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How It Works

Vehicle Tracking System

STEP 1

Car Enters

Entrance camera automatically reads license plate

STEP 2

License Plate Recognition

AI captures and processes plate data instantly

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Recognized

STEP 3

Vehicle Tracking

Overhead cameras monitor movement throughout facility

STEP 4

Cloud Processing

System logs entry time, location, and vehicle data

STEP 5

Spot Detection

Parking space marked as occupied in real-time

STEP 6

Then the plate is checked against your rules.

Occupancy is the easy part. Authorization is the product: Spot matches the plate to whatever this lot actually honors, not a generic “allowed / not allowed” switch.

Checked against

  • Paid session

    An hourly or daily checkout that’s still running for this lot.

  • Permit

    A product that’s valid here, and at this hour, including semester and staff permits.

  • Validation

    Hotel room, tenant visitor, event pass, or any code an operator issued.

  • Allowlist

    VIP, service, and other plates that should never be ticketed.

  • Time rules

    Hours, duration caps, and grace periods you configured, not a generic timer.

If it matches

Nothing happens on the street.

The session is logged. The stall stays occupied on the map. Officers are not dispatched. Tracking stays on in case the stay overruns a duration cap later.

If it doesn’t

A citation opens with evidence.

Plate crop, lot, and timestamp land on the citation in seconds. The parker can pay or appeal. Watch can still void it. If you mail citations, owner lookup and the demand notice go through the vendor, nobody on your team stuffs envelopes.

That decision shows up in three places.

Cameras don’t have a second database. Admin, Watch, and the parker portal all read the same event.

  1. 01

    Admin Portal

    Operators see the session, the stall, and, if it was a miss, the citation on one record. No separate camera login.

    See the platform
  2. 02

    Spot Watch

    Officers can void, override, or pick the flag up in the field. Fully automated lots still keep the handheld as a backstop.

    Spot Watch app
  3. 03

    Manage My Visit

    The parker pays or appeals against the same evidence: plate crop, lot, and timestamps. Notices can also go out by mail when you use Mail-by-Citation.

    Manage My Visit