16/07/2007
Genetec helps the city of Baltimore find parking violators
Montreal, Canada
Tthe city of Baltimore (MD) has chosen Genetec's AutoVu Mobile license plate recognition solution to track down scofflaws with three or more 30-day overdue parking tickets. In the past, by inefficient means, parking officers had to manually enter each license plate number individually. Now Baltimore parking officers can patrol the city streets and identify violators instantly without leaving their AutoVu-equipped vehicles.
"Before buying the AutoVu Mobile solution, we would find approximately 250 violators in two weeks. Now, with AutoVu, we are identifying more than 350 violators over the same time period. Over the course of a year, this represents about 1.4 million dollars in additional revenue for the city" says Ken Strong, safety division chief of the Baltimore department of transportation.
The AutoVu Mobile system also allows parking supervisors to monitor officers' activity from the back-office. They can also perform searches and generate reports using the data collected by AutoVu.
Baltimore currently has four vehicles equipped with the AutoVu Mobile solution and plans to acquire additional systems in the coming year in order to identify parking violators in residential areas.
In addition to finding parking violators, AutoVu Mobile makes it possible to locate stolen vehicles. The AutoVu systems installed in Baltimore department of transportation vehicles are linked to a national database containing the license plate numbers of reported stolen vehicles. Whenever the system comes across one of these numbers, an alarm is triggered. In March alone, 38 stolen vehicles were identified by the system.
Global
