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Tauranga City Council, NZ new license plate recognition system to enforce free parking trial limits

Tauranga City Council, NZ license plate recognition system

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Tauranga City Council started using a new license plate recognition (LPR) system to enforce free-parking time limits in its city centre. The LPR system is a set of high-resolution cameras mounting onto a roving vehicle which captures the license plate details and GPS coordinates of parked cars. The Council deployed the new LPR system in response to drivers abusing the two-hour free-parking trial by shuffling around free parking spaces instead of moving to a paid parking area.

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Parking monitoring gets technology boost

A new licence plate recognition system (LPR) will be tested next week and then will start being used to enforce the free-parking time limits in the Tauranga city centre. The Licence Plate Recognition (LPR) system is a set of high-resolution cameras mounted onto a roving vehicle. The cameras capture licence plates and GPS location details of parked cars. LPR will give the council accurate information about parking occupancy, which will be used to help assess how the free parking trial...

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