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 1955
This picture shows Carl-Axel Andersson,who founded CALE 1955. The parking meter next to Carl-Axel Andersson is the first Cale product. |
ORUB
1955
First Cale parking meter. Accepted 25 cents and allowed up to one hour parking time. |
 PM 67
1967 Cale 67 was introduced the same year as Sweden changed to right hand driving. It supported up to 12 hours parking time. |
 B10
1970 The first Cale pay & display machine |
 EL 2002
1974 The first electro-mechanical Cale pay & display machine. |
 PM 77
1977 Cale Access introduces an advanced mechanical parking meter with replaceable mechanism. PM 77 is still in use in many countries.
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 EPM 4004
1978 Cale Access introduces the single-chip processor in electronic parking meters. |
 MP 5005
1978
Cale Access releases the MP5005, the first pay & display machine controlled by a micro-processor. The MP 5005 enabled the use of multiple tariffs. It had an intelligent coin verifier and a modular design for easy maintenance. |
 MP 6006
1978 The first Cale space number (Memo) pay & display machine. |
 EPM 7007
1982
Cale Access introduces the micro-processor technique in electronic parking meters.
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 MP 10000
1982 This product was connected to an office computer and had a display, a thermal printer and (optionally) a key reader that could identify each driver. The MP 10000 was, for instance, used by sugar refineries to weight the loads of sugar-beets delivered by trucks.
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 MP 8008
1984 Cale Access develops an advanced pay & display machine that accepts coins and credit cards. A PC software that handles machine control and statistics is also released.
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 MP 8008 with bank note reader
1984 Cale Access introduces bank note facilities in MP 8008.
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 MP 104 XL
2004 Third generation of Cale bank note reader terminals are released. Improved security and bank note acceptance functions. |
TMA 89
1989
The first back-office programme supplied by Cale Access was a DOS based application. The parking terminals communicated with a central PC either via modem or by exchanging data via a hand held terminal. Direct cable connection was another alternative. |
 MP 102
1992 Cale Access releases the modern and multi functional MP 102 that becomes a huge success. With MP 102 Cale Access introduces support for value cards (smart cards). |
TMA for WIN
1992
A new Windows based back-office programme was introduced. The functions equalled those of the TMA 89 back-office programme (see above), but had a nicer user inteface and graphic presentation of data. |
 MP 103 MEMO
1993 The popular space number (Memo) functions are added to the MP 102 which gives birth to MP 103.
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 MP 104
1996 Cale Access releases the power of MP 104 with state of the art architecture, design and payment methods. The back office software Argus released the same year, supports all the MP 104 functions |
Argus
1996
This was the first back-office application designed by Cale Access for the administration of Cale terminals within the MP 104 product family. It featured data exchange via modem or PC cards, updating of customer adatations (such as tariffs) and credit card black lists, monitoring of terminal status, automatic alarms from terminals via modem, graphic presentation of statistics, and much more. |
 MP 104 Compact (MPC)
2002 The powerful MP 104 gets a slimmer design filled with advanced functions.
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C-Argus
2002 Cale Access releases the new and improved back-office system C-Argus with multi user support and improved user interface.
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Cale WebOffice (CWO)
2003
CWO creates a new trend in back-office management of payment terminals. CWO is an internet based service that does not require any PC softwar to be installed. An ordinary web reader is all that is required. New applications and functions are launched centrally without requiring any customer resoruces for installation, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting.
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 MP 104 XL
2004 Third generation of Cale bank note reader terminals are released. Improved security and bank note acceptance functions. |
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