LPR Technology at IU Bloomington
IU Bloomington Parking Operations will continue testing License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. Please be sure that your vehicle has a license plate facing the driving lane.
IU Bloomington Parking Operations will continue testing License Plate Recognition (LPR) technology. Please be sure that your vehicle has a license plate facing the driving lane.
License Plate Recognition (LPR) is a virtual permit system that associates your license plate to your parking permit. In future phases of our LPR system, your license plate will be your virtual permit! LPR cameras work much like a supermarket scanner but it uses your vehicle’s license plate number in place of a barcode. The license plate is captured by cameras mounted on enforcement vehicles or inside parking garages. When read, the numbers of your plate are automatically referenced against the parking database to verify proper parking privileges for the parking location.
The bottom line is that this technology is designed to improve our efficiency and your experience with us.
With LPR, it is automatic!
The impact to your day-to-day parking experience will be minimal. You will continue to display your valid parking permit in your vehicle during the evaluation period and park in the same areas as allowed by that permit.
To ensure we collect enough results during the evaluation period we are asking all permit holders to do the following:
Secondary permits such as the service vehicle (SV) and reserved (R) should be displayed as usual. Current parking rules for use of secondary permits will not change. Protocol for visitors displaying a visitor permit or parking in designated visitor locations will not change.