Access Control for Condominiums – Alice Traffic LPR
If you want to have control and traceability over a parking lot or you need to limit access to specific vehicles, un automated access control system with LPR is your best choice. If what you want is an easy-to-use system for both an operator and an administrator.
Keep reading this use case in a residential complex and discover the reasons.
There are more and more companies, parking lots, condominiums or toll stations that make use of an access control system. Generally because there are many vehicles that enter every day and it is necessary to organize and record all that chaos of information.
Which becomes an impossible task for one person alone.
In this article you will know how we deployed Alice Traffic to provide an automation, traceability and security solution in the Alameda condominium located in Barranquilla, Colombia.
¡Let’s get started!
What is an automated access control system with LPR?
But first of all… What is LPR?
Before talking about the access control system, we believe it is convenient to remember what the term LPR is.
L.P.R or License Plate Recognition is a video analytics system that is performed with the surveillance cameras to recognize the characters of a vehicle license platethrough text digitization technology called, OCR o Optical Character Recognition.
Having clarified what LPR is and the technology behind it, now let’s talk about vehicle access control system and the solution that we installed in this condominium.
What is Alice Traffic LPR?
Alice Traffic LPR is a solution for automated vehicle access control, which works with IP cameras.
This system perform a reading o recognition of vehicle’s plate, detects numbers of the license and then searches for them in a previously defined list, to determine whether or not to grant access to that vehicle.
That ‘s all?
yes, that easy
Surely you already feel that it is what you are looking for, but calm down, learn a little more about the benefits of the system and how it was implemented so that you can make an objective decision.
1. Security
Security is extremely important for all businesses and homes.
A condominium is a combination of these two, so it is absolutely essential to offer security to the owners or tenants.
Fortunately Alice Traffic has a Medium-High level of security.
Here are the reasons why:
It is a very complete system, easy to install and use.
On the other hand, if you want to increase security, you can combine it with Alice Guardian’s facial recognition technology.
Now, in addition to the traceability of the car, you can make sure that it is the owner or someone from his or her family who is entering.
With this, we can combine access control technology with Alice Guardian’ s intelligent video surveillance to centralize all site centralize everything on a single platform.
2. Traceability
The recording of information and its accessibility are key to increasing the security standard.
In terms of video surveillance and in case of a critical event, it is important to have the information at hand, to be able to make quick and specific searches.
Alice Traffic records each event with enriched information , which gives it a sense of organization and the possibility of filtering by different variables such as:
3. Access automation
As the purpose of the access control system access control is to grant access to an area, we could not area, we could not leave out this function.
While by far the most obvious of them all, it’s a must-have, a must-see.
Alice Traffic uses an Arduino or a TCP/IP relay for automatic and remote actuation of any type of access barrier.
Vehicle access control in Alameda condominium
Now that we know more about access control systems Let’s talk about the place where we installed this solution and understand what was the need of the site.
This condominium located in the north of Barranquilla, Colombia has 2 parking spaces and more than 250 vehicles among its owners.
They originally used an RFID access RFID access control system which worked very well… At the beginning!
If RFID sounds familiar to you but you don’t remember what it is, a picture is worth a thousand words:
Card access control.
The problem with this card-based solution is that all the time the owners began to forget and misplace their access cards very frequently,and so they had to update it.
Requirements of the new vehicle access control system
The condominium needed a new system that would provide the following characteristics:
Access Control Solution presented
The core business of the condominiums revolves around their tenants and that they can develop their lives with all the amenities offered by the facilities.
In terms of security, we are clear about the needs of this industry:
Quick and easy access for tenants, providing convenience for the manager and operator.
Watch him in action.
We made the system required by the Alameda residential complex a standard and applied it at Alice Traffic LPR to achieve the required level of security.
In a nutshell, Alice it’s exactly what they needed.
This is how we did it:
Alice LPR Access Control Solution Architecture
These are exactly the equipment with which we deployed the Alice Traffic solution:
This image explains in detail the basic operation and deployment of this solution:
In the following video we show you how we implemented the access control solution in the parking lot of the complex.
Conclusion
The ease of organization the automation and traceability that your condominium, parking lot or company needs are part of the standard of Alice Traffic LPR.
We develop solutions that deliver to the client what their core business requires, not as an added value or as an additional service.
But as fixed features of Alice Traffic LPR.
I hope this article has taught you many new things and thoughts about the security and practicality of today’s access control systems.
