Smart Parking Simplified

Sighthound powers real-time parking enforcement, EV zone compliance, and occupancy analytics using edge AI and ALPR.

Reduce unpaid stays. Catch freeloaders. Detect overstays. And optimize parking infrastructure across lots, garages, curbsides, and EV zones, without changing your existing systems.

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Increase Parking Revenues and Customer Insights

Unlock the data trapped in video to drive your business forward

Monetize

  • Monitor lot and curbside occupancy in real-time to improve space turnover and grow revenue

  • Detect overstays and unauthorized vehicles instantly, automate citations or trigger alerts

  • Boost compliance with visual evidence that backs enforcement

  • Support dynamic pricing models using live utilization data

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Analyze

  • Understand space usage trends across time, location, and vehicle types

  • Enable data-driven enforcement, pricing, and planning decisions

  • Identify peak congestion, flag patterns of misuse, or theft hotspots

  • Feed structured analytics to your BI stack or dashboard API

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Optimize

  • Combine ALPR + MMCG (Make, Model, Color, Generation) for unmatched detection accuracy

  • Deploy edge cameras to reduce bandwidth and cloud dependency

  • Lower TCO with fewer cameras needed per zone (multi-lane, multi-object detection)

  • Run live inference at the edge for real-time decisions, no lag, no limits

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Operationalize

  • Seamless integration with gates, kiosks, permit systems, EV chargers, and third-party tools

  • Automate loyalty and parking app workflows using vehicle identity

  • Speed up gate entries, reduce congestion, and improve customer experience

  • Empower teams with 24/7 visibility, no blind spots, no downtime

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DETECT
 Entry/exit presence, lot-level and zone-based occupancy in real time

IDENTIFY
 Vehicle Make, Model, Color, Generation (MMCG) matched to ALPR results

CLASSIFY
 Distinguish delivery trucks, rideshare vehicles, EVs, and unauthorized users

REPORT
 Generate city-wide or operator-wide insights, automate alerts, and forecast trends

Future-Proof Parking for the EV Era

An electric vehicle charging station in an empty parking lot with a white electric Tesla charging and a gray non-electric car parked nearby, with a sign indicating non-electric vehicles are not allowed in the EV spot.

EV spaces are in high demand, but they’re often misused or underutilized. Sighthound helps you manage EV parking smarter with real-time data and automation.

Occupancy

  • Know if a vehicle is electric or not

  • Get alerts when non-EVs park in EV spots

  • See when EVs are fully charged and overstaying

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Queues

  • Detect when lines are forming at chargers

  • Track how long people are waiting

  • Reduce driver complaints and parking confusion

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Availability

  • Show real-time spot availability in your app

  • Free up spaces faster with automated alerts

  • Improve charger usage without hiring more staff

24x7 real-time data on street or off street

The insights gathered from our technology are extremely valuable 

  • Real-time counts and occupancy

  • Historical usage trends and statistics

  • Where employees are parked

  • How spaces are utilized, flow analytics

  • Insights on VIPs, out-of-towners, suspicious vehicles

24x7 real-time data on street or off street

Customer Trust

Trusted by hospitals, universities, cities, residential complexes, and parking operators worldwide.

 “We chose Sighthound because of the perfect combination of performance, speed, accuracy and price.”

— CEO, Parking Boss.

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Trusted globally

Each parking situation is unique; from visibility to network connectivity, vehicle type to pedestrian habits. 

Our customers trust us to help manage parking spaces around the world, in hospitals, universities, cities, on curbsides, residential complexes and more.

Our technology is easy to deploy and clients love working with us. We serve Parking Management Companies, Industry Consultants, Systems Integrators and Municipal Paring Operators.

 

Operators lose revenue and frustrate drivers when EV parking isn’t managed properly. Sighthound gives you the tools to enforce rules, speed up turnover, and deliver a better experience, without adding more hardware or people.

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