Hospital Parking Management Solutions From iC2

The solution records the registration mark of every vehicle passing through, effectively counting every vehicle in and out. After parking up, drivers enter registration numbers into pay machines to obtain a confirmation. Before they leave, they enter the registration mark and are able to pay the right amount. They can then return to their vehicles and drive away, counted out by the parking management system.

Drivers can’t cheat by paying and then extending their stay because the system is set to raise a penalty charge notice (PCN) when a vehicle is detected to have overstayed. Similarly, the system issues a PCN when it detects that a vehicle has entered and exited without paying.

For monitoring drop off zones, disabled parking bays and areas which need to remain unobstructed, ANPR is combined with CCTV analytics. This enables these areas to be automatically monitored. When vehicles are detected overstaying in the drop off zones, PCNs can be raised for parking violations. When vehicles are present in areas that need to remain obstruction-free, alerts are sent to parking attendants to intervene.

For disabled bays, facial recognition technology helps to identify people abusing the Blue Badge scheme, enabling them to be challenged if they are cheating. There is a requirement for gates and barriers and they cease to be a source of parking or traffic congestion problems.

Managing staff car parking effectively and efficiently is also catered for by the system. Permanent and contract healthcare workers simply go online and register their vehicle details through the hospital trust’s parking management system portal.

The ANPR cameras work with the software and parking management machines to count staff vehicles in and out of their designated parking areas, leaving them free from charges and PCNs. Unauthorised vehicles in staff parking areas are detected and PCNs raised, or other action taken.