Creative solutions to modernize Mobile LPR

License Plate Inventory (LPI ) and Parking Enforcement, two key methods in Parking management, have three things in common: 

1. they require agents to supervise the premises and 

2. they have been doing it manually, on foot or using heavily modified vehicles. According to Laura Caillot, Survision’s USA General Manager, 

3. They have been rescued from the past and obsolescence by LPR!

Rapidly increasing traffic brings more challenges: more data is needed to be processed, more clients need to be serviced, and more infractors need to be detected.. and it has to be done faster than ever before.

LPI and Parking enforcement are perfect scenarios where updates can make huge differences: Back in 2015, Survision partnered with Segway for a public parking enforcement project where Picopak (the world’s smallest LPR camera) was mounted on one of their scooters and paired with a mobile app, creating the first mobile LPR solution which managed to get fascinating results:

A single parking control agent equipped with a Picopak-Segway could accurately check up to 1000 vehicles a day, much more than the 300 that could be done by foot. 

Not just because of its size but also it’s fast, serverless and triggerless processing capability, Picopak is versatile enough to successfully read plates, literally on the go, with high accuracy, which makes it perfect for LPI and enforcement operations.

We are now taking our deep experience-based knowledge of the LPR field to the next level: from LPR hardware providers to LPR solutions developers, with our two new Mobile LPR solutions specific for every field of action:

1. LPI to GO Police forces are already using Mobile License Plate Inventory (LPI) Solution based on Picopak, the world’s smallest LPR camera
2. Platenforce Mobile LPR Enforcement Solution based on Picopak

These new solutions are hardware/software bundles that rely on our little battle warrior, the Picopak, to be combined with a specific, ad-hoc, self-developed app for each case, working on a tablet (also provided). The set is lightweight and standalone, so it can be mounted in any vehicle (from bikes to golf carts) and moved anytime to another vehicle.

One of the main features of these solutions is 4G connectivity, which makes it capable of transmitting its already LPR-processed digital data to the cloud in real-time, making any other piece of hardware unnecessary, redefining the words “versatile” and “adaptable.”

Survision LPI to GO and Platenforce are what we think “the state of the art of Mobile LPR should be”: Light, adaptable, precise, fast … and connected!