Hyundai Glovis and Incheon Airport Corporation Join Hands to Establish Korea's First 'Robot Parking System'

Testbed for Technical Verification to Be Established Within the Year at Short-Term Parking Lot of Incheon Airport

On the 18th, the bus stop at Terminal 1 of Incheon International Airport is deserted due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Photo by Mun Ho-nam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Yu Je-hoon] Hyundai Glovis and Incheon International Airport Corporation have joined forces to introduce Korea's first parking robot.

On the 13th, Hyundai Glovis announced that it signed a "Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Establishment of a Smart Parking Testbed" with Incheon Airport Corporation. The signing ceremony was attended by Kim Jeong-hoon, President of Hyundai Glovis, Koo Bon-hwan, President of Incheon Airport Corporation, and other officials from both companies.

Under this agreement, both parties will cooperate to build and implement a smart parking system at Incheon Airport. The smart parking system is a robot-based parking service and is part of Incheon Airport Corporation's Vision 2030 roadmap to become a future-oriented airport.

Going forward, the two companies plan to promote the smart parking system project in three stages: parking robot technology verification, pilot operation of parking robots, and customer-facing services. First, for technology verification, Hyundai Glovis will establish a testbed in the short-term parking lot at Incheon Airport within this year and conduct intensive verification of the parking robot’s performance and operation methods by applying various scenarios.

Next year, based on the data obtained from the first phase, the parking robots will be pilot-operated, and Incheon Airport Corporation plans to internally review the verification results and finalize the direction and timing for customer service application.

Once this system is introduced, it is expected to drastically reduce the time required to find vacant parking spaces, and even if customers forget their parking location after a long trip, they will be able to quickly locate their vehicles, the two companies anticipate.

A Hyundai Glovis official stated, "We will focus our capabilities to swiftly establish the smart parking system at Incheon Airport, the gateway to Korea," adding, "We will showcase smart technologies befitting the Fourth Industrial Revolution era and enhance our status as a global company."

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