Improve parking security with cost-effective surveillance

More than 75% of prospective video surveillance customers want to improve their parking security and/or operations according to a recent Eagle Eye Networks survey.

Too often, though, businesses look to improve the safety of their parking areas after an incident has occurred. The reality is that proactive measures can prevent these incidents from happening in the first place. And that’s where a flexible and scalable system like Eagle Eye Networks comes in.

Cloud video surveillance is a powerful tool for parking security and operations. With real-time monitoring and recording capabilities, you can see patterns in traffic flow, identify areas where people tend to linger, analyze footage using AI, and optimize your parking lot for better efficiencies.

The following blog outlines benefits of cloud-based parking surveillance, how to improve parking security, use cases for license plate recognition, and more with Eagle Eye Networks.

Benefits of cloud-based parking surveillance

All businesses and organizations should consider their parking surveillance as part of their overall security strategy.

There are several reasons that cloud-based surveillance systems like Eagle Eye Cloud VMS (Video Management System) work particularly well for parking areas:

1. Remote system access
2. Simple steps to view, download, and share video
3. Reduced on-site hardware
4. Alerts for irregular activity
5. System flexibility to use existing cameras

These are the fundamental benefits of cloud video surveillance, but with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and video analytics, the Eagle Eye Cloud VMS can do even more.

Identify and track vehicles with license plate recognition

Knowing who is using your parking areas is the first step to improved parking security and operations. Businesses around the world are using license plate recognition technology for monitoring and access control, to keep track of vehicle fleets, protect employee and registered guest parking, prevent crime before it happens, and even generate new revenue.

Eagle Eye LPR (License Plate Recognition) is an AI-powered and highly accurate license plate recognition technology that works with any surveillance camera in a variety of challenging conditions – increasing business security and efficiency while lowering costs.

Combined with the Eagle Eye Vehicle Surveillance Package (VSP), businesses of all sizes can monitor vehicles in their parking areas for security, automate parking access, and search through history to find specific plates, times, and locations.

Know who was last to leave the office, or what vehicles used the parking lot over the weekend. Set alerts for designated license plates and find specific vehicles to share with law enforcement. Eagle Eye LPR is an essential solution that eliminates the guesswork of what vehicles are using your parking.

Improve parking security with AI

Eagle Eye LPR is just one of the features from Eagle Eye Networks that uses artificial intelligence to improve video surveillance. Additional AI-powered features can be applied to improve parking security. 

Eagle Eye Smart Video Search uses AI to give all users the ability to search their surveillance video for people, vehicles, and objects and immediately find the video they are looking for. Use Smart Video Search to quickly find a suspicious person or vehicle by description (man with red shirt, blue Toyota).

Smart Layouts is a visual tool that uses AI to prioritize cameras with detected motion to the top of the VMS dashboard layout so that live activity is immediately viewable. On duty staff can be aware of activity in parking areas and monitor that activity to ensure 24/7 safety. Smart Layouts is a feature that is available with Eagle Eye Professional and Enterprise Editions.

Save money and streamline operations with parking automation

Businesses want parking automation to improve operational efficiency and the customer experience. There is significant growth in the automated parking system market for everything from access control to occupancy tracking and enforcement. But stand alone automated parking systems can be expensive to implement. Adapting existing video surveillance systems provides an affordable way to add parking automation rather than investing in a new system. 

Eagle Eye Cloud VMS offers additional video analytics features, including Eagle Eye LPR, to provide practical, cost-effective solutions that automate parking. Here are some additional ways that video surveillance analytics can be used for parking applications:

• Line crossing and Counting – Line crossing and counting analytics can be used to track the number of available parking spaces to manage parking capacity.
• Loitering – Loitering analytics can detect cars waiting for a length of time for parking spaces and prompt an alert for a parking manager to review.

In general, data gathered from video analytics can be used by business owners and operators to make informed decisions about their parking areas.