Automated license plate recognition
Improving mobility
The agency is gradually rolling out automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) to facilitate parking management and to improve mobility in Montréal.
This project is part of the agency’s initiative to update its monitoring strategy. ALPR technology uses cameras and GPS so that agents can read license plates and check whether vehicles are in violation of regulations at a specific place and time, while maintaining data anonymity.
ALPR will serve as a decision aid enabling agents to more efficiently check compliance with regulations that are difficult to monitor without technological support, such as in time-limited spaces and resident-only on-street parking zones.
Smart parking management for equitable street sharing
The agency is gradually rolling out automated licence plate recognition (ALPR) to facilitate parking management and to improve mobility in Montréal.
This project is part of the agency’s initiative to update its monitoring strategy. ALPR technology uses cameras and GPS so that agents can read license plates and check whether vehicles are in violation of regulations at a specific place and time, while maintaining data anonymity.
ALPR will serve as a decision aid enabling agents to more efficiently check compliance with regulations that are difficult to monitor without technological support, such as in time-limited spaces and resident-only on-street parking zones.
We care about your privacy
As a responsible organization, the agency makes security and privacy a priority, and processes all data collected in accordance with the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (CQLR, c. A-2.1), to which it is subject.
Cameras will take a photograph of the license plate on the back of a vehicle and convert it into data. The data will then allow us to determine whether the vehicle is in violation, at that specific place and time, using geolocation. Also note that no personal data are associated with the license plate.
Moreover, if the system detects the presence of individuals, the photo will automatically be blurred so that no one is identifiable.