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AI parking assistance for UK drivers · Scan smart. Park smarter.

Scan Parking Signs with AI. Understand Restrictions. Park Smarter.

  • AI reads the sign: zone, provider, location code and restriction
  • You check it against the physical sign before you park or pay
  • Hand-over to the provider's official page. You pay them, not us
  • Nearby parking search, session timer and find-my-car

Find Parking. Scan Signs. Park Smarter.

Discover nearby parking, use AI to help understand parking signs, and manage your parking time with helpful reminders.

Paying for parking

Across multiple parking providers, without multiple parking apps.

Council bays, private operators, retail car parks and airport decks each tend to arrive with their own app, their own account and their own card details. Park Shield sits in front of them.

UK parking figures

48,000
private parking tickets issued a day, June–September 2025
Choice
of parking apps in car parks on the National Parking Platform

Sources: private parking tickets — RAC analysis of DVLA KADOE records, June–September 2025 average. App choice: the National Parking Platform keeps its own current list of supported apps.

Your road traffic guide & parking shield.

Park Shield is on Your session timer and parked location, in view

Parking across the four nations

Park Shield route and park screen with route, park and pay and activate actions

England · London

On arrival — the car park you actually stopped at

Tap through to the operator that runs this car park

Park Shield active-session screen: a running timer, the parking location, and session start and end times

Wales · Cardiff

Automation running in the background

Time elapsed tracked against the bay

Park Shield operator-verified screen showing the verified operator, verification time and check type

Scotland · Glasgow

Parking location checked before you pay

The operator for this bay identified

Northern Ireland, Belfast: parking enforced under its own regime, handled in the same Park Shield app

Northern Ireland · Belfast

Enforced under a separate regime from Great Britain

Pay without the machine queue — no new app to install

Parking made easy across the United Kingdom.

  • CouncilOn-street bays
  • PrivateMulti-storey decks
  • RetailSupermarket parking
  • TransportAirport and station decks

Restriction categories on this page are shown to illustrate the journey. In the app, Sign Scan reads the sign at the bay you're parked in.

Park Shield does not take your parking payment. It identifies the operator for the bay you are in and hands you to that operator's own payment page to pay them directly.

Journey complete. Every stop checked.

Happy thumbs-up character

From the moment each trip starts until it is complete, Park Shield helps you check the rules at every stop and reminds you before your time runs out.

Parking news and guides

What UK drivers need to know right now

Plain-English updates and guides, checked against official sources. General information, not legal advice.

Latest parking news

Official updates that affect UK drivers, checked against government and Parliament sources.

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