License Plate Recognition System Automates Vehicle Access Control

Hi-Tech Solutions Ltd. recently announced that its License Plate Recognition system -- SeeCar -- was selected to automate access control to 1,300 parking spaces, including guest parking, in B.S.R. Towers, a complex of two office towers located in Israel.

SeeCar is integrated in Fast Park, a comprehensive, automatic parking management system, developed by AFCON Control & Automation and T.I.B.A., an AFCON subsidiary. AFCON is installing the system in B.S.R. Towers.

Located on the border of two Israeli towns, Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak, the first B.S.R. Tower comprises 26 floors and the second B.S.R. Tower comprises 31 floors. Both towers have underground parking garages, with a total capacity of 1,300 cars.

Each company or office in the two towers has several parking spaces (the number varies by company). In addition, the towers’ management allocates a specific number of parking spaces for guests to each company, according to the tenancy agreement. Using the new system, each company will be able to issue entrance permits independently, using a Web interface.

By integrating HTS’s LPR system, AFCON's Fast Park will allow entrance to permitted vehicles, reading and identifying their license plate numbers, and issuing a special ticket at the barrier at the parking lot entrance, guiding the guest to the parking space allotted to them. If a tenant company deviates from the number of entrance permits that it is allowed to issue to its guests, an alert will be sent to the relevant office/company management, and the system will automatically block entry to the excessive vehicles and present an appropriate message at the entry station.

“The new system highly improves the service we provide to the tenants,” said Yossi Cordoba, managing director of Ariel Properties Projects.

The Ariel Properties Group is Israel's largest group in the field of real estate management services. Ariel Group manages more than 130 office towers in Israel, 30 shopping centers, approximately 60 parking lots, thousands of residential apartments as well as vast real estate property in other countries, including Germany, Latvia, Cyprus and the Ukraine.

“The LPR application at B.S.R. Towers will not only streamline access control to tenants, but will also simplify the process of guest parking which often creates problems in many office buildings, where too many guest cars are allowed to enter the parking garages,” said Meta Rotenberg, HTS’s VP Business Development.

“We were highly impressed with the quality of HTS’s LPR solution and its ability to interface with other systems that we are implementing at B.S.R. Towers,” said Shay Rozenblat, manager of security and systems division, AFCON Control and Automation. “HTS helped us in developing the unique guest parking automation application, which we hope to implement in additional facilities worldwide.”

HTS’s LPR solutions implement proprietary image processing software architecture and algorithms for character and digit recognition, and specially developed camera and illumination systems optimally designed for capturing the target images. HTS’s LPR system includes self-developed recognition engine software for simple integration into other applications.

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