Friday, November 21, 2014

Corvallis Arms Parking Police With Android Tablets

Uh oh. It looks like the city of Corvallis, Oregon is arming its meter readers with some high tech tools, tapping a company to provide a new Android parking product on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 tablets to help streamline taking down names and numbers. The city said it has moved to a new, Android parking product to manage downtown and residential on-street parking, using software from gtechna. The city said using the new software and tablets will let parking enforcement officers cover more ground during a shift, capture images in the field, and also move the technique of "chalking" to the digital age. Chalking is the method that parking enforcement officers typically use to mark a tire or auto with a subtle mark to figure out if cars have been parking too long in a particular part of town. Image courtesy Balley Weaver via Flickr.