Smart Parking Systems by Parking BOXX

AI LPR Cameras & Parking Systems

August 1, 2025

Revolutionizing Parking Management with Parking BOXX’s On-Prem AI: License Plate Recognition

Parking BOXX, a trusted name in parking management with over 85 years of experience, offers advanced, privacy-preserving solutions. By integrating AI-powered cameras for on-premises License Plate Recognition (LPR), Parking BOXX offers a fully local, robust system that seamlessly connects with its barrier gates and controllers. This article explores the deployment of LPR, its practical applications, and the potential for privacy-first face recognition, all tailored to enhance efficiency and security for Parking BOXX customers.


Applications for Parking BOXX Customers

Parking BOXX’s LPR integration offers versatile, customer-focused applications:

  • Hands-Free Gate Entry: Gates automatically open for allow-listed plates, streamlining access for employees, residents, or VIPs.
  • Hands-Free Ticketed Exit: for payment made online or at a walk-up payment kiosk
  • Investigations and Alerts: Operators can search footage by plate, with real-time notifications or webhooks triggered for matches against allow/deny lists, enabling proactive security measures like flagging unauthorized vehicles.

These features, powered by the CloudEASE software, provide real-time analytics on space availability and usage, reducing wait times and operational costs.


AI-Powered License Plate Recognition: Precision Deployment

Parking BOXX’s LPR system leverages high-resolution AI cameras for real-time license plate capture and recognition, enabling hands-free gate entry, credential-less door access, and robust investigations. The system’s success hinges on precise deployment strategies:

  • Placement: Cameras are mounted 0.8-1.2 meters (2.5-4 feet) above the license plate’s vertical centerline to avoid steep vertical or horizontal angles, ensuring clear captures without distortion.
  • Distance: Plates are framed to occupy 15-25% of the image width at the read zone, with a 3× zoom to “tighten” the lane, optimizing recognition accuracy.
  • Lighting: Infrared (IR) illumination is directed at the plate plane to counter headlight glare. Rear-plate capture is prioritized at night, especially for vehicles with tinted windshields, to maintain reliability.
  • Lane Design: Each camera is dedicated to a single lane, with speed-calming measures like humps or stop bars to ensure vehicles slow down, enhancing capture reliability.

These parameters—combined with consistent illumination, clean plates, and appropriate shutter/IR exposure—ensure high accuracy. By limiting the capture zone to one lane and keeping plates centered with minimal skew, Parking BOXX’s LPR delivers dependable performance in diverse conditions, from busy airports to secure corporate campuses.


Privacy and Compliance: A Local-First Approach

Privacy is a cornerstone of Parking BOXX’s on-premises AI design. Unlike cloud-based systems, all LPR processing occurs locally on dedicated controllers, reducing latency, ensuring resilience during internet outages, and enhancing user privacy. No data is transmitted externally, aligning with regulations like GDPR and CCPA. Operators must verify local laws before enabling LPR or potential face recognition to ensure compliance, particularly in jurisdictions with strict surveillance rules.


The system supports encrypted communication between cameras, gates, and the CloudEASE Parking Management software. This setup secures sensitive data, such as plate information on the secure CloudEASE Management Platform. For customers, this means a privacy-preserving solution that doesn’t sacrifice functionality.


Exploring Face Recognition: A Privacy-Preserving Future

While Parking BOXX’s current systems focus on LPR, their modular architecture—already integrating AI cameras with gates and controllers—sets the stage for face recognition. This could enable multi-modal authentication, such as validating drivers for VIP access or detecting unauthorized users. To maintain their privacy-first ethos, face recognition must remain fully local. Several approaches could achieve this:

  • Homomorphic Encryption: Algorithms like HE_FaceNet process encrypted facial data locally, ensuring no raw images are exposed. This could integrate with EASE to trigger gate operations for recognized users.
  • Differential Privacy: Adding noise to facial datasets prevents individual identification, aligning with LPR’s anonymization capabilities. Bayesian GANs could generate privacy-protected tags for secure matching.
  • Randomized Feature Extraction: Techniques like random channel shuffling create anonymized facial representations, processed entirely on-prem to maintain low latency and high security.

These methods would leverage existing hardware, with API updates enabling cameras to handle both LPR and face recognition. For example, a recognized face could validate entry alongside a plate, providing redundancy for obscured plates. However, ethical considerations—such as consent and bias mitigation—must guide implementation.


