Operational workflow

How PRKCAR works
from sensors to citations

Hardware stationed at curb or lane level streams occupancy—and when enabled, onboard diagnostics such as heartbeat cadence plus battery level and RSSI summaries—into PRKCAR cloud services. Operators stay aligned through the PRKCAR Manager mobile shell (Dashboard • Spaces • Violations • DNP • Settings).

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Operational spine

Six-stage loop powering PRKCAR in the field

The loop mirrors telemetry observed in pilots—stretch or collapse stages based on municipality, multifamily, or parking-operator programs.

1
Configure sites & stalls

Add properties such as Fruitdale-equivalent footprints, delineate street lanes versus garages, tune pricing scaffolding, alert routing, and which enforcement lanes your team staffs.

2
Deploy smart infrastructure

Install per-space telemetry that distinguishes occupied versus vacant stalls and monitors device vitality through periodic heartbeats mirrored in the Spaces experience.

3
Stream live occupancy & KPIs

Cloud ingestion normalizes events so Dashboard tiles can summarize violations, occupancy, trend hints, urgency lanes, permit shortcuts, low-battery chatter, or DNP activity depending on rollout scope.

4
Patrol with DNP intelligence

Field teams leap between manual plate entry or scan affordances with instant lookups, prioritized hits, search history snapshots, and quick ties back to offending stalls.

5
Close violation cases with evidence

PRKCAR timelines compare dwell clocks with rule packs, layering dual-imagery or staged capture queues so reviewers escalate notices, annotate notes, or park cases for QA.

6
Operationalize alerts & summaries

Settings toggles steer which pushes fire for occupancy swings, overstays, DNP clashes, analytics digests—or team permissions—reflecting governance your portfolio actually uses.

Where it shows up inside Manager

Tabs echo the comps you validated—purpose-built canvases grounded in telemetry instead of spreadsheets.

Dashboard

Executives skim KPIs plus alerts surfaced as cards or feeds while auto-refresh keeps mission-control parity with the lot edge.

Spaces

Supervisors troubleshoot sessions, correlate sensor vitality, or hand off hotspots before drivers feel friction.

Violations

Review queues stack overstays needing imagery, SLA timers for officers, plus filters distinguishing street choreography from structured garages.

DNP

Watchlisted plates stay synchronized with patrol beats through search and scan combos plus auditable histories.

Settings

Operational toggles—from alert preferences to delegated permissions—mirror how each district governs curb reality.

See the stack on your pavement

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