GALVESTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The City of Galveston Police Department is using cutting edge pay by plate parking software. The parking enforcement system provided by gtechna has allowed Galveston to introduce an accurate and efficient means to enforce parking with little to no impact on the existing landscape of Galveston’s Seawall, a highly frequented tourist destination.
Galveston visitors over the years have parked for free. Paid parking was introduced on the Seawall in 2013 and, through some growing pains, was a success. With the risk of severe weather and the risk of defacing the seawall with meter technology, mobile phone payments (pay by phone) were considered. With this need for plate based enforcement, gtechna proposed a unique pay by plate enforcement solution which interfaces with a mobile parking application provided by Pay By Phone. All transactions are associated with the parker’s license plate which is then scanned for enforcement by a license plate recognition system.
“Galveston is one the only cities in North America with a vision to leverage enforcement in a manner that is both unique and creative to truly maximize the benefits and realize the full potential of this technology”, stated gtechna President and CEO, Michel Guay. “This includes time enforcement, paid parking rights, criminal investigation, permits, disaster preparedness and border security. It is truly a milestone for plate-based enforcement technology.”
Galveston police edition SUVs are fully equipped with license plate recognition (LPR) cameras and a laptop running gtechna’s license plate recognition software scanning up to 3 plates a second. “With the ticketing component embedded in the LPR software, we are issuing a ticket within seconds of getting a hit; the ticketing and LPR cross reference plate data seamlessly since they are one in the same system”, commented Officer Sean Migues.
“The license plate recognition (LPR) software can run on multiple platforms including tablets or laptops and is a part of the same software used for eticketing on Android™ or Windows operating systems,” commented Mike Bourre, Vice-President of Sales and marketing. “All data captured with LPR is attached to the ticket record and can be transferred in real-time and managed using a cloud based infrastructure or installed locally on servers.”
More info on pay by plate: ecitations.gtechna.com/pay-by-plate
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gtechna is recognized as a North American innovator in parking solutions for the entire lifecycle of parking management. For over 20 years, gtechna has built an impeccable track record with customers like Pittsburgh, PA, Washington D.C., Baltimore, MD and internationally with partnerships in Australia and Latin America. gtechna is a certified Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner in the Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program (SEAP) which allows gtechna’s research and development teams to build real-world Android™ applications for government agencies using the latest mobile technologies on the market.
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