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April 11, 2011 Simac again awarded by Motorola

We are proud to announce that for the third consecutive year Simac has been awarded as ISV partner and the partnership has now been upgraded to Premier status. On behalf of our team we thank Motorola for their dedication to our partnership.

April 5, 2011 City of Amsterdam on 200 Motorola MC 9500's

Cition, the parking department of the City of Amsterdam, have renewed their contract for 3 years and replaced 200 Sphynxx hand computers to the latest technology. The migration was finished successfully with no impact on production. Part of the migration was the update to the latest Sphynxx software including modified scanning technology to increase efficiency.

March 4, 2011 Simac introducing enforcement application on Motorola Smartphone.

Sphynxx, being the award winning and industry leading enforcement application in Europe, is now available as a smartphone enforcement application.

Due to increased demand for small and lightweight devices for police, parking- and town management applications we offer our reliable Sphynxx enforcement solution in the smallest possible package,  the Motorola ES 400 smartphone.

With a weight of less than 200 grams, IP 42 sealing requirements, Bluetooth printer connection, 3,2 MPixel color camera and GPS it meets on-street demands without sacrificing ruggedness and ease of use.

Unlike other smartphone based solutions (like the I-Phone™ ) the battery life of the Motorola ES 400 is sufficient for a full shift (i.e. 8 hours) work.

January 31, 2011 Danderyd - Sweden on Sphynxx

The municipality of Danderyd is a modern society with almost 30.000 inhabitants and is situated ten kilometers north of Stockholm. To accommodate the enforcement of Easypark mobile phone parking Danderyd decided to choose for EasyPark and Sphynxx utilizing ANPR for easy data entry.

November 19, 2010
EasyPark phone parking and Simac enforcement enter exclusive cooperation – Launches Parking Excellence Concept

On November 19th 2010, Simac Business Applications BV, a subsidiary of Simac Techniek NV, and EasyPark Group, have signed an agreement for exclusive cooperation in Scandinavia, Germany and the United Kingdom. The market leading EasyPark phone parking service combined with Simac’s industry leading enforcement solution makes it possible to introduce Parking Excellence; a revolutionary digital parking concept that provides a superior customer experience and lowers operator costs while meeting the innovation challenges in the parking industry for the years to come.

Director of SBA Andre Wielaard says: “EasyPark have established a significant market leadership in all their 5 countries of presence. Because of EasyPark’s market knowledge and leadership they are the ideal partner to contribute to our international expansion aside from the fact that phone parking is highly synergetic with our enforcement solution.”

The CEO of EasyPark Group, Johan Birgersson agrees: “Parking Excellence is a complete package that really leverages the strength of both Simac and EasyPark. We can now provide extraordinary value for cities and parking operators, or more specifically, we are looking to at least double the efficiency and significantly cut operating costs at the same time for the parking operation.”

EasyPark is Europe’s leading mobile parking service provider and the innovator behind the “Virtual Pay and Display machine”. EasyPark has full national coverage in all the Nordic countries and is also present in Germany with its own operation but is present in more markets through license agreements.

June 24, 2010
Dutch market share rapidly growing through TMC partnership

October 2009 we announced our partnership with TMC, the leading distributor of pay-and-display machines in the Dutch market. The product portfolio of TMC further consists of enforcement solutions and mobile phone parking operations under the brand name of Yellow Brick.

Before signing the distribution agreement for the Sphynxx suite of enforcement products for the Dutch market, TMC have been the sole Dutch distributor of Schweers Politess® and Ticketman® handheld computers.

Due to the increasing "digitalization" of parking in The Netherlands TMC were looking for a proven solution that would suit today's and future demands of their customers.

Today we are proud to announce that our partnership has already proven to be a very successful one. The following 10 cities have been implemented in the last 6 months: Alkmaar, Bussum, Goes, Zeist, Oud-Beijerland, Maastricht, Venlo, Wageningen, Culemborg and Venray; a major achievement, again proving TMC's and Simac's dedication to this partnership and the quality of the Sphynxx solution.

June 11, 2010
Dutch police force operational on Sphynxx

In 2009 discussions about the Sphynxx implementation with the Dutch police force of Gelderland Zuid started. What looked to be a straight forward implementation of our software ended up a as a very special cooperation between the Dutch police, Simac and Motorola. January 2010 we finished the implementation and in May the police wrote an article about the project in their monthly magazine. Needles to say that we are very proud of their positive comments about this special partnership.  For the full English translation of the article click here.

