1.2 seconds from camera to barrier. No card to lose, no guard at the gate.
A municipality serving more than 400,000 residents controlled access to dozens of sites with key cards, hand-operated barriers and security guards. We built AI-based vehicle and personnel recognition that decides in 1.2 seconds. No access cards, no guards on site.
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Access control breaks at the gate
That is where most people pass through, and where the weak points pile up: a lost card, a barrier opened by hand, a guard who is supposed to know everyone.
Before: a patchwork across the city
The city operated dozens of yards, depots and facilities. Access relied on key cards, manually controlled barriers and on-site security staff.
- Cards went missing. Employees often lost or forgot them, which caused delays and security gaps.
- Guards cost a lot. Hiring one for every site was expensive.
- The system could not tell. It could not reliably separate authorised vehicles from unauthorised ones.
Bottlenecks and vulnerabilities, at the same time.
After: the gate recognises you
We developed a recognition system that uses computer vision to identify municipal employees and authorised vehicles in real time.
- The camera sees. A high-resolution camera at every gate captures and analyses the incoming vehicle and person.
- The system checks. It recognises licence plates and faces and matches them against a continuously updated municipal database.
- It all happens at the gate. Processing runs locally, at the gates.
- The barrier decides. In 1.2 seconds it opens, or stays closed, by itself.
It decides faster than you can tap a card: 1.2 seconds from camera to barrier, with no human involved.
What the city has now
- A 1.2-second decision, faster than any card-based or manual system.
- No physical access cards or key fobs.
- No on-site guards needed at the gates.
- No delays from lost, forgotten or faulty cards.
- Every entry and every denial logged in real time, with a full audit trail.
- One system across every depot, yard and facility.
Three ideas worth stealing
- The best access card is the one you cannot lose. If the system recognises you, there is nothing to forget.
- Security matters after the fact too. Every entry is logged, so you can always look back at who was there and when.
- One system, every site. What works at one gate has to work at all of them.
Many sites, one headache?
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