ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The Allentown Parking Authority Board of Directors received a presentation on a new artificial intelligence parking enforcement platform Wednesday afternoon at Miller Symphony Hall.
WiseSight, an artificial intelligence Columbus, Ohio-based company, would provide the APA with a 90-day trial period focused on North Seventh Street double-parking violations between Tilghman and Liberty streets. A total of six cameras located on three poles — two cameras on each pole — would be utilized.
“We picked an area where we know there are a lot of violations,” APA Executive Director Jonathan Haney told the board Wednesday afternoon. He added the authority was not looking at this time to implement the full scope of WiseSight’s AI potential. Haney used a football analogy to demonstrate this by saying he wasn’t calling a reverse Statue of Liberty play but rather would “hand the ball off and run up the middle.”…