What do you think about being “proactive”? How much does it save your time and how much it does it help you plan your things out? Digitally, being proactive would mean ordering groceries in advance using e-commerce websites and scheduling it for your convenient time. Being proactive would also mean ordering your food online while you are reaching your home and tracking the delivery guy on the mobile app. With all such advancements, do you see how much well planned have you become? Being proactive is a decision that you make in daily life. But to make such decisions, there are digital apps and ..read more

You love Monday. But you get Monday Blues thinking about how to reach to work and especially about how to park on-time? Well, we get you! This is a grey area where the office administrators go helpless as the parking policy and management is done by the building operators. And, this definitely is a decision making concern while choosing an office space. Employees’ productivity depends on how much time they can save and where can they invest the saved time. Time is real money. Let’s imagine a typical workday morning. You have an important meeting at 10 am in the office. You start from your home ..read more

Imagine going to work and stepping inside your office within 5 minutes of reaching? However, the real story doesn’t reflect the same. If you self drive, you spend at least 30 minutes on the road! When there is no traffic, that marks your lucky day, but if you’re caught in the traffic your entire day goes about fussing over the same. Next, even when you manage to reach your office on-time, you add more time while parking your car because: there are early office goers who manage to reach before you and occupy your favorite spot you keep on taking rounds of your parking lot to find a parking spa ..read more

Parking, a major concern of the increasing commute has a good gap in demand & supply. The ratio between the number of vehicles and parking space is increasing day by day. Seeing the present challenges, smart parking management has come into the picture. The smart parking management takes into account many elements such as the parking space allotment, availability of parking space, informed data, informed drivers, manual or digital monitoring, revenue collection, parking fees, government policies, forecasting and predicting the mobility information and much more. If we look into these suppo ..read more

What do you call as a smart living? Or, in other words, which city would you dream to live in? Ideally, a city with less traffic? Less pollution? Less congestion? A city that will give you work-life balance by making sure your commute time is least. We are definitely progressing towards a smart city! And every smart city does promise you for a better living. However, have you ever pondered over the infrastructure and system that is needed to build a smart city? There are multiple elements, multiple units working together in bringing and establishing any smart city. One of the important systems ..read more

With the increasing population and increase in vehicles on the road, parking stands as a major concern for the commuters. While there is road expansion, metro construction, cab aggregators to solve the traffic issue but the underneath problem of unorganized parking is still a major issue. And this has given rise to mobility as a service, that captures and forecasts the mobility data using AI and IoT. Smart parking apps have integrated this new technology and streamlining the chaotic parking management. In India, there are approximate 640K paid parking spaces, split between the functions reside ..read more

Most of you must be aware of Kumbh Mela ( a mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred or holy river). Because of its massive scale and participation, the event is called as the largest event in India. In 2019, the Kumbhmela took place in Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) for 48 days. The event fetched more than 150 million pilgrims and the preparations included Rs 42,000 million temporary city over 2,500 hectares with 122,000 temporary toilets and range of accommodation from simple dormitory tents to 5 Star tents, 800 special trains b ..read more

Setting up the context: Looking back When we started ParkingRhino in 2015, we were optimistic about the problem that we were going to solve “discovering and booking parking areas to save time”, started with bootstrapped funds, three team members and a problem to solve on our plate. Fast forward a year in 2016, our mobile app was launched and we expanded in multiple cities including Hyderabad, Delhi, Pune. Our hard work started getting attention across NASCCOM, Google Launchpad, SURGE Conference, ELEVATE 100. Soon we discovered a sister problem in the B2B space whe ..read more

With a remarkable economic progress, virtually every country in the Southeast region has opened up its economy for free markets. While many of the world’s biggest economic arena are recording a sluggish economic growth in recent years, Southeast Asia has registered itself as the key driver of economic changes. After the global financial crisis of 2008, Southeast Asia’s economic growth rates have improved and has managed to record growth rates of nearly 5% per year. It means the SE region is only trailing behind China and India which are the world’s larger emerging markets. The economic growth ..read more

Today we have closed our seed funding round of Rs. 3.85 Cr leading by NVCL (North East Venture Capital) and others. ParkingRhino will use this funding to upgrade its IoT based technology platform, team building, and market acquisition. ParkingRhino provides end to end IOT based data driven parking platform for drivers, parking owners, smart cities, enterprise companies and other mobility eco-system players. Our application presently enjoys the largest database of 4 Million verified parking spaces across 15 cities in India and testing its global IoT platform in few cities in South East Asia and ..read more