The AutoVu™ automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system for parking management helps your team identify more violations and scofflaws in less time, leading to better compliance. This flexible solution also gives you insights about parking usage, lot occupancy, and traffic flow. That means you can keep enhancing your services to make on and off-street parking an easy and enjoyable experience for all your customers.
Manual enforcement hurts your productivity and compliance
Manually checking parking permits and looking for scofflaws is time-consuming and inefficient. Even when your officers work tirelessly to patrol a city or campus, it might not be enough to ensure high compliance.
Your parking team already has a lot on their plate. Finding the time to figure out how your parking lots, garages, and curbs are being used every day can drain your resources and budgets even more. But this information is vital to your decision-making as you seek to optimize your parking inventory and improve your services. Finding an easier way to gather those insights is crucial to your operations.
People don’t like getting ticketed. It’s why your officers can often be the target of violent outbursts. And whether or not they experience any physical threats, being exposed to disgruntled drivers is mentally and emotionally taxing. In some cases, this can lead to burnout and even temporary leave. Keeping your parking team safe is always a top priority in parking management.
When people park, they want to know that they’ll be safe. That’s why some parking teams also implement and manage security systems. The challenge is that if something happens in a lot or garage, it can become overwhelming for operators to search through video, access control, intercom, or other systems to figure out what happened. Managing your parking and security systems in one unified platform makes everything easier.
Your team might spend a lot of time and money issuing and printing physical permits. Collecting and paying for permits can be a hassle for your customers too. The bigger problems occur when customers forget their permits, move them around to different vehicles, or begin sharing them with others. With physical permits, parking becomes more complicated to enforce and fraud is almost impossible to quantify.
“It’s really nice to be in a position where we can be talking about service enhancements without increasing prices. Thanks to the AutoVu system, we have better access to data. That helps us manage our lots more efficiently and helps us provide better service to customers. It’s win-win.”
Victor A. Hill
MPA, CAPP, Director of Parking and Transportation Services at University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
Embrace faster, more efficient parking enforcement
Using the AutoVu ALPR system, your parking team can complete their patrols faster and enforce many parking rules at once. As your team drives around, the AutoVu ALPR cameras mounted on your enforcement vehicles scan license plates. The system then automatically alerts your team to parking violations and scofflaws.
You can also eliminate installation and maintenance headaches by hosting your ALPR system in the cloud with AutoVu Managed Services.
Let data guide your parking management decisions
Parking as we know it is changing. Today’s customers are using parking spots and curbside real estate to drop off deliveries, pick up ride-hailing users, catch public transit, and more.
The AutoVu ALPR system gives you the data you need to better plan parking usage and enhance customer mobility. Everything from citation statistics, parking trends, live map-based queries, and more can help inform decisions as you adapt to new parking demands.
Create a first-rate parking experience
The AutoVu Mobile Post Payment solution eliminates the congestion associated with pre-and post-event parking. It allows attendees to arrive at a venue, park their vehicle, enjoy the event, and even leave without stopping to use on-site payment equipment. Instead, they can pay for parking from the comfort and safety of their own home.
AutoVu pay-by-plate allows you to create a system that includes permit, ticketing, and payment solutions from various providers. The license plate numbers act as virtual permits, allowing your customers to easily purchase long-term and transient passes using computers, phones, or pay stations.
The best part? There’s no more managing, sharing, or forgetting physical permits. The AutoVu system updates information in real-time, so your enforcement remains accurate.
Enhance parking enforcement across your gateless lots
What if you could know how many vehicles are in your lots right now and which of those vehicles are in violation? That’s the beauty of the AutoVu Free-Flow module. As vehicles enter and exit your gateless lots, AutoVu ALPR cameras record all vehicle license plates and information. You can then see parking lot occupancy, the number of unpermitted or overtime vehicles, and other real-time and historical trends to improve your enforcement efficiency.
Protect people with unified parking security
Protecting your enforcement officers, customers, and assets requires other security technology. With our AutoVu ALPR system, you can merge body-wearable devices, video cameras, access control readers, intercom stations, and more all within our unified platform, Security Center. This unified view keeps operator training to a minimum and ensures your team can stay proactive in responding to any incidents, so everyone stays safe.
The parking team at Cornell University wanted to work around compatibility issues with IT policies so they switched over to AutoVu Managed Services and now optimize parking enforcement, without the hassle of servers and maintenance.
At UBC, the parking team recouped their investment in the AutoVu ALPR system in less than six months. That’s because they’re working faster at finding scofflaws and boosting parking compliance.
Did you know that the City of Fort Lauderdale has seen a 1400% increase in scofflaw identification since using the AutoVu ALPR system? Embracing new technology has meant the team can spot parking violators faster.
