This rooftop features a multi‑level parking garage, with robots handling your car—pick‑up or drop‑off takes just three minutes.

A three‑level automated parking structure has been built on the rooftop, operating 24/7 without on‑site staff and allowing drivers to retrieve their vehicles in just three minutes. On the 12th, a reporter from the Yangtze Daily–Yangtze Net learned from the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission that this rare rooftop multi‑storey parking facility—uncommon in China—was independently developed and designed by a Wuhan‑based state‑owned enterprise. Located atop a four‑story mixed‑use building at Fudi Haishang on Jiangang Road in Hanyang, the parking system has been completed and in operation for nearly four months.

“As a required component of the residential development, a parking facility had to be built to pass inspection. However, given the circumstances at the time, constructing an underground parking garage would have been prohibitively expensive, so the developer turned to us,” said Zhong Shoucheng, chairman of the Industrial Control Research Institute under Wuhan Industrial Holdings Group and the project’s R&D and design lead.

This three‑level, multi‑storey parking garage on the rooftop offers 193 parking spaces, transforming previously underused rooftop space into an intelligent “sky‑parking” facility that integrates vehicle inquiry, rapid parking, convenient payment, and parking‑space management. When parking, drivers don’t need to go upstairs; they simply park their car in a designated area on the ground, and a transport robot will move the vehicle to the rooftop. An automated dispatch system then assigns an available spot for storage. To retrieve the car, a quick swipe of the card triggers its automatic descent, with the entire process taking only about three minutes.

Multi‑storey smart parking garages built on rooftops like this are far from easy to integrate seamlessly—covering everything from design and construction to management and automation—and remain quite rare in China. For instance, achieving fully unmanned operation with 24/7 automated dispatching requires sophisticated AI algorithms, placing high demands on the technology and driving up costs. “However, such systems do meet a specific market need, particularly in areas where underground parking is scarce, and they can accommodate more than three times as many vehicles as a conventional parking lot of the same footprint.”

Thanks to its proximity to the Zhongjia Village commercial district, parking demand is high, and the rooftop parking facility is currently performing well. Moving forward, they plan to leverage this cutting-edge technology to design and build a 200-space smart automated parking garage in Huashan.

In recent years, the Institute of Industrial Control has focused on the demand for smart parking and has been dedicated to the research and development of innovative smart-parking technologies. Its intelligent parking AGV robots and intelligent multi‑storey parking systems have been designated as part of Wuhan’s second batch of pilot demonstration projects for intelligent manufacturing.