Lemvig is a small coastal town in western Jutland with a big seasonal challenge. During the summer months, the town attracts a large number of tourists alongside its regular residents and visitors — and for years, the city centre has struggled to accommodate that demand. Parking pressure has been building, and neither the municipality nor drivers had a clear picture of how the situation was evolving or where the real problems lay.
Sensade deployed a city-wide smart parking solution across Lemvig, giving the municipality the data it needed to plan smarter and giving drivers the guidance they needed to park faster.
The Challenge
Like many Danish towns, Lemvig had been experiencing growing pressure on its parking infrastructure. Residents, visitors, and tourists all compete for the same spaces, and the demand fluctuates significantly across the year. Summer brings a sharp increase in traffic that the city’s existing provision was not equipped to manage well.
Without reliable data on how spaces were being used — which areas were consistently full, which were underutilised, how patterns shifted between weekdays, weekends, and seasons — the municipality had no solid foundation for planning improvements. And without guidance, drivers circulated through the city searching for spaces, adding congestion and emissions to an already pressured system.
It is estimated that search traffic in Lemvig costs the community more than 450 tonnes of CO₂, over 120,000 driving hours, and more than 3 million kilometres of unnecessary travel every year.
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The Solution
Sensade installed 754 wireless parking sensors across all parking spaces in Lemvig city centre, covering 19 parking areas connected through a new IoT network supported by 2 gateways. The system generates 55,000 data points every day, providing the municipality with a continuous, detailed picture of parking demand across the entire city.
IoT Infrastructure
The installation gave Lemvig more than a parking system. The new IoT network provides the connectivity infrastructure needed to support a range of future Smart City applications — positioning the municipality to collect data, anticipate problems, and respond proactively across multiple areas of city management, not just parking.
Parking Analytics
Lemvig Municipality’s Technical and Environmental department now has access to Sensade’s data analytics platform, providing a complete overview of how parking spaces are being used across the city. The ongoing analysis helps identify where supply and demand are mismatched, where time restrictions could be adjusted, and where new provision might be needed — giving planners the evidence to act with confidence rather than assumption.
Driver Guidance
The sensor data also feeds a real-time guidance system, directing drivers to available spaces across Lemvig’s 19 parking areas. Drivers spend less time searching, search traffic decreases, and the city becomes easier to navigate for everyone — residents, visitors, and tourists.
The Results
- Complete real-time overview of parking across the city centre
- Data-driven planning for urban development
- Driver guidance to available spaces across 19 areas
- Reduced search traffic and CO₂ emissions
- IoT infrastructure foundation for future Smart City projects
