LPR (license plate recognition)
Cameras that read plates and check them against a list.
Licence plate recognition — LPR, or ANPR outside the United States — uses a camera and software to read a vehicle’s registration plate and compare it against a list of plates that are allowed, or not allowed, to be there. It can be fixed at an entrance or mounted on a patrol vehicle.
LPR is a way of reading plates quickly; it is not a way of deciding who may park. The decision still comes from a register of permits, and the quality of the register decides whether the camera is useful or merely fast at being wrong. For a lot of a few hundred spaces, a person typing a plate into a phone answers the same question for no capital cost.
See also
- Parking enforcement — Checking that parked vehicles are permitted, and acting when they are not.
- Patrol round — A walk or drive through a lot, checking the vehicles in it.
Parking, handled.
Permits, guest passes, enforcement, contracts and monthly billing for the building you actually manage.