Unity5: How to Monitor Bays in Multiple Car Parks

From Parent & Child, Visitor, Resident, Reserved and EV Charging to Commercial spaces – how can you easily monitor bays across multiple car parks? You’re going to need economic 24/7 enforcement across your sites in all weathers and perhaps with limited power sources.

You also need fully configurable rules and tariffs too, with no headaches or worries about downtime. Digital Patrolling is the answer.

The good news is that Digital Patrolling for car parks is empowering parking operators and landowners to oversee parking rules 24/7 in near real-time, with unparalleled efficiency and accuracy. Changing the way we monitor and enforce.

Big wins for Operators

• Optimise resource allocation and reduce operational costs in an increasingly challenging economic climate.
• Enhance the motorist experience through seamless, non-confrontational, and equitable enforcement.
• Future-proof parking estates by providing a flexible, scalable platform capable of integrating with emerging mobility trends (e.g. EV charging management) and advanced technologies (AI, enhanced data analytics).
• Gain granular insights into parking usage, compliance, and revenue. Deep data enables truly intelligent planning and decision-making for complex, multi-use and remote environments. Dynamic Dashboards provide all the insights and reports you need in one place.

Unity5 are market-leaders for Choice and Integration

The development and implementation of Digital Patrolling for car parks has been a collaborative effort, driven by Unity5’s dedicated product and commercial teams in the UK, alongside close partnerships with our pioneering UK clients and technology providers such as Milesight, Vaxtor, NVA, Sulivision and Reolink.

Technical Partnership Manager, Jono Clark, says: “Our success is rooted in strong collaboration with partners, ensuring a holistic ecosystem. Using complementary technologies to enhance customer experiences.”

Digital Patrolling for Car Parks – beyond basic ANPR Free Flow

Implementing Digital Patrolling for car parks involves deploying an interconnected suite of advanced technologies, centrally managed through Unity5’s systems. This extends far beyond traditional ANPR ‘free flow’ systems, which typically offer limited functionality for simple entry/exit enforcement. Our approach allows for sophisticated, granular control over diverse parking environments.

The typical implementation includes:

Advanced ANPR Cameras

Strategically deployed at ingress/egress points and critical internal zones, capturing high-accuracy data on vehicle movements. These aren’t just for ‘free flow’; they are the data-gathering backbone for dynamic enforcement.

‘Bay Monitoring’ Cameras & Sensors – even for Remote Sites

For complex multi-use spaces (e.g. EV charging, parent & child, staff-only bays), these cameras, sometimes supplemented by ground sensors, provide real-time occupancy and compliance verification for specific bays. They offer Precision Zoom and up to a 360-degree Field of View (FOV). Chosen cameras can be solar-powered to give you 24/7 monitoring in even your most remote sites, where power sources are scarce or simply not available.

This directly addresses the significant challenge of managing mixed-use zones where ‘free flow’ alone would not suffice.

Integrated Kiosks & Cashless Payment Solutions

Seamlessly connected to the central platform, these features enable diverse payment options and permit validation, with all data flowing in real-time.

Centralised Software Platform (Zatpark)

This is the brain of the operation:

• Integrates all data streams
• Applies complex configurable rules
• Automate enforcement workflows
• Provides comprehensive reporting

It allows operators to define highly specific parking policies for different zones or times, automating alerts or contravention issuance based on nuanced requirements.

Proven results for the Digital Patrolling of Car Parks

The successes speak for themselves. One provider who has added additional cameras to monitor EV bays specifically has seen a 74% payment rate so far (vs the 50% industry average), with an average of just 16 days to payment. Only 1.7% of their issued PCNs have gone to POPLA (independent appeals service for Parking Charge Notices)/IAS (Independent Appeals Service), 0 have been upheld.

James Hampton, Product Manager at Unity5, said: “Bay monitoring cameras clearly show if a non-EV (ICE) vehicle is parked in an EV-specific bay, with the signage and charger behind the bay. The solution allows for defined evidence capture, meaning you have clear and granular evidence proving the vehicle was there.”

You gain all of this with Digital Patrolling from Unity5

• High-accuracy data on vehicle movements
• Bay Monitoring Cameras & Sensors
• Kiosks & Cashless Payment Solutions
• Centralised Software Platform

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