{"id":4388,"date":"2024-11-08T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nive.fi\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:21:50","slug":"case-esittely-kalajoen-kaupunki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nive.fi\/en\/case-esittely-kalajoen-kaupunki\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking Control For The City of Kalajoki - CASE Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kalajoki City Parking Control<\/b><\/p>

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The City of Kalajoki<\/b>
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Kalajoki City is a diverse tourism and business center located on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia in Northern Ostrobothnia, known especially for its magnificent sand dunes and maritime atmosphere. Kalajoki offers excellent opportunities for holidays and living, especially in the summer, as well as for entrepreneurship. The city's sandy beaches and extensive tourism services attract tens of thousands of visitors annually to enjoy activities such as golf, water parks, adventure parks, and maritime hobbies.<\/p>

Kalajoki also invests heavily in the development of business life and the attraction of new companies. The area has a functioning business cluster, the core of which includes, among other things, tourism, construction, and metal industry operators. Good transport connections, developing business services, and the city's vibrant and development-oriented attitude create excellent conditions for business growth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The city of Kalajoki has faced an ongoing issue for years, where the annual beach and event season attracts so many vehicles to the sand dunes that there are no longer enough parking spaces in the core area of the resort for all the vacationers. As a result, drivers have ended up parking along busy roads, on the dunes, and in the surrounding terrain. Cars parked along the roads have blocked traffic lanes, slowing down traffic, and in the worst-case scenario, have prevented emergency vehicles from reaching accident sites.<\/p>

The sand dune area is known for its unique natural environment, which is why off-road parking, especially during the event season, has become a major issue. Cars parked in the forest have, in the worst cases, leaked oil into the terrain, blocked private forest roads, and spoiled the landscape for tourists hiking in the woods. The sand dunes and city's idyllic landscape are the city's biggest attraction for both Finnish and international tourists, which is why the city aims to protect its unique nature through parking control.<\/p>

To this, Nive was able to offer a solution with the Nive Notis mobile application, which allows the city's parking inspectors to quickly and easily issue parking fines directly through the city's M-Files system.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Kalajoki parking control project was unique for Nive not only because the parking control use case had not even been considered as one of Notis' functionalities, but also because the project implementation schedule was extremely tight. Nive had only two and a half weeks to build a functional solution for Kalajoki's parking control needs before the upcoming midsummer festival. In addition to the Notis customization, Nive also had to build a new M-Files vault in the city's M-Files system. The city's M-Files system was configured to create a PDF document based on the observations made with Notis, from which a parking violation ticket was printed.\u00a0<\/p>

-\u00a0\u2013 We started developing the parking control application together with Nive, as Nive's mobile application allows for simple data entry into the M-Files system. The city has built the billing process on top of the M-Files system, and Nive's mobile application made it possible to create an easy-to-use solution for parking inspectors to record parking violations and issue tickets, says Juha Matilainen, Kalajoki's IT Director.\u00a0<\/em>says Juha Matilainen\u00a0, the IT Director of Kalajoki.<\/strong><\/p>

The development of Notis gained momentum quickly as soon as the city gave the project the green light. After the kickoff meeting held at the beginning of June, there were only 17 days until the midsummer launch-date. The solution had to include the following steps:<\/p>