As a place that brings sales, service, spare parts, and surveys together, car dealerships cover a large range of activities. With many valuable cars on display, security can be very complex and difficult. How to ensure safety while providing a pleasant experience for customers has always been a critical question for car dealership managers.

VF&T’s Solutions by Scenario for Car Dealerships integrates video security, commercial displays, alarm systems, and a unified platform to provide a safe, efficient and comprehensive way to manage the facilities.

Parking Lots

Challenges
As a service provider, car dealerships must offer a fluid and efficient experience for customers. However, when large numbers of customers come to visit and the cars to be repaired start to back up, parking issues become especially challenging. Keeping cars safe during rush hours, congestion, and limited parking is crucial. A convenient parking experience is the first step to making a good first impression for customers.

Rush hour efficiency

Limited parking

VF&T offers non-stop entry and a fluid exit experience for customers. ANPR-empowered products and easy-to-retrieve vehicle records make parking management at car dealership more convenient and efficient.

Entrance & Exit management

BENEFITS

  • Secure and fluid vehicle ingress and egress
  • Simplified evidence collection and detailed vehicle records
  • Boosted operational efficiency via statistics reports

FEATURES

  • Recording of vehicle license plates, images, and video
  • ANPR license plate fuzzy match, event filter, date & time, and more
  • Vehicle counting for analysis
  • Remote center calling when booth attendant is off-duty

Perimeters

Challenges
Car dealership perimeters require reliable video security with easy-to-retrieve records to protect valuable cars and other expensive assets. Since dealerships typically sit under dim lighting at night with few staff on duty, precise intrusion detections and quick responses are critical – especially when emergencies occur.

Delayed responses to emergency

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Difficulty retrieving records

Various CCTV choices including panoramic video and 24/7 color imaging provide efficient video security and wide-area video coverage. Additionally, AI-empowered post-event searches with various filters help quickly locate targets of interest in recorded footage. 

BENEFITS

  • High clarity, more effective visual details around the clock
  • False alarm reduction to help security focus on human/vehicle incidents
  • Instant alerts with onsite lighting and audio to deter trespassers

FEATURES

  • 24/7 HD video with color
  • AI false alarm reduction 
  • Built-in light and sound on selected models

BENEFITS

  • Advanced evidence gathering; quick search of targets
  • Highly adaptive to various AI perimeter application needs

FEATURES

  • Deep learning/AI/multi-intelligence in one camera
  • Object attribute analysis

BENEFITS

  • Broader monitoring range without information loss
  • Details for quick searches and automatic recording reduce the manual workload of car dealership staffs
  • Reduced installation and deployment costs

FEATURES

  • Big picture and details in one view 
  • Leading screen-stitching technology enhancing panoramic views
  • Integrated design and single IP access

Main Entrance

Challenges
The main entrances at a car dealership is critical for both security and marketing – the staff need to keep alert of approaching risks such as unknown trespassers. They must also provide timely services for guests at the same time. Additionally, the main entrance is also an important marketing location with opportunities to optimize profitability.

Unknown trespassers

Delayed service response

VF&T provides AI-empowered video security with queue management, along with one-touch panic buttons, improving operational service efficiency and security levels. Commercial displays can be placed at the main entrance of the car dealership to display promotional information of cars and attract more customers.

Video security with people counting

BENEFITS

  • Various powerful features in one camera, enhancing security levels 
  • Improved service quality and staff deployment via queue management
  • Quick and discreet emergency info via one-touch panic button

FEATURES

  • HD video, deep learning/AI queue detection 
  • Multi-camera, multi-line queue statistics supported with HikCentral Professional
  • One-touch panic alarm, support for remote video verification

Guest welcoming & advertising

BENEFITS

  • Attractive and professional content display
  • Simple device maintenance
  • Quick and easy content release and update 

FEATURES

  • Various built-in program templates, online program design
  • Flexible program creation and publishing schedules to multiple screens at multiple locations
  • Support for various media formats including live video
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Showroom & Maintenance Areas

Challenges
Showrooms and maintenance areas are key places where customers, cars, salesmen, and maintenance staffs intertwine. These key areas require 24/7 security protection and timely responses to intrusion and potential risks – risks such as fire, water-leakage, and broken glass, along with easy-to-retrieve records for evidence management.

