Smart & Secure Parking
Leverage EPIC iO’s IoT and AI analytics to identify suspicious activities in parking lots, and to understand the overall parking occupancy and parking bay availability, providing a more secure and smarter service to the community or business.
Solution
EPIC iO’s solution for Smart Parking and Parking Security Monitoring uses proprietary AI and IoT technology to monitor vehicles and pedestrians as they utilize the parking lot. Our solution identifies suspicious activities in parking lots, such as loitering, and automatically reports blacklisted vehicles through LPR. All this combined with 24/7 event monitoring and real-time alerting.
Advance technology
In addition, EPIC iO’s solution enables you to understand parking occupancy, track parking bay availability, and entry/exit count of vehicles through AI-based analytics. Automate the flow of traffic in your parking lot and effortlessly monitor parking space occupancy – all in real-time. Special handicap spots or electric vehicle charging bays can be reported separately.
Real-time data can be accessed through EPIC iO’s DeepInsights dashboard to predict parking demand, parking habits, and to support smart decision-making regarding infrastructure developments in the community.
Challenges
According to the US Department of Justice, parking lots are the third most common place where crimes occur with thousands of security incidents reported daily. The most frequent parking lot crimes are personal theft and vandalism, such as “smash-and-grab” crimes of opportunity.
For parking lot managers and public officials, maintaining safety is only part of the parking lot problem. Understanding parking lot usage, fluctuations per season, space saturation, utilization by type of vehicle, and delivery notifications – among other insights – is key for efficient city asset planning. Providing users with predictable data to anticipate their parking needs and direct visitors to underutilized parking areas is essential to customer satisfaction.
Anytime a bad guy or person of interest to law enforcement comes in here and their tag is read, it will notify our entire police department. We're trying to keep the bad guys out and protect our citizens.
PARKS HENDERSONVILLE
Director Andy Gilley
We hope the cameras will just scare people from doing anything wrong, but if they do anything wrong, we then have evidence to go after them.
HONOLULU PARKS
Director Michele Nekota
Video recording is stored at the edge, near the camera, for plus 30 days. Live video is pulled into DeepInsights cloud platform on demand so it does not consume your cellular bandwidth.
A small amount of plate metadata and the image of the plate is stored securely in the cloud for more than 60 days, making searching possible during this time. More storage capacity can be requested.
You will use DeepInsights to search for a license plate. You can export still images of the plate, a picture of the vehicle, and associated video.
The system consumes bandwidth to upload cropped images of the plates and metadata. As a rough guide, for 100,000 license plates in a month, the system will consume about 0.2 Mbps and about 2 GB per month.
Our solution allows us to recognize license plates at full speed on highways.
To read the plate accurately, the system relies on an IR illuminator and cutting out visible light. One of the repercussions of this technology is the LPR camera is usually unable to provide much additional information about the vehicle itself because it is so dark. For this reason, it is common to install an additional ‘context’ or ‘overview’ camera to try and capture some details about the vehicle – at the expense of license plate detail.
Yes, the system can reuse your fiber infrastructure instead of using a cellular connection.
The on-board battery completely powers the system for up to 30 days. Also, the camera has night vision, which uses an IR illumination to provide a clear image at night.
WATCH OUR SOLUTION
IN ACTION
City and urban parking is often difficult to find, leading to stressful environments for drivers. Continuously monitoring and enforcing the city’s parking rules and regulations is a financial and staffing burden for city governments.
SMART SOLUTION
BENEFITS
Increase Parking Lot Safety with Real-Time Alerting
Capture Video of Safety Incidents and Violations for Use as Evidence
Increase Parking Lot Safety with Real-Time Alerting
MAKING SMART COMMUNITIES
AFFORDABLE
EPIC iO enables your city’s law enforcement to benefit from our technology with an affordable monthly fee. Our affordable plan eliminates the initial expenditure and combines the cost of all the solution components:
All-in-one simple price that’s only a few hundred dollars per month provides a very low barrier to access cutting-edge security technology powered by AI and IoT.
LPR In Use
See how clients have utilized our Smart LPR solution to solve their unique security issues.
Case Study
PG&E
Case Study
Friant Water
Perimeter Solution Components
Ruggedized edge compute gateway (UIG) with AI hardware acceleration
High resolution cameras pointing to the restricted
areas
EPIC iO AI Software for loitering, trespassing, and license plate recognition
Deep Insights for Visualization, Search and
Video Management
Cellular 4G/LTE connectivity (5G where available)
“Voice down” loudspeaker and microphone
Solar power source
(optional add-on)
24x7 remote support and event monitoring service