David Feldt. Finding meaning in the noise. Innovating within the social business web. Proud father. Entrepreneur. Builder.

This afternoon, Streetline announced their first consumer parking app for the iPhone, Parker:

It’s one of the first applications I’ve seen that delivers on the promise of mobile, local, social and realtime together in an elegant offering that solves the parking problem we all face in today’s major cities across the World. From their website: No more circling the block looking for parking. No more running late because you can’t find a spot. No more relying on luck. Now, there’s an app for all that! Streetline’s Parker app makes parking easy by guiding you directly to open spaces, even in congested neighborhoods. The future is finally here. Streetline was just named “IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year”

According to TechCrunch: Streetline’s goal is to help communities cut traffic congestion, wasted energy, drive time, and noise and air pollution from cars. The startup, backed by Sutter Hill Ventures, works with builder-contractors to install its proprietary sensors in the ground, and additional repeaters and gateways up in light poles and trees, to make a mesh network. Once an area’s streets are rendered “smart,” they can record and report when cars arrive, occupy or depart spaces (and more). The sensors, manufactured in Mountain View, Calif., have been installed in about 3,000 spaces through Los Angeles city blocks in Hollywood, Studio City and parts of Chinatown so far reports the chief executive of Streetline, Zia Yusuf. Tweet