— CASE STUDY

City of Montréal On-Street Parking

How the City of Montréal leveraged Spatium’s IoT sensor network to modernize on-street parking management, reduce congestion, and increase enforcement efficiency across the city’s busiest corridors.

📍 Montréal, Québec 🏛️ Municipality 🛣️ On-Street Curbside ✓ Active Deployment
500+
On-Street Spaces Monitored
60%
Fewer Enforcement Patrol Hours
30%
Increase in Citation Revenue
Real-time
Availability Data for Drivers

🎯 The Challenge

The City of Montréal faced growing pressure to modernize its aging on-street parking infrastructure. With hundreds of metered spaces across multiple high-density corridors, enforcement officers were spending the majority of their time on inefficient patrols rather than targeted enforcement.

  • Officers patrolling blind — no visibility of violation status before arriving
  • No real-time data for drivers — high congestion from cruising
  • Manual reporting with no historical trend data for urban planning
  • Proprietary legacy system unable to integrate with city platforms

✅ The Spatium Solution

Spatium deployed MPS sensors on 500+ curbside spaces connected to the city's existing network infrastructure. Officers received a mobile app with live violation alerts — eliminating blind patrols and dramatically increasing citation efficiency.

  • Real-time violation alerts sent directly to enforcement mobile app
  • Live availability data integrated with city navigation platform
  • Open API integration with municipal traffic management system
  • Monthly occupancy trend reports for urban planning department
  • APDS-compliant data format for provincial interoperability
Spatium real-time parking occupancy map

Measurable Impact for the City

Enforcement efficiency improvement +60%
Cruising traffic reduction -40%
Parking citation revenue increase +30%

"Spatium gave our enforcement team superpowers. Instead of patrolling blind, they receive real-time alerts and can focus their efforts where violations are actually happening. The data integration with our city platform was seamless."

— Director of Parking Services, Ville de Montréal

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