How are you monitoring who comes and goes to your business car park and what visitors arrive in vehicles and on foot? Sure, for small-scale operations, a single barrier arm and one security guard can be exactly what you need. But for larger businesses or those with deliveries coming and going or vast amounts of visitors 24/7, then the cracks will start to appear and before you know it, there’ll be queues at peak times, tailgating to get under barriers, unauthorised vehicles no one notices, and incidents that become nearly impossible to track.
The answer is an automated vehicle access system. If you’re not convinced this is right, we have a few reasons that might change your mind.
You Have A High Volume of Vehicles To Check
If you have a reasonably busy premises, then manually checking each vehicle that arrives creates bottlenecks you can do without. This is even more of an issue if traffic is moving at speed or you need them off a busy road so they don’t cause congestion. And really, security guards can’t check every single registration plate and verify them at the point of entry. That takes time and effort. alpr systems can do this fast and at scale, meaning they instantly capture any vehicles that move through the car park with ease.
People Are Tailgating Under Barriers
We’ve all seen it, the barrier arm lifts for one car, and the car behind is suspiciously close and slips in before the arm drops. This means checks can’t be performed, or the cameras haven’t had time to register the plate.
If you have a restricted site, this is the last thing you need. You need a system that can capture these details automatically and give you a time-stamped log of every entry and exit as standard, regardless of how close the tailgater gets to the vehicle in front of it.
You Need a Reliable Record of Vehicle Movements
If an incident happens either with company-owned vehicles on or off-site, or with visitor or staff vehicles parking for the day, can you deliver the right information when requested? If the answer is no, then you need to update your management of vehicle access. You don’t want to start from nothing.
Let’s say one of your drivers is accused of causing an accident, but they insist they weren’t on the road in that vehicle at that time, but on site. If you have automatic vehicle access systems in place, you can track their movements and have time-stamped verification of where the driver and vehicle were at that time to verify activity.
Permit Management Is Giving You Admin Overheads
Physical permits, stickers, tickets, passes, etc, that get issued for parking all require staff to check them. Whether it’s to validate parking or if you have a patrol checking cars for the appropriate tickets and passes. This is time and money spent on this every single day. Plus, these things can get lost, stolen, forged and so on, and this creates even more admin headaches.
If you have automated vehicle access, you can remove most of these problems, and there’s no dispute over lost passes, etc., and no way to change passes to those who shouldn’t have access.
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