Businesses & Facilities
Create safer, fairer parking at your premises
Canary monitors and manages your mobility parking, so these spaces stay available for the people who need them.
Why partner with Canary
Your mobility parks are there for a reason.
Canary helps make sure they’re available for the customers who rely on them.
We monitor the mobility parks at your site, review potential breaches and take care of the follow-up. Your team can carry on with their day, and customers get a better chance of finding the park they need.
Canary is completely free for the businesses we partner with
Canary is funded through paid breach notices, so participating businesses aren’t invoiced for the service.
We manage the monitoring, notices, payments and appeals as part of the process.
People are more likely to find a park
Once people know the spaces are being monitored, misuse tends to drop. That leaves more mobility parks available for permit holders when they arrive.
We handle the awkward conversations
Nobody on your team needs to head out into the car park and challenge someone over where they’ve parked. Notices, questions and appeals all come through Canary.
It makes the whole visit easier
For someone who relies on mobility parking, finding an available space can shape the rest of their visit. Keeping those parks available makes a genuine difference.
Some good comes from the breaches too
For every paid breach, Canary donates $50 directly to its charitable partners. That money is already helping organisations and communities around New Zealand.
We go where Canary can do the most good
Canary sites are chosen on a few things: the impact we expect to have, evidence that mobility parks are being misused, and how many mobility parking permit holders live nearby.
That means not every location can be considered. We put our resources where they will make the biggest difference, and a site assessment is how we find out whether yours is one of them.
Once you’re set up
How Canary runs at your site, day to day
Once the signs and cameras are in, there isn’t much for you to do. Here’s what happens from then on.
Set up once
Signs and cameras go in at your mobility parks
Clear signage goes up and ANPR cameras, which read number plates, are installed to cover your mobility parks. This part only happens once, and there’s no cost to your business.
Every day
The cameras keep an eye on those parks
They monitor the vehicles that use your mobility spaces, so there’s nothing for your team to watch or report.
Handled by Canary
Every potential breach is manually reviewed
Someone on our team checks the details before any notice is issued. If it doesn’t stack up, it goes no further.
Handled by Canary
We send the breach notice
Where a breach is confirmed, Canary issues the notice. Your team doesn’t need to do a thing.
Handled by Canary
We look after everything that follows
Payments, questions and appeals all come to Canary, so nothing lands on your front desk.
Case study
What three months of monitoring changed at one site
At Canary’s first monitored site, misuse of the mobility parks fell from around 70% to around 20% in three months, and three times as many permit holders were able to use them.
“In just three months after implementing Canary’s system, the mobility parking abuse rate plummeted from over 70% to just 20% at their first site.”
- Average misuse of the mobility parks
- From 70% to20%
- Within three months. Misuse had peaked at 83%.
- Permit holders using the parks each day
- From 31 to95
- Daily average, counting each permit holder’s first visit of the day.
- Of misuse was a stop of under five minutes
- 63%
- 43% was under three minutes.
- Estimated additional annual revenue for businesses at the site
- $600,000
- Based on 23,000+ additional permit-holder visits and average spend by store type.
The problem
Mobility parks at the site were being misused regularly, making them less available for permit holders.
What we did
Canary installed signage and cameras across the three mobility parks, then took over monitoring, notices and appeals.
What changed
Within three months, misuse dropped sharply and more permit holders were able to use the parks.
Free for businesses
Keep your mobility parks for the customers who need them
Canary costs your business nothing. Tell us about your premises and we will arrange a free site assessment.
Questions from businesses
What businesses ask us
What does Canary cost?
Nothing. Canary is funded through paid breach notices, so the businesses we partner with aren’t invoiced for the service.
What gets installed at our site?
Signs that set out the parking terms, and cameras that cover the mobility parks. They are installed once, and Canary arranges it.
Does our team need to do anything?
No. Canary handles the monitoring, notices, payments, questions and appeals. Nobody on your team needs to approach a driver or take a complaint at the front desk.
How do you make sure a notice is fair?
A person reviews every recording before a notice is sent. Anyone who receives one can appeal, and an appeal from a valid permit holder is waived.
How do you choose which sites to take on?
We look at the impact we expect to have, evidence that the mobility parks are being misused, and how many permit holders live nearby. Not every location can be taken on, and a site assessment is how we find out.
What happens to the money from breach notices?
Part of every paid breach is donated to our charity and community partners, and the rest goes into expanding our coverage of mobility parks. Meet our partners.
How do we get started?
Request a free site assessment and tell us about your premises. We’ll be in touch from there.