The Expo1000.com site highlights ‘what's new’ for the industry (press releases, new product announcements, new service announcements). The site contains a message board and email services to its subscribers and its visitors. Expo1000.com is also a parking advocacy forum and sponsors one day solution seminars in strategic locations for exhibition and education purposes. Expo1000.com vendors demonstrate their product to invitees from strategic municipal, university and commercial parking agencies.
Permitsales.com
Permitsales.com is a program for online permit registration. Through this program registration and renewals for decal permits could be done. The program also is used to register, create, and print special event permits and periodic transit permits. The company provides permit fulfillment services.
IDBadgemaker.com
This is a PC based badge and security ID program that is used in conjunction with digital photos to allow users to make two-sided ID badges (with critical information and bar codes). The program is sold as a stand-alone program and has been marketed directly to its clients, as well as through various on-line software product/download sites, such as Download.com. The download version could be used for demonstration with the word DEMO stamped across any badge produced.
VirtualPermit.com
This program is a paperless (and hard copy) permit system being used by majority of the company's clients. It includes monitoring lots and garages, inventory of spaces, and could validate active or lapsed permits.
Park-by-phone.com
This program is a technology based parking reservation and payment system that benefits customers by allowing them to pay (by credit card) and park by making one telephone call to the Park-by-phone data center. Through strategic alliances with parking operators, cities, and venues, this system allows customers to have paid parking in an instant, without the need of cash or coins.
Time IMS
The company has also developed an Internet based time keeping program geared to agencies that need to keep employee tracking and time keeping records. The Internet software system offers outservice agencies the ability to track and document skilled and unskilled care visits. The program could also be used for general timekeeping purposes (i.e. hourly workers, part time staffing, and other personnel tracking).
Customers
Privatization Contracts
In a contract for privatization, the company provides a facilities management operation for the city of Logan, UT, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMTA) and Norwalk Transit Santa Fe Springs (NTSFS). For the City of Logan, the company provides personnel, vehicles, an office, ticket issuance and ticket payment processing. For LAMTA and NTSFS, the company provides lot services, including signage and striping, ticket issuance, permit fulfillment, special event parking, and other related services.
Urban Transit Solutions (UTS), Puerto Rico
UTS has contracts in Mayaguez, Carolina, San German, Manati, Caguas, Isabela, Aquas Buenas, Ponce and San Juan, Puerto Rico. UTS has installed meters and signs and provides personnel for ticket issuance and enforcement for these cities. Other services include meter collections, ticket collections, code enforcement and lot enforcement. The company wholly owns UTS.
Patents and Licenses
The company applied for a patent for its palmtype and Palm specific software in 2002. The company was awarded patent No. 6,970,109 in 2005. The company has also filed for and was granted Trademarks for PARK-BY-PHONE. In 2005, the company received trademark No. 2,979,359 for PARK-BY-PHONE.COM and trademark No. 2,979,358 for PARK-BY-PHONE.
History
Obocon, Inc. was founded in 1984.
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