About permits - Security Center 5.9

Security Center Administrator Guide 5.9

Applies to
Security Center 5.9
Last updated
2022-10-25
Content type
Guides > Administrator guides
Language
English
Product
Security Center
Version
5.9

A permit is a type of entity that defines a single parking permit holder list. Each permit holder is characterized by a category (permit zone), a license plate number, a license issuing state, and optionally, a permit validity range (effective date and expiry date). Permits are used in both city and university parking enforcement.

The permit entity belongs to a family of methods used by AutoVu™ to identify vehicles of interest, called hit rules. Other types of hit rules include hotlist, overtime, and permit restriction. When a plate read matches a hit rule, it is called a hit. When a read fails to match any permit loaded in the Genetec Patroller™, it generates a permit hit.

Permits in City Parking Enforcement

In City Parking Enforcement, you create the permit list and configure its basic properties, but you do not need to define a parking lot or permit restriction. It is the city or municipality that decides when and where the permit is applicable. The patrol vehicle operator chooses which permit to enforce in Genetec Patroller™ based on the parking rule signs displays on the street.

Permits in University Parking Enforcement

In University Parking Enforcement, you create and configure a permit list the same way you would in City Parking Enforcement, but you also need to assign permit restrictions and parking lots to create an enforcement “zone” that is downloaded to Genetec Patroller™. This additional configuration is needed because the patrol vehicle is monitoring individual parking lots, not city streets with specific regulations already in place.

In this example, you use a permit restriction to specify different time limits for different permit holders.

Patrol vehicle does a pass through the lot on Monday at 9:22 . Red car has Permit A, for faculty. Can park weekdays, from 8:00 to :00. 18 Blue car has Permit B, for students. Can park weekdays, from 10:00 to :00 16 . Brown car belongs to a student, but he does not have a permit to park. Violation No violation Violation

Shared permits

A permit list includes a field called Permit ID, which allows different vehicles to share the same permit by having the same Permit ID value in the permit list’s source file. For example, a car pool permit could be shared between several vehicles. Each member of the car pool takes a turn driving the other members to work or school, therefore each member needs to share the same permit to park.

However, the permit still applies to one vehicle at a time. For example, if all four members of the car pool decide to take their own vehicles one day, they can’t all use that car pool permit to park at the same time. Genetec Patroller™ allows one vehicle with the car pool permit to park (the first license plate detected), but will raise a Shared permit hit for every other vehicle seen with the same permit.

NOTE: For information on how shared permits work in AutoVu™ Free-Flow installations, see About shared permits in AutoVu™ Free-Flow.