Configuring AutoVu™ for access control

To grant or deny a vehicle access to a protected area, (parking lot, gate, entrance, and so on) based on their license plates, you can configure a custom LPR-based access control solution.

To set up access rules for parking facilities:

1. Name the Sharp entities.
   Security Center automatically detects all Sharp cameras connected to the network, but you should name each camera according to its function or location. In our example, use the names Sharp Lot A, Sharp Lot B, and Sharp Lot C.

   NOTE: Configuration is simpler when all Sharp cameras are on the same LPR Manager. However, if the Sharp cameras are on multiple LPR Managers, you must assign your hotlists accordingly.
2. Turn on hotlist matching for the LPR Manager controlling your Sharp cameras.
3. Create and configure your hotlists.
   Name each hotlist according to its contents. In the university campus example, use the names Faculty, Students, Management, Maintenance, and Scofflaws.

   NOTE: In the university example, Guests represent anyone that shows up unannounced. Therefore, they are they are not included on any hotlist.
4. Create a schedule.

   For example, if you want the Maintenance staff to only have access to your parking lot between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM, you must create a schedule in Security Center that reflects that. You’ll use this schedule later when you create your event-to-actions.

5. Assign your hotlists to Sharp cameras and the LPR Manager as follows:
   • Faculty to Sharp Lot A and to Sharp Lot B.
   • Students to Sharp Lot B.
   • Management to Sharp Lot C.
   • Scofflaws and Maintenance to the LPR Manager.

   NOTE: The Maintenance hotlist must be assigned to the LPR Manager because it depends on a schedule. All hotlists that you combine with schedules must be assigned to the LPR Manager.
6. (Optional) If you have only one LPR Manager on your system, unassign the Faculty, Students, and Management hotlists from the LPR Manager.

   When you have only one LPR Manager, new hotlists are assigned to that LPR Manager by default (new hotlists are left unassigned if you have multiple LPR Managers). When you assign a hotlist to a Sharp, Security Center does not automatically unassign it from the LPR Manager; you must do it manually. Otherwise you will get duplicate match events from the other Sharp cameras.

   Example: If you assign the Students hotlist to Sharp Lot B, but forget to unassign it from the LPR Manager, a plate read from that list by Sharp Lot B will also trigger matches on Sharp Lot A and Sharp Lot C.
7. Configure event-to-actions for the Sharp Lot A, Sharp Lot B, and Sharp Lot C cameras.
8. Configure event-to-actions for the Scofflaws and Maintenance hotlists.