The City of
Fredericton installed LPR (License Plate Reader) cameras, which work on motion, to count
vehicles, and capture photos of vehicle plate numbers and models, which is
transmitted into data (and database) using edge computing. This dataset lists the permit holder information including: permit holder ID, Permit ID, Lot Zone, Hashed License Plate Number, Issued date, Expiry date.
Some possible use
cases for the data being considered are:
1. Real-time garage occupancy (# of vehicles) / parking
availability.
2. Permit
usage- Increase permit sales, flip over to pay-by-plate plus enable the city to
estimate permit sales and oversell to increase revenues.
3.
Enforcement- when the new pay machines go in that are pay-by-plate, we can find
when vehicles enter and don't pay and optimize enforcement to be reactive
versus ad-hoc