April 12, 2010
Simac Business Applications move to new office

Last Friday and Saturday we have been working hard to move from our Woerden office to the Simac building in Ede. Located near the A-12 highway in the most beautiful part of the Netherlands, and close to our other Simac colleagues, we will continue to work on our International expansion. Please find our new contact details here. We hope to welcome you soon.

April 2, 2010
Greek Sphynxx distributor launches new website

Our Greek distributor have launched their new website. Please visit Urban Systems here

October 6, 2009
TMC appointed Dutch Sphynxx distributor

The Amsterdam based company Taxameter Centrale (TMC) have been appointed Sphynxx distributor for the Netherlands region. TMC are the leading supplier of parking equipment on the Dutch market. Their portfolio ranges from Pay And Display machines and mobile phone parking to enforcement solutions. TMC was the former distributor of the Schweers Politess equipment for the Netherlands.

Robert-Jan Staartjes, CEO of TMC stated: "Sphynxx brings us the technology to face the challenges in today's world of "digital parking".

September 3,2009
Launch new Motorola MC 95 hand computer

On September 15th the new Motorola MC 95 hand computer will be launched. Simac was involved in the development and Beta-testing of this new hand computer and during this world-wide launch event the MC 95 will be demonstrated with the Sphynxx enforcement software to show the full capabilities of this new model which, in our perspective, will soon become the worldwide standard for enforcement applications.

The Dutch police department of Gelderland-Zuid participated in the Early Adopter Program and will be the launching customer using Sphynxx software on the MC 95 in the Netherlands.

For all information please click here -

May, 2009
Sphynxx achieves Motorola Enterprise Mobility Validation

What Does Enterprise Mobility Validation Mean?

Here at Simac Business Applications we are committed to helping our customers reap the competitive benefits of enterprise mobility. Motorola Enterprise Mobility Validation means our solution successfully works with products from Motorola, the global leader in enterprise mobility. To achieve Enterprise Mobility Validated status, our solution underwent a thorough testing program under common customer usage scenarios at a Motorola Solution Center.

Enterprise Mobility Validation is an added assurance that when you invest in our enterprise mobility solution it is ready to integrate and perform seamlessly with Motorola Enterprise Mobility products. This leads to faster solution deployment with higher end user satisfaction.

March 15, 2009
Introducing Mobile ANPR Solution for Sphynxx

Due to the increasing use of license plate data for electronic parking solutions we developed a Mobile ANPR solution that makes it possible for enforcement organizations to scan license plates of parked vehicles while driving through a street at approx. 40 Km/hr. For efficient integration of this functionality an extension on our Sphynxx handheld- and back office software is developed that fully supports al the functions of mobile ANPR.

Click here for more information.

September 21, 2008
Sphynxx available for Motorola MC 75

The Sphynxx application is now available for the Motorola lightweight MC 75 Enterprise Digital Assistant. Utilizing all available features of this terminal, like the color camera en the built-in GPS unit, loads of new functionality had been added to the Sphynxx software. Please contact us for a demonstration.

August 20, 2008
Motorola ISV partner

Today Simac is awarded Motorola ISV partner. This award emphasizes the succesfull long term cooperation between Motorola and Simac.

April 16, 2008
International distributors for Sphynxx

Although Sphynxx already is the most successful parking enforcement suite in Europe we are still looking for distributors for the Sphynxx software in several European countries, North America and Canada.

If your company has a broad experience in selling and implementing software solutions for the local en central government and you are familiar with today's challenges in the field of parking payment solutions and parking enforcement we would like to get in contact with you.

If you think your company can meet our requirements please fill out the form on the contact page and will will get in touch within 24 hours. 

December 24, 2007
City of The Hague on Sphynxx

Just before Christmas the training of all enforcement officers and backoffice personal, and the roll-out of 80 new hand terminals were completed. Now all but one of the 6 major cities in The Netherlands, together with 30 smaller cities, are using Sphynxx software and equipment.

Within a month after completing the implementation the production (number of tickets issued) in The Hague has doubled, again a proof of the user friendliness and ease of use of the Sphynxx software.