Base licence on the camera
Every camera runs the Vicodis Visitor Counter base licence.
Vicodis Parking: counting vehicles and free spaces
Vicodis Parking is the car park application of Vicodis Vehicle. Counting lines at the entrance and the exit count cars entering and leaving, report each vehicle class separately and derive the number of free spaces — on the camera, without a server.
- A car counting system for car parks, yards and garages
- Vehicle classes counted separately, not as one total
- Free spaces display with a configurable threshold
Free spaces
37
of 180 spaces
143 vehicles inside180
Cars131Trucks7Buses5
Counting
Entrance and exit lines
How it counts
Counting lines at the entrance and the exit
Vicodis Parking counts exclusively with counting lines that you draw in AXIS Object Analytics across the entrance and the exit. Every vehicle crossing the entry line is booked as an arrival, every vehicle crossing the exit line as a departure.
If both lanes are in view, one camera covers both lines. Where the entrance and the exit are far apart, each gets its own camera and Vicodis Zone combines them into one car park figure.
arrivaldeparturecounting line
Vehicle classes
Vehicle classes counted separately
AXIS Object Analytics tells the vehicle classes apart, and Vicodis keeps them apart. Vehicle class counting means you see what drove in, not just how many.
CarsPassenger cars
TrucksLorries and goods vehicles
BusesCoaches and city buses
Two-wheelersMotorbikes and bicycles
Other vehiclesVehicles without a clear class
Each class has its own figures in the vehicle view of the dashboard. Two-wheelers are counted, but by default they do not take up a parking space.
Free spaces
Deriving the number of free spaces from the count
Parking occupancy counting without a sensor per bay: the free space figure comes straight from the count at the gates.
Capacity minus vehicles inside equals free spaces.
You enter the number of spaces once. Arrivals minus departures gives the vehicles currently inside, and the difference to the capacity is the free space figure.
Because cars stay overnight, the daily zero reset used in buildings is normally switched off in a car park. If the figure ever drifts, you set the number of vehicles inside to the value you counted, and the free spaces follow at once.
Main car park
Capacity180
Vehicles inside143
Free spaces37
Threshold and display
Freely configurable capacity threshold and display output
The threshold at which the signal changes is freely configurable, just as it is for buildings. The free spaces display runs full screen in any browser — on a monitor at the entrance or a screen in the ticket hall.
The same state can switch a camera output, an Axis siren and light or an HTTP device such as a relay, and a live endpoint delivers the figure to digital signage.
Spaces free37 free
Almost fullbelow your threshold
Fullno free spaces
Scope
What the system does not do
Vicodis Parking counts occupancy. It is not a guidance system that leads drivers to an individual bay — that needs a sensor above every space and is a different kind of product. We would rather say so up front.
- No detection of individual spaces. Counting happens only at the entrance and the exit.
- No guidance to a specific bay. The display shows how many spaces are free, not where.
- No licence plate capture. Vehicles are counted, never identified.
- No images leave the camera. Only counts are stored and exported.
Remote car park · example setup
Countingon the camera, offline
CabinetPoE switch + LTE router
Remote accessthrough your VPN
Live figurepushed every 30 s
Remote sites
Connecting a remote car park over LTE
Many car parks have power but no network. Counting does not need one: the camera counts and stores everything locally. To read the figures from your office, an LTE router in the cabinet connects the camera to your network, typically through a VPN.
Vicodis can also push the live figure to a receiver on your own web server every 30 seconds, so a website or a sign elsewhere shows the free spaces without anyone reaching into the car park network.
Licensing
Add-on licence
Parking runs on the Vicodis Vehicle add-on licence, paid once and bound to the camera. The same licence also covers traffic counting on streets. All figures are on prices for Vicodis.
Vicodis Vehicle on top
The Vehicle add-on unlocks vehicle classes, the vehicle view and the free spaces figure — for car parks and for traffic.
No running fees
No subscription and no cloud charges. See how it is used in practice in car park occupancy counting.
FAQ
Questions about Vicodis Parking
01
Does Vicodis Parking detect individual free spaces?
No. Vicodis Parking counts vehicles at the entrance and the exit and calculates the free spaces from the difference to the capacity. It does not watch individual bays and cannot guide a driver to a specific space. Sites that need bay-level guidance need a sensor per space, which is a different kind of system.
02
Are licence plates recorded?
No. The camera classifies each vehicle as a car, truck, bus, two-wheeler or other vehicle and counts it when it crosses a line, but it never reads or stores a licence plate. No images leave the camera. The figures that remain are counts per class and time interval, nothing more.
03
Can one camera cover the entrance and the exit?
Yes, if both lanes are in the camera’s field of view. You then draw one counting line for arrivals and one for departures in the same image. Where the entrance and the exit are far apart, each gets its own camera, and Vicodis Zone combines them into one car park figure.
04
What happens if the count drifts over time?
You correct it by hand. Missed or doubled detections, maintenance work or vehicles parked before installation can make the figure drift slightly over weeks. In the dashboard you set the number of vehicles currently inside to the value you counted, and the free spaces follow immediately. Counted arrivals and departures stay unchanged.
05
Does the car park need an internet connection?
No. Counting, storage and the free spaces display all run on the camera and in the local network. An internet or LTE connection is only needed if you want to read the figures from elsewhere or show them on a website, and even then only counts are sent, never images.
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