Both read plates. Then what?
“LPR” covers two very different things: a private system that runs your gate, and cameras that feed a shared vehicle-sighting network. For an HOA board or a facility owner, the difference is who ends up holding, and searching, your people's movements.
What the camera is for
Surveillance: sightings from many sites pool into a network that can be searched across locations.
Access: your gate checks a plate against your list, and opens or doesn't.
Where recognition runs
Typically in the vendor's cloud, footage and reads leave your property by design.
On-site, on a small computer at your gate. The decision never leaves your property.
Who can query the data
Depends on the network's sharing model, other members or agencies may search sightings of your residents' vehicles.
You. Access data is never pooled into a shared vehicle-sighting network, and never sold or shared.
Retention
Set by the network's policy.
Configurable per site, on your terms, with CCPA/GDPR deletion workflows, and a Privacy Mode that admits approved vehicles without storing any image or log.
Accountability
Varies by vendor.
Audit logs on every action, including a log entry whenever anyone views a record.
Four questions that separate the two.
- 1Where does plate recognition actually run, on-site or in your cloud?
- 2Is my site's data ever pooled, shared, or queryable by anyone outside my organization?
- 3Can I set retention myself, and is there a mode that stores nothing for approved vehicles?
- 4Is every view of a record logged, and can I export the audit trail?
Residents' plates are personal data, and boards answer to residents. A gate system should make entry effortless, not put the community's comings and goings into a database someone else controls.
Private by architecture, not by promise.
Send a few photos of your gate, we'll confirm compatibility and send a detailed quote, usually within 48 hours. Recognition runs on your site, and your data stays yours.
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- 1-year hardware warranty
- No gate replacement
- Compatibility answer in 48 hours