Conclusion: Driving Smarter, Safer Parking

Parking BOXX’s on-prem LPR, with its precise deployment and privacy-focused design, sets a new standard for parking management. By integrating AI cameras with gates and controllers, it delivers seamless, secure operations for diverse facilities. Exploring local face recognition could further enhance functionality, offering multi-modal access control while upholding stringent privacy standards. With its proven expertise and adaptable EASE platform, Parking BOXX is well-positioned to lead the future of smart, privacy-preserving parking solutions.

Leveraging Smart Parking Technologies for Enhanced Safety and Efficiency in Urban Parking Systems

July 1, 2025
This is a subtitle for your new post

How Automated Parking Systems Reduce Operational Costs and Enhance Safety

June 2, 2025
Controlling costs while ensuring a safe environment for users
Parking Barrier Gate

The Best Parking Barrier Gates: How Do They Work?

By Parking BOXX • December 1, 2021
Parking solutions are anything that helps the traffic flow and security of a parking lot or garage. Barrier gates can work in a lot of different ways. This will depend on your parking area's needs and payment processes.Barrier gates, or parking gates, are a very common parking solution.

Corona Virus Activities

By Parking BOXX • March 19, 2020
"You can only control what you can control."

4 Steps to Parking Lot Design

By Parking BOXX • December 4, 2019
4 steps to parking lot design & parking lot layout. Review these steps to quickly prepare a layout to determine how many parking spaces will fit into your lot.

Parking Machine - Featured in "Private Eyes"

By Parking BOXX • May 1, 2019
At Parking BOXX, we get calls from all types of industries asking about our parking equipment: from retail, to university campuses, hospitals, and campgrounds. But we have to admit: it’s not every day we get a phone call from a hit television show asking to feature a parking machine , our parking payment machine in a murder mystery show. Much to our surprise, that’s exactly what happened when Private Eyes , Global’s hit television series slated to return come spring 2019, reached out. Now on its third season, the show follows the antics of Matt Shade and Angie Everett. He’s an ex-professional Hockey player, she’s a no-nonsense P.I. They join forces to solve mysteries every week with equal parts wit and humor. Filmed and set in Toronto, the show has a refreshing take on the city—it embraces its nooks and crannies, the glamour as much as the grit, which makes for a fun and authentic portrayal of this vibrant Canadian city. But to the more pressing question: why would the show, unless it’s building a state-of-the-art parking facility, contact us about parking equipment? As with any good mystery show, the puzzle is always solved by a leap in thought: something about the environment tips the detectives off, and through a series of mental maneuvers, they decipher who the culprit is, catch the bad guy, and restore justice. Viewers are left satisfied until a new mystery takes centre stage the following week. Season three, like the other two before it, will be rife with mysteries and suspense at every corner of Matt and Angie’s journey. As it turns out, Private Eyes will not be building the parking garage of our dreams anytime soon. Instead, this upcoming season, Parking BOXX’s very own parking machine will act as the key to one of its mysteries, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to see what the writers come up with. Stay tuned to catch us on the small screen.

Employee Massage Program

By Parking BOXX • February 1, 2019
At Parking BOXX, we expect a lot from our employees—it’s in our CORE values. To bring you the best services and support, we encourage our employees to carry out the following four value pillars: C ustomers, O rganization, R esults, and E xcellence, the —CORE in our CORE values. A company that expects a lot, however, must also give a lot. Far removed from the early models of productivity that looked at employees like machines, we know that to yield the best from our employees, we must provide services that will allow them to thrive personally and professionally. This is why we’re always thinking about ways to improve our work atmosphere [link to office art article], and this means thinking about the day-to-day experiences of employees at the office. Study after study has shown that prolonged periods of sitting causes harms to the body. It puts undue pressure on the neck, shoulders, and spine, results in back pain and conditions like carpal tunnel, all of which exacerbate one’s propensity for physiological and psychological malaises such as: increased blood pressure, stress, and anxiety. Not only does this stall productivity, it lowers morale and causes dissatisfaction at work. Since we are only as strong as our employees, we know that dissatisfaction hinders our ability to give you the best customer service in the industry. In seeking a way to remedy the imbalance caused by extended periods of sitting, we implemented the Employee Massage Program, in which our employees sign up for a massage during the workday. Why massage? The answer to this was easy. By releasing tension accumulated thanks to extended periods of sitting, massage helps alleviate both physiological and psychological stresses. As Matt, one of our employees put it, “Having a sedentary job, I feel like my muscles are joints are stiffening up throughout the day. When we get massages, even if they are only 20 minutes, it definitely gets rid of some aches. After the massage, I feel like I’m ready to get back to work. Happy employees make for productive workers. Implementing the massage program is a smart solution, creating a win-win situation for both our employees and customers. Unsurprisingly, we’ve received nothing but positive feedback from our employees. Praise of the stress-alleviating effects include: “Fantastic! I feel lighter, my arms are less heavy.” “I feel great. I don’t feel tired, I feel refreshed.” “I always have a good night’s sleep the day of the massage,” Implementing the program during the work day has also been one of its major successes. While other companies aim to fulfil the same goals by offering employees extensive health packages, a busy work schedule often causes people to forget or neglect to book a massage appointment. “I love that BOXX has a massage program offered during office hours. Due to my busy schedule both at work and at home, I don’t really have time for me. A massage time allows me to take care of myself and my health,” said one of our Sales Team members. At Parking BOXX, we’re delighted with the results of our massage program: through it, we fulfil our CORE values mission so that our employees may continue to offer the industry’s best customer service!

