Vehicle Inspection Systems

One of our most popular system modules is the High Definition IP Digital Camera Module. It provides the comfort of knowing whether or not an alleged damage liability was incurred while the vehicle was in your care or better yet, not in your care. No more guess work, irate customers or time consuming case building. Here, a picture is worth a thousand words. (Return on Investment).

The idea of documenting the physical condition of a vehicle in order to identify the origin any damage has become an industry hit ever since we invented (U.S. Patent Issue #6630893) and brought this technology to market back in early 2002. After all, what’s more fun than scratching the slick surface of a departing accuser’s voice with a glossy image of Pixar damage technology ?

Shown above is one of our many camera lane configurations. It’s a typical garage entry lay-out, most suited for the valet operation, that includes a customer car, a reckless valet and our lane technology to identify the culprit as he attempts to negotiate the entry lane at 90mph. As the valet comes to a screeching halt just before the barrier gate, the valet will interact with the lane device to surrender identify and valet ticket number, information that will be tagged to the images and the license plate that is being collected in an almost instant rapid fire fashion. As you can already see, the valet has no chance to get away without plowing through the barrier gate – in which case you might review your HR department’s recruitment criteria, as there is currently no technology available to contain that level of rage.

Below is a red Porsche Carrera which is included with the purchase of any one of our lane configurations and if you believe that, click here (www.something.com) and we will provide you with a more suitable link to spend your time on. The tubular structure is our minimal rendition of a drive-thru lane set-up, which uses LPR (license plate recognition) to tag the vehicle passing thru at up to 75mph … well, 25mph if you are looking for sharp and not blurry images to go along with your plate. The software governing this process has a user interface that allows you (yes, you) to adjust the frame/second capture rate, to please your desire to end up with a few, many or lots of images per vehicle from every angle.

Reminiscent of the era when bands actually played on stage to sell their music, the truss lane design is for our more distinguished and mature clients who wish they would have become rock stars instead of gone into the parking business. It provides essentially the same functionality as the preceding tubular lane design, except that it is prettier and … a little more expensive, as we’ve gone from 60′ of tubing with 3 welds, to 180′ of tubing with 149 welds.

TunnelVision, as we have cleverly named this design, serves to keep weather outside for a more optimal image quality. It too contains all the guts and glory of the other systems and can function as a valet-stop-and-scan or a drive-thru device tagged by LPR. These are highly recommended for outdoor applications that have nothing but air between the vehicle and the clouds.

This visually rich image presentation will make even the crappiest little beater look like a show-car, which is a good place to start when you are about to demonstrate the ‘pre-existing damage’ concept to the customer. The round thumbnail portholes represent the 8-camera views, although 4-6 is more standard in the industry. Selecting one puts it on the big screen, so you can start hunting for that little door-ding the customer insists ‘could have only happened here’, because they just hand-washed the vehicle hours before in their own drive-way. The capture tools enables you to create a snap-shot of the damage so you can save it, e-mail it or turn it into a follow-up post-card for the customer via www.postcards.com.

If you like to look at lots of cars at a time, our visual valet mode allows you to do just that. The reason ? Well, you can easily determine how many of the last 100 vehicles are in your favorite color, or you might use it as a tool to identify a customer’s vehicle who lost their claim-check. It also works for revenue control. After all, what better way to audit the monthly parkers than see who got comp’t – right ?

Below are some of our client installations if you care to see how one of these systems may look in one of your parking lots or garages. We’ll be happy to paint it any color you want, as long as it’s blue or grey. No seriously, ANY color you like – but we reserve the right to remove our logos from the equipment if you go with pink or fucia.