Smarter parking guidance powered by AI vision
Highlight Parking’s Optical Bay Monitoring system uses advanced camera-based technology and intelligent software to detect bay occupancy in real time, helping drivers find available spaces quickly and helping operators manage their car parks more efficiently.
By replacing guesswork with live visibility, Optical Bay Monitoring reduces circulation time, improves the customer experience, and delivers valuable operational data that can be used to optimise traffic flow, utilisation and revenue.
How it works
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Camera monitoring
Cameras positioned above parking rows monitor multiple bays simultaneously, detecting whether a vehicle is present. -
Real-time bay status
The system instantly determines whether a space is occupied or vacant. VMS signage helps guide drivers to free areas/floors of the car park. -
LED guidance lights
Super-bright LED clusters above each bay display availability, allowing drivers to see free spaces from a distance. -
Colour-coded zones
LED indicators can be colour-coded for specific areas such as:-
disabled parking
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parent and child bays
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EV charging spaces
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reserved or permit areas
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Back-office integration
All data is transmitted to the Highlight Back-Office system, enabling operators to monitor the car park in real time and generate historical reports.
Key benefits
Improve the driver experience
Help motorists find available spaces faster, reducing frustration, queueing and unnecessary circulation within the car park.
Increase operational efficiency
Give operators a live view of occupancy levels, usage patterns and pressure points across the site.
Reduce congestion and emissions
By cutting the time spent searching for a space, Optical Bay Monitoring helps reduce internal traffic build-up and vehicle emissions.
Maximise car park performance
Live and historical data enables better decision-making around layout, usage trends, demand peaks and future planning.
Flexible for a range of environments
Suitable for multi-storey car parks, airports, retail destinations, hospitals, universities, commercial sites and mixed-use developments.
Benefits for operators
Improve the parking experience
Drivers can quickly see where spaces are available, reducing circulation and frustration.
Full Data Oversite
React to live and historical reporting to identify all areas of the car park, from full to underutilised, EV to parent, across a section, floor, any date and time.
Increase space utilisation
Better visibility of available spaces ensures the car park operates closer to full capacity.
Reduce congestion and emissions
Drivers spend less time searching for parking spaces, lowering vehicle emissions and traffic within the car park.
Increase revenue
Improved parking turnover and utilisation can significantly increase car park revenue.
Enhance site image
Modern parking guidance systems enhance the perception of quality and professionalism at your facility.
Benefits
Customer friendly
Easy to find a space reducing customer stress as well as reducing emissions, thus encouraging repeat visits
Improved image
Increases the prestige of your venue, attracting customers from other car parks
Improved efficiency
Increases bay occupancy, ensuring full space utilisation while monitoring parked vehicles
Live monitoring & reporting
Shows live updates and produces historical data and analysis via your back-office system
Back-office system
System is linked to the back-office infrastructure which can be local or cloud based, with remote monitoring
Increases revenue
Our installations have shown to deliver increases in revenues and profits for car parking operators of more than 6%
Highlight support
Remote, telephone or email support from our dedicated team with on-site support if required
Tailored to you
Totally scalable for your requirements with customised back-office software to suit your needs
Testimonials
"We have worked with Highlight for a number of years and installed their systems in all our multi-storey car parks that we operate on behalf of Heathrow Airport. Their products are innovative, very reliable, highly accurate and are aesthetically pleasing. Furthermore, they offer first class support and maintenance. We are very happy with the all round services they provide."
Lee Goodes, UK Area Manager, APCOA Parking
"Highlight Parking were able to upgrade our car park counting system which was not operating correctly. Their team designed and installed a bespoke system to work with our existing display signs and monitored and honed the counts until they were accurate. We are extremely pleased with the system and will be using Highlight to expand the counting onto other areas of our estate in the near future."
Robert Cox, Senior Operations Manager, UWE Bristol
“The S.A.F.E. system was a guaranteed investment for us. We did of course have a fire alarm system in the car park but, S.A.F.E. provides a far quicker response; we timed it at between seven and eight seconds compared to 12 minutes for our existing system.”
Richard Carney, Project Manager, Severn Trent
“Highlight is a very pro-active and innovative company, who have refined both their back office control package to include bespoke requirements from ourselves on several occasions, as well as software updates to the main systems."
John Buckmaster, Director Office Services, Fluor Ltd
"We were so impressed with the original system in our MSCP "A" with the ease of parking for customers and the extra income it generated through higher occupancy levels, that we had no hesitation in ordering it for our new MSCP “B”."
Bentalls Centre, Kingston-Upon-Thames
"We have worked with Highlight for a number of years and installed their systems in all our multi-storey car parks that we operate on behalf of Heathrow Airport. Their products are innovative, very reliable, highly accurate and are aesthetically pleasing. Furthermore, they offer first class support and maintenance. We are very happy with the all round services they provide."
Lee Goodes, UK Area Manager, APCOA Parking
"Highlight Parking were able to upgrade our car park counting system which was not operating correctly. Their team designed and installed a bespoke system to work with our existing display signs and monitored and honed the counts until they were accurate. We are extremely pleased with the system and will be using Highlight to expand the counting onto other areas of our estate in the near future."
Robert Cox, Senior Operations Manager, UWE Bristol
“The S.A.F.E. system was a guaranteed investment for us. We did of course have a fire alarm system in the car park but, S.A.F.E. provides a far quicker response; we timed it at between seven and eight seconds compared to 12 minutes for our existing system.”
Richard Carney, Project Manager, Severn Trent
“Highlight is a very pro-active and innovative company, who have refined both their back office control package to include bespoke requirements from ourselves on several occasions, as well as software updates to the main systems."
John Buckmaster, Director Office Services, Fluor Ltd