ANPR car park riddle
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Hi folks,
Idle interest only, nobody has got a ticket, not even my friend. Anyhoo, this weekend I enjoyed a small music event at Porlock Weir. The car park there has recently been taken over by Horizon parking. Utterly extortionate rates. There’s an ANPR camera on one entrance- technically it’s one way, so you exit over the other side.
You pay when you leave, entering your reg brings up the time you’re there. However, try as I might, I couldn’t find an exit camera!
Is this just smoke and mirrors to scare people into paying? To my mind, you could just enter, leave car for a bit, pay for an hour and you’re done.
Not that I would obvio!
Idle interest only, nobody has got a ticket, not even my friend. Anyhoo, this weekend I enjoyed a small music event at Porlock Weir. The car park there has recently been taken over by Horizon parking. Utterly extortionate rates. There’s an ANPR camera on one entrance- technically it’s one way, so you exit over the other side.
You pay when you leave, entering your reg brings up the time you’re there. However, try as I might, I couldn’t find an exit camera!
Is this just smoke and mirrors to scare people into paying? To my mind, you could just enter, leave car for a bit, pay for an hour and you’re done.
Not that I would obvio!
Shirley this is just a cheap charlie way of Horizon doing business. The system resolves it by using the ANPR camera when you enter to record your reg. You pay before exit, so it knows your entry time and intended time of exit and presumes you leave soon after exit. Any people left over on the system as entering and not paying, haven't paid and can be sent their invoices,. Anyone who may have entered the car park to drop off/found the car park too busy and left immediately can be sent a scam invoice to pay and many people will pay for fear of "harming their credit rating".....
I may be misinterpreting your first post where you say 'technically one way' and 'exit the other side'.
Can that camera you've photographed pick up traffic coming and going? ANPR cameras can detect with direction traffic is moving from a single camera so if that camera can see both entrance and exit, that's the answer.
If it cant, I'm out of guesses!
Can that camera you've photographed pick up traffic coming and going? ANPR cameras can detect with direction traffic is moving from a single camera so if that camera can see both entrance and exit, that's the answer.
If it cant, I'm out of guesses!
InvisibleSpider said:
I may be misinterpreting your first post where you say 'technically one way' and 'exit the other side'.
Can that camera you've photographed pick up traffic coming and going? ANPR cameras can detect with direction traffic is moving from a single camera so if that camera can see both entrance and exit, that's the answer.
If it cant, I'm out of guesses!
Sorry, no….there is a camera on entrance only! The exit is completely separateCan that camera you've photographed pick up traffic coming and going? ANPR cameras can detect with direction traffic is moving from a single camera so if that camera can see both entrance and exit, that's the answer.
If it cant, I'm out of guesses!
Super Sonic said:
Camera records entry time, you pay when you leave, so leaving time is assumed to be when you pay.
I think the point is, if you enter the car park, your number is read, you then drive around the car park but there are no spaces left, so you leave by the unmonitored exit, what happens next?the tribester said:
I think the point is, if you enter the car park, your number is read, you then drive around the car park but there are no spaces left, so you leave by the unmonitored exit, what happens next?
Oh I see, so the parking company wouldn't know what time you left! Ops q makes sense now!I wonder if you have to get a ticket from the pay machine to open the exit gate? Or does the gate open wether you've paid or not?
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