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Other NFC vendors mostly in Europe use contactless payment over mobile phones to pay for on-and off-street parking in specially demarcated areas.

Parking wardens may enforce the parkings by license plate, transponder tags or barcode stickers.

First conceptualized in the 1990s, the technology has seen commercial use in this century in both Scandinavia and Estonia.

End users benefit from the convenience of being able to pay for parking from the comfort of their car with their mobile phone, and parking operators are not obliged to invest in either existing or new street-based parking infrastructures.

Parking wardens maintain order in these systems by license plate, transponder tags or barcode stickers or they read a digital display in the same way as they read a pay and display receipt.