Lake Forest residents see open beach spaces before they drive.
At Forest Park Beach, compact Parkva Flow cameras mark each space open or taken, and residents see where there’s room in the city’s own app.
Forest Park Beach
Before the beach, there’s the parking.
Forest Park Beach, Lake Forest, Illinois.
What people see
No more driving down to look.
Residents open the city’s app and see how many spaces are open, and where. City staff see the same lot from a browser, without walking it.
The count and the open spaces here are an example, not a reading.
How it works
From a lamp post to a phone.
Step 1. Compact cameras. Designed to belong.
Each one sits on a lamp post the lot already has.
Step 2. Every space, open or taken.
Parkva Flow marks each space green or red. It sees a car, never whose car.
Step 3. Residents check the city’s app.
The count sits beside the beach weather, so a family can decide before they drive.
Step 4. Staff see it from a browser.
The people who run the beach see the whole lot without walking it.
Where else does this fit?
Anywhere people want to know whether there’s room before they drive: a downtown deck, a campus lot before class, a marina on a holiday weekend. If you run a lot like this one, we’ll walk through what it would look like on yours.