An intelligent parking management system for a plurality of residential communities, the system comprising:
- at least one gate disposed at an entry of one of a plurality of residential communities comprising at least one of an apartment complex, residential building, and a condominium, the at least one gate providing entry into the of one of a plurality of residential communities;
- a license plate reader operably configured to act as a gate control device for the at least one gate, the license plate reader operably configured to automatically capture at least one license plate image of an approaching vehicle to the at least one gate, the at least one gate operably configured to transition from an open position to a closed position;
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- at least one server that is communicatively coupled to, over a communications network, to the license plate reader, the at least one server including:
- a memory storing different parking policies for the plurality of residential communities having a corresponding restricted parking lot associated with each of the residential communities registered with the at least one server, the parking policies each having a plurality of parking rules associated with a community association contract or other community association agreement in place between one of the plurality of residential communities and at least one resident user of a plurality of resident users and including at least one rule limiting entry of a maximum number of total vehicles associated with the at least one resident user into the one of the plurality of residential communities through the at least one gate;
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- at least one processor that executes programming instructions to:
- store, on the memory, a plurality of resident user account registration requests from the plurality of resident users, each having a user indication of one of the respective communities of the plurality of residential communities associated therewith;
- communicate at least one of the plurality of resident user account registration requests to an electronic device, communicatively coupled to the server, of a third-party property manager user associated with the one of the respective communities of the plurality of residential communities indicated by the user for approval;
- create, after approval by the third-party property manager user associated with the one of the respective communities of the plurality of residential communities indicated by the user for approval, a plurality of registered resident user accounts and associate each of the respective plurality of registered user accounts with one of the plurality of residential communities, each of the registered resident user accounts having a registered license plate number associated with the registered resident user account and one of the plurality of residential communities associated therewith;
- validate the approaching vehicle to the at least one gate and place the at least one gate in the open position by comparing a license plate number determined from the at least one license plate image of the approaching vehicle to the at least one gate to the registered license plate number of the registered resident user account;
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- either issue an automatic and electronic warning to the at least one resident user or issue a parking violation associated with the license plate number determined from the at least one license plate image of the approaching vehicle based on a determination of license plate incongruousness, wherein the warning or the violation are issued when the approaching vehicle represents a total amount of vehicles associated with the at least one resident user over the maximum number of total vehicles when compared to the at least one rule limiting entry of the maximum number of total vehicles associated with the at least one resident user into the one of the plurality of residential communities of the plurality of parking rules associated with the community association contract or other community association agreement in place between the one of the respective communities of the plurality of residential communities and the at least one resident user of the plurality of resident users.