Nowadays, parking lots operators are striving to make the most economical use of their lots. Drivers have difficulty finding a free space conveniently in enormous parking lots. Even car park operators often complain about the low utilization of spaces.

VF&T‘s  Parking Lot Management Solutions can guide drivers to a free space quickly, and streamline the flow of parking, freeing up spaces more quickly for further occupation, helping optimizing operation, and providing extra layers of security.

Entrance & exit management

Challenges

Entrances and exits are always a top concern, especially when there are time requirements and labor costs involved. Intelligent vehicle authentication is highly required for enhanced security and smooth passage experience, such as block-list alarm, ANPR detection, etc.

Another common need is record keeping – how to quickly locate vehicles of interest to provide evidence and resolve disputes effectively.

Rush hour congestion

Difficult record retrieval

VF&T offers smooth entry and exit experience with authorized license plates to boost access efficiency. With ANPR-empowered products, vehicle records are easy to retrieve for efficient operation. 

Vehicle records

BENEFITS

  • Simplify the vehicles records and retrieval for efficient security management
  • Visualize data analysis of vehicles to explore more operation insights

FEATURES

  • Recording of vehicle license plates, images, and video
  • ANPR license plate fuzzy match, event filter, date & time,…
  • Blocklist alarm
  • Vehicle counting for analysis

Access authentication

BENEFITS

  • Improve traffic efficiency with smooth passing through experience
  • Enhanced security by authentication and video record
  • Manage temporary vehicles effectively with manual adjustment

FEATURES

  • Support vehicle authentication, blocklist alarm, and passing vehicle monitoring
  • Manual license correction and barrier control
  • Call remote center for no-toll-booth scenario or when the booth is off-duty
  • Support statistics of operation data

Indoor Parking Guidance

Challenges
Drivers have all been in a situation when they arrive somewhere early or on time and are made late by not being able to find a space. Difficult to find a free space and relocate conveniently in enormous parking lots does puzzle all drivers.

Difficult finding available parking spaces

Forget where vehicle parked

VF&T provides an intuitive indicator for efficient parking, taking data from parking guidance cameras and showing the numbers and locations of all available spaces on the indoor display screens. It gives drivers further direction on how to get to free spaces, making navigating large car parks less stressful. 

BENEFITS

  • Elevated parking experience via full-cycle visual guidance 
  • Improved rush hour efficiency, helping drivers quickly find vacant parking spaces and quickly locating where a vehicle was parked

FEATURES

  • Display vacant parking spaces in each direction
  • Multi-color light indications of parking space type and status
  • Self-service inquiry of vehicle parking location

Parking Fee Rules

Challenges
Most parking lots operations face serious efficiency challenges during rush hours. Wrongful charges and fraud attempts slow down operations and result in loss – often due to the lack of systematic parking lot management.

Rush hour processing efficiency

Wrongful charges and attempted fraud

VF&T provides flexible parking fee rule configuration and retrievable vehicle payment records for most fee policies, helping speed up daily operations and prevent loss with various features, such as discount and coupon management, automatic receipt display, etc.

BENEFITS

  • Great usability with most commonly-used fee configuration
  • Boost loss prevention and anti-fraud tactics
  • Enhanced operation with more intuitive data-driven management 

FEATURES

  • Flexible parking fee rule configuration
  • Support personalized payment rules 
  • Support discount, coupon, and card/ticket cost management 
  • Support license plate record
  • Pay at Exit booth, prepay at toll station or account top-up

Operation & Management

Challenges
Most parking lots are lack of effective management of the space occupation, detailed records, low utilization, video evidence, etc., to enhance the parking operation efficiency and security

Parking lot operation management challenge 01

Lack of video evidence for disputes

Weak operation without statistics

VF&T helps operators maximize their efficiency and returns using management statistics, such as detailed entry and exit records, statistics on vehicle flow, space utilization, and more. 

BENEFITS

Adding Efficiency for Parking Management

  • Vehicle records retrieval with automatic plate recognition
  • Video record provides evidence for better dispute settlement

Operation statistical report for better decision

  • Diverse reports to explore more operational insights
  • Detailed charges and visual management to optimize the management effectiveness

FEATURES

  • Flexible and efficient entrance & exit management, featuring customizable access rules for vehicles and integration with ANPR cameras or self-service card & ticket dispensers
  • Intuitive and efficient parking operation and transaction reports, such as detailed entry and exit records, statistics on vehicle flow, space utilization, etc.