If your parking authority, agency, or department has not yet integrated license plate reader technology into your daily operations, you can save substantial time and money by doing so. ELSAG® LPR solutions are streamlining parking management and enforcement processes by reading license plates and collecting associated data that allows you to manage turnkey operations from one central software—regardless of the vendor or vendors you may currently use. 

ELSAG LPR parking technologies are ideal for use in lots, garages, and on-street parking areas, aiding both permit-based and timed parking operations. Their flexibility supports partially automated systems to full PARCS to unique parking scenarios such as nested lots and sites.

What Is A License Plate Reader?

If you’re familiar with license plate readers for law enforcement, we’re talking about the same technology. A license plate reader is a hardware and software system that consists of digital cameras that read vehicle license plates capturing the following data for each read:

• License plate number
• A close-up photo of the license plate
• A color photo of the license plate area of the vehicle
• The make, type, and color of the vehicle
• GPS coordinates for the physical location of the plate read
• Date and time stamps of the read

The ELSAG system wirelessly deposits all the LPR data into a robust software management system, the ELSAG Enterprise Operations Center (ELSAG EOC), for daily operations.

How Does ELSAG LPR Optimize Parking Management?

ELSAG LPR technology streamlines your business in three critical ways:

1. Saves time and money
2. Increases compliance and revenue
3. Improves public safety

By automating operations and consolidating data, ELSAG LPR parking solutions help decrease the time your associates spend on managing daily processes and help increase the opportunities to boost revenue. Here’s how:

One Data Repository

The ELSAG EOC is a game-changer when it comes to managing data. The EOC not only manages data from your LPR cameras but also receives parking session data from the other sources you may already use, such as:

• Kiosks
• Meters
• Websites
• Mobile apps

The ELSAG EOC can manage all your parking session data within the EOC regardless of how they are created (app, website, kiosk, etc.). ELSAG LPR solutions can integrate with virtually all parking vendors, and that is a time-saver you can’t ignore.

Easier, Faster Enforcement

ELSAG LPR practically automates parking enforcement for time-based and permitted parking systems.

Because the EOC generates whitelists of vehicles allowed to park in a zone, whether paid parking sessions, permits, or other exempt vehicles, LPR-outfitted enforcement vehicles can quickly identify illegally parked vehicles. Each license plate read by the LPR system automatically and instantly compares each plate number to the whitelist. If the system reads a plate not included on the list, audible and visual alarms are generated on the in-car laptop.

Increased Revenue Generation

The ELSAG EOC will have a positive effect on an agency’s bottom line through operational optimizations and improvements, but our solutions can also help generate additional revenue in three ways:

1. The enforcement automation allows officials to find illegally parked vehicles quicker, increasing the number of tickets generated. Without ELSAG LPR, it is likely that a more significant percentage of illegally parked vehicles are never identified or ticketed. 
2. Over time, motorists begin to understand the efficiency of their community’s LPR enforcement and the increased likelihood of being ticketed that comes with it. Awareness typically spurs an increase in voluntary compliance, creating a more efficient turnover of spaces which is one of the main goals of most parking programs.
3. Using databases of license plates flagged due to payment issues, enforcement officials increase the likelihood of finding those scofflaw vehicles, which can be booted or towed to encourage faster payment of delinquent fees.

Other Benefits of ELSAG LPR Parking Management Solutions

ELSAG LPR benefits reach far beyond financial considerations. These powerful solutions can provide insights to help improve your program’s efficiencies while helping to keep your community safer, in these two ways:

1. The ELSAG EOC data management system is designed for in-depth queries, analysis, and reporting. By looking closely at your data, you identify traffic patterns, down times, busy surges that can help you adjust operations to maximize efficiencies.
2. If your local law enforcement agency already uses ELSAG LPR, and the ELSAG EOC, you can choose to add your LPR data to their EOC (or server) with them to aid their public safety missions. Even if they don’t use ELSAG LPR, you can provide access to the LPR data for investigative efforts.

With flexibility, scalability, and customized systems to meet your agency’s needs, there’s no better time to automate and simplify your parking management operations with ELSAG LPR solutions. We can help you build an LPR parking solution from the ground up or integrate with your current vendor partners for an optimized program that saves—and makes—you time and money.