Access Control solutions are provided to manage and monitor the access of vehicles into a specific urban area, on a permanent basis or during specific dates, times or hours of the day.

For instance, priority vehicles (police, ambulances, fire trucks, etc.) are always allowed to access certain restricted urban areas, without being reported as a violation offender. Taxis or drivers with special permissions (e.g. handicapped people) could be allowed into a traffic restricted medieval city center zone, whereas normal cars are restricted. Public transportation (e.g. buses) could be allowed in a tunnel, whereas trucks with dangerous goods are disallowed.

Furthermore, it is possible to define exceptions, so that certain vehicles can still enter specific areas even if they do not comply with the restrictions (white list). It may also be possible to program certain (recurring) events in a city center (e.g. market day, festivals,...) during which special permissions are required to enter certain areas. Garbage trucks that enter only during certain days, trucks that can only enter for loading and unloading during certain hours of the day, etc.

A great advantage of this solution is that the installed ANPR camera network can be used for other limitless smart mobility applications. The use of cameras can therefore be flexibly designed in order to meet also evolutionary changing customer requirements.