University of Washington, Seattle

Summary

SEATTLE, WA – TagMaster North America technology integrated directly with T2 System’s permit management and enforcement and T2 Flex system to provide the University of Washington, Seattle with a complete parking solution.

Challenge

The University of Washington at Seattle required a campus-wide parking system with a large number of gates. Lots were clearly defined and accessible only to specific groups of people.

Solution

T2 Systems, a parking solutions supplier, provided the University with T2 Flex, a comprehensive and campus-wide parking system that manages parking access, revenue control and permits, making parking management and enforcement a seamless operation. Over forty TagMaster long-range UHF XT-3 Readers were integrated into T2’s cohesive solution, ultimately allowing for quick, hands-free vehicle access for students, faculty and staff at the controlled parking areas on UW’s campus. The long-range RFID Reader identifies a vehicle’s TagMaster AVI Tag as it approaches an entrance/exit gate and T2 Flex verifies the identity, triggering a gate to open for valid tags and denying access to anyone not permitted access in the specific parking area.

Conclusion

TagMaster North America was able to add features onto the XT-3 Readers such as tag filtering, where the Readers can correctly and reliably distinguish between multiple tags in an area without disrupting the processing time, and TCP/IP, where the communications protocol can be used in the universities private network. This integration enabled The University of Washington, Seattle to create a truly unified parking management platform.