Smart Tower parking
15 Jan 2000
Parking's chock-a-block round here: the new Smart car, designed by Swatch and Mercedes Benz, stacks up thanks to Beckhoff's fieldbus systems. The Smart Tower automatic parking columns, which hold the cars at 80 showrooms around Europe, are fully automated, with the cars placed in (and retrieved from) their positions with a procedure controlled by an industrial PC, via a twin channel CAN bus interface.