Diabetes Donation Drive

By Parking BOXX • October 27, 2018
At Parking BOXX we care about people. We care about providing you with the best and most responsive Support that the parking industry has to offer. We care about our employees, about fostering professional and personal growth in order to bring our best selves forward. But we don’t stop there. We can’t, in fact, because we know that surrounding each member of our Team are groups of people that help the personal growth process in ways that we can’t. This is why we like to get involved with causes that affect our community—particularly those that affect our Team members’ friends and families. This quarter, the Team at Parking BOXX culled their efforts to raise funds for Diabetes Canada by donating clothing, accessories, and household items. The collection drive was spearheaded by Shannon, our Social Media and Marketing Specialist who is also our charity-drive organizing superstar. She took the time to educate the Team, set up reminders at company offices, and motivated everyone to participate. Behind this goal was the desire to support a cause that affected various members of our Team. “A couple of co-workers have family and friends that have diabetes,” she said, “My best friend also has diabetes. Diabetes is one of those illnesses that create radical changes to your life. And it doesn’t just affect the person who has it. It affects the whole family.” According to Diabetes Canada, 5.7 million Canadians over the age of twenty are affected by diabetes. Along with the immediate effects of the illness, like having to regulate one’s diet and glucose levels, having diabetes comes with other lifestyle changes. Thirty percent of people with diabetes, for example, experience depressive symptoms. In support of the cause, our Team donated everything from clothes, pots and pans, jewelry and hats. Diabetes Canada partners up with Value Village to sell these donations and raise money for various diabetes-related causes. Part of the money goes towards funding diabetes research in Canada, which has always been exceptional. After all, insulin, the protein associated with diabetes, was first discovered by Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best in Toronto. Part of the proceeds also go towards funding D-camps— camps tailored for kids with type 1 diabetes. Thanks to Shannon’s organizational skills, our Team rounded up enough items to fill seven large boxes —boxes big enough fit our parking kiosks! She made the giving process convenient, which often deters people from donating altogether. As one of our employees put it, “The initiative was fantastic. I have lots of clothes and I was very eager to bring them in to the office and have them taken. This is a very easy way to be a charitable good person”. Organizing these types of charitable drives are and easy way to bring the Team together while making valuable and important contributions to the community. We congratulate Shannon and our Team for making this drive such a success and look forward to the next one.

5 Questions You'll Have When Purchasing Parking Pay Stations

By Parking BOXX • October 24, 2018
Learn more about factors to consider for a parking pay station purchase

Parking Control Equipment

By Parking BOXX • June 26, 2018
Parking control equipment allows parking lot and garage owners and managers to restrict access to their lot as well as generate revenue. Parking control systems improve security, restrict vehicle access to specified areas, track who entered these specific areas, when they enter and exit, allow passback restrictions to be set, generate revenue, and provide reporting capabilities. When parking gate systems are utilized, this allows the system to control the entry and exit lanes of the facility or lot. Specific entrances may permit only proximity or long range card holders to enter. Public entrances may incorporate such readers as well as ticket printing or pre-paid entry. For persons receiving tickets upon entry, parking payments may be made at walk-up Pay Stations or upon exiting the lot. Exit lanes may incorporate Exit Stations with credit/debit card only payments, cash and credit/debit payment or Cashier Stations. Importantly, barrier gates secure all laneways to ensure that only valid card or credential holders or paid ticket holders are granted permission to leave as well as to prevent unauthorized ingress or egress. In addition to the above mentioned lane way equipment and payment terminals, Validation and Hotel Guest Check in Terminals may be incorporated to enhance the automated parking control system.
Show More