Intrusion and potential risks

Emergency response delay

A wide variety of network camera choices provide high clarity video 24/7 for showroom and maintenance areas at dealerships. Additionally, easy-to-deploy wireless alarm systems fuse into one platform, providing multi-dimensional situational awareness to enhance security levels. 

Professional video security

BENEFITS

  • Wide variety of HD video choices based on scenario, budget, and so on. 
  • False alarm reduction, helping security focus on abnormal activities

FEATURES

  • Various choices of form factors, HD video, and optical performance
  • Excellent low-light performance, clear imaging against strong back light 
  • AcuSense AI false alarm reduction 

BENEFITS

  • Wide area and viewing angle coverage with high clarity details
  • False alarm reduction, helping security focus on abnormal incidents
  • Instant alerts with on-site light and sound to deter trespassers

FEATURES

  • 8 MP HD video, 180˚ FOV
  • 24/7 HD video with color
  • AcuSense AI false alarm reduction 
  • Visual and auditory warnings
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BENEFITS

  • Wide area ultra-HD details with minimize installation
  • Panoramic viewing from the camera, excellent dim light performance
  • Robust for harsh environments deployment

FEATURES

  • Wide-area, ultra-HD video coverage up to 180 degrees
  • Multi-lens image stitching for panoramic views
  • DarkFighter technology

BENEFITS

  • Robust materials for maintenance areas with moisture and chemicals
  • High clarity video records for scenarios with frequent lighting changes

FEATURES

  • Various choices of form factors, HD video, and optical performance
  • Weather- and vandal-proof
  • Anti-corrosion models adapted to maintenance areas of dealerships

Reliable alarm management

BENEFITS

  • Sensors detect risks and threats like fire, water-leakage, and broken glass in the early stages
  • Instant alarm push with video verification, keeping personnel informed with added visibility
  • Various wireless alarm I/O components, easy-to-deploy for common scenarios

FEATURES

  • PIR & microwave dual-tech intrusion alarms
  • Smoke detection, glass-break sensors, and sensors for doors forced open
  • Video verification for alarm, push notifications to desktop clients and mobile devices through the app

Offices

Challenges
Car dealership offices require secure and fluid access for authorized staff, clients, and customers, along with easy-to-use tools to manage attendance records.

Low efficiency due to identity check in rush hours

Disputes and difficulties in maintaining attendance records

Smooth access for registered personnel with a convenient and touch-free, walk-in experience, along with easy-to-retrieve attendance records for administrators, improving personnel entry and management efficiency.

BENEFITS

  • Simple, adaptable deployment for access, video intercom, and attendance in one unit
  • Various report templates and automated emailing boost management efficiency

FEATURES

  • Automated authentication access using face images, cards, fingerprints, and others
  • Video intercom for remotely granting access
  • Access/attendance record retrieval and report exporting 

Control Rooms

Challenges
Dealership control rooms typically see various subsystems and multiple types of equipment strung together. Limited inter-application visibility and controls with difficult maintenance will double the daily workload for security personnel.

Limited staff, various subsystems

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Complex IT maintenance

Intuitive display and reliable storage with an all-in-one platform for video security, incident handling, remote control, evidence management, and maintenance, making control room management more simple and efficient.

Unified management, lightweight deployment

BENEFITS

  • Highly informative and visualized to reflect on-going, full-site status
  • Cross-system interoperability; easy response & handling of incidents
  • Custom viewing panel per roles/users; improved service for a variety of operational needs

FEATURES

  • Unified management of multiple subsystems, sites and users
  • Cross-system display, controls, incident handling, storage, and evidence collection
  • System and device health dashboards and reports

Intuitive display, reliable evidence management

BENEFITS

  • Adapts to various display options: PC display adaptors and 4K professional LCD/LED video walls
  • System overview and real-time incidents at a glance
  • Flexible search criteria to simplify event investigation operations

FEATURES

  • Cross-device, cross-site display and retrieval
  • Auto alarm pop-ups with video, PC screen projection of e-Map/GIS, AI/BI dashboards, and more
  • Record retrieval, evidence classification and automatic archiving