Hardware Layer

The meter is the signal.

A meter does two jobs: it takes payment, and it tells the driver the space is legal — the job asset-light systems can’t do. SpaceMaster takes it further with a real-time display at the space: live occupancy, time remaining, rules in effect.

Modernistic Lane — SpaceMaster

SpaceMaster: more than a meter. A curbside convenience hub.

Sculptural street furniture that pays for itself as a meter — and earns its keep again as sensor, LPR, wayfinding sign, real-time guidance display at the space, merchant-validation terminal and live occupancy publisher. Where a traditional meter passively signals legality, SpaceMaster actively communicates: live status, time remaining, rules in effect, dynamic messaging — in the driver’s two-second commit window, right where they need it.

  • Real-time guidance display at the space — live status, time remaining, rules, dynamic messages
  • Single, Dual, Quad and Multi-Space configurations
  • Integrated curb sensing and LPR (optional)
  • Merchant validation and contactless payment
  • Live occupancy publishing to Google and city wayfinding
  • Flex-space management: pickup-dropoff, loading, rideshare, ADA
  • Grid-independent solar with 7-day storage
SpaceMaster back view — Modernistic Lane convenience hub installed at the curb
Classic Lane — LNG

LNG: the drop-in modernization path for every housing.

The Liberty Next-Generation single- and dual-space meter slides onto your existing housing. Coin, card, contactless and mobile app payments, cellular connectivity, firmware-upgradeable, sensor-ready.

  • Single-space and dual-space configurations
  • Coin + card + contactless + Live QR Codes
  • Cellular or LoRa backhaul
  • Field-upgradeable firmware
  • Five-year battery life on a single solar panel
  • Drop-in compatible with your housings
Liberty Next Gen (LNG) smart meter showing live QR pay-by-phone code and contactless card reader
LNG configurations

One platform. Four configurations. Every housing.

Single Space, Dual Space, Multi Space (up to 15 stalls from one unit), and Coin Only — every option shares the same maintenance kit, the same housings and the same field-upgradeable firmware.

LNG configurations: single space, dual space, multi space, coin only
Why it matters

Point-of-use hardware does two jobs — and only one of them is payment.

A meter at the curb is also a signal. It tells the driver, at a distance and in motion, that the space is a legal parking space — before the wallet comes out, before the app loads, before the kiosk hike. Most American cities post one regulatory sign per zone — sparsely, often at block ends — just enough to pass legal muster, not at the spaces themselves; by the time a driver sights an open space mid-block, that sign is in their rear-view mirror or too far in front. The meter at the space is often the only piece of the system that addresses a driver in motion at the moment of decision. Industry slogans (“asset-light,” “freeing the curb,” “frictionless”) describe benefits to operators and capital budgets. The motorist’s two-second commit window is whose convenience the curb actually has to serve.

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The meter is the sign

Presence of a curbside device tells the driver, at a distance, that this is a legal parking space — the regulatory signal in 1–2 seconds of eye-time.

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Rules where decisions happen

Prices, time limits and restrictions visible at the space — not two menus deep on a phone or a half block away at a kiosk.

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Every payment channel

Coin, card, contactless, Live QR, mobile app. Never a reason a visitor can’t comply — and never a 75-foot walk to find out how.

Drop-in upgrade path

Reuse existing housings. No new concrete. No new permits. No political fight.

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