Managing parking in urban areas is one of the most concrete challenges for local governments. Between traffic, irregular parking and limited spaces, ensuring orderly mobility requires increasingly efficient tools.
In recent years, technology has introduced digital solutions capable of supporting control activities and improving parking management. Among these, one of the most popular tools is street control, used by local police to monitor parking and quickly detect violations.
What is street control and what is it for
Street control is a technology used by local police to monitor parking and vehicle movement through Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems.
Generally installed on service vehicles, it allows real-time detection of license plates of vehicles on the road and checks for traffic violations, insurance or inspection status.
This type of system allows municipalities to make land control more efficient and improve urban parking management.
How a street control system works
A street control system combines cameras, license plate recognition software and connection to institutional databases.
During the passage of the service vehicle:
- cameras capture images of vehicles on the road
- the software automatically identifies the license plate
- data are compared with different databases available to operators
This makes it possible to quickly check for irregularities, such as:
- parking-related infractions
- failure to inspect the vehicle
- absence of insurance coverage
- other reports in institutional databases.
Control thus becomes faster and allows operators to focus on the checks that are really needed.
Why municipalities use parking control systems
Digital parking control systems help municipalities manage parking spaces more effectively and ensure a higher turnover of available spaces.
Through technologies such as street control and parking management platforms, it is possible:
- Improve land monitoring
- optimize the work of local police
- Reduce irregularities in parking
- Collect useful data for organizing urban mobility.
In complex urban settings, these tools help make parking management more orderly and sustainable.
Among the technological solutions used for this type of activity is Levis, the street control platform developed by Oltrematica to support local police in parking monitoring and control activities.
Levis: the street control cloud solution developed by Oltrematica
Levis is a cloud platform designed to support law enforcement agencies in their territory control activities and management of parking-related infractions.
The system enables:
- Carry out georeferenced reading of license plates using ANPR technology
- Automatically verify vehicle data through ministerial databases
- Digitized management of infringement notices
- Constantly monitor the status of connections to external services.
One of the main features of Levis is that the system can also be used on smartphones and tablets, making operations more flexible for local police officers.
Digital parking management with BuyParking
Alongside parking control tools, parking management can benefit from dedicated digital solutions.
BuyParking, developed by Oltrematica, is a software platform designed for municipalities, companies and managers of public or private parking lots.
The platform enables centralized management:
- parking permits
- Reservation and purchase of parking spaces
- access to parking lots
- Integration with license plate reading systems.
This makes it possible to digitize the entire parking management process, improving the organization of spaces and simplifying the user experience.
Technology and urban mobility
Urban mobility management today requires technological tools capable of integrating control, data analysis and operational management.
Solutions such as Levis e BuyParking represent concrete examples of how digital technologies can support administrations and operators in day-to-day land management, helping to make parking control and organization more efficient.