Parking Enforcement

With an ever-increasing volume of cars on the road, the pressure on space in which to park these vehicles has also increased significantly. This pressure leads to further congestion and over and above that of the simple weight of traffic and therefore has led towns and cities, since the beginning of the automotive industry, to impose restrictions on where, when and for how long cars can be parked. In order to ensure compliance with these restrictions, there must be an effective way to enforce them.

Up to 20 years ago, enforcement was done primarily by traffic wardens on the street with paper tickets. Since then, in most developed countries, mobile handheld computers have gradually replaced a paper ticketing system. These mobile computers provide the officer on the street with more efficient ways of working and improved accuracy of data entry.

With changes in the way in which parking systems operate, including payment by mobile phone and similar methods, the need increases to have a fully-connected mobile computer so that the officer can query a database for real-time data on the rights of a particular vehicle to be in a certain location.

MaxID’s parking enforcement handhelds use automatic number plate recognition to identify the vehicle and can communicate using GPRS to a central database to verify the legality of a particular vehicle. At the same time, the color camera and on-board GPS can dramatically improve both the accuracy and the reliability of the data gathered about the vehicle, its location and the nature of its infraction.

MaxID has been involved in providing hardware for field operations for police and other enforcement officers for a number of years, with more than 6,000 law enforcement and public safety handheld devices having been deployed.