Parking provider permit data is saved to Security Center permit entities. You can use one permit
entity to store all permit data, or use a separate permit entity for each parking provider.
You must configure the properties (attributes, delimiters, and so on) of the permit entity
so that the data can be parsed by Security Center
and sent to Genetec
Patroller™.
What you should know
You can also merge regular
Security Center
static permits with the Pay-by-Plate Sync’s dynamic permits. This allows you to enforce
both permit types by selecting only one permit in
Genetec
Patroller™. To merge static and dynamic permits, the
delimiters do not need to match, however, the permits must have the same number of
attributes (not necessarily in the same order).
NOTE: This procedure describes only the
information required to use permits as containers for parking providers’ permit
data.
For more information on how to configure permits in Security Center, see Creating parking permits.
Procedure
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Configure the permit’s properties as follows:
- Path
- The permit’s source file must be located on a drive that is
accessible by the ALPR Manager and by the Pay-by-Plate
Sync plugin role.
NOTE: If
your system is configured for failover, make sure that permit
source files are located on a drive that is accessible by all
potential failover servers, and that those servers have both
read and write permissions to the drive.
- Use delimiters
- Turn this ON, and use any type of delimiter
supported by Security Center.
- Attributes
- You must have the attributes Category, PlateState, PlateNumber,
and PermitID in the same order for static permits and in any
order for dynamic permits. If you have any custom attributes, you
can add them after the mandatory attributes are configured. The
maximum number of custom attributes for a static permit is five. You
can also keep the EffectiveDate and ExpiryDate
attributes. If the plugin finds this data in the permit, it will be
supported.
If you are using the
EffectiveDate and
ExpiryDate attributes, note the following:
- These two attributes must always be used together.
- Ensure that the provider you are using supports these
fields.
- We recommend that you use a date time formatter that
specifies Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time format
such as: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ssZ. Note that
the Z at the end of the formatter indicates that
the time is in UTC and will therefore be correctly
transformed to local time by Patroller.
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Click Apply.
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In the Advanced tab, turn on Enable transfer
on modification.
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Click Apply.
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Configure which permits are available to be selected in Genetec
Patroller™:
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Go to ALPR > Roles and
units.
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Select the ALPR Manager you want to configure.
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Go to Properties > File
association.
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If you are merging static permits with Pay-by-Plate
Sync dynamic permits, you can
clear those static permits from the list. They don’t need to be
displayed separately in Genetec
Patroller™.
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If you are using permits with permit restrictions applied to them,
select those permits to make sure they are downloaded in Genetec
Patroller™.
For more information on how permit restrictions work,
see Creating permit restrictions.
NOTE: Live Infraction Validation does not take any active permit
restrictions into consideration. Instead, it only verifies if a
valid license plate is found on a permit list. Any time-based
validity properties applied to the permit via a permit restriction
are ignored.
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Click Apply.
Results
The
Security Center permits are configured
to receive permit data from the parking provider.