Experience seamless vehicle access with the Chalong License Plate Recognition (LPR) Boom Barrier.

Our Take

Credit to Keygon Alice for the straightforward product reel — no hype, just a gate that reads your plate and lifts. That plainness is exactly the point. This isn't a police department or a city council debating a surveillance contract; it's a parking lot vendor selling 'contactless access' like it's a feature on par with a garage door opener. When license plate recognition becomes this unremarkable, the public conversation about who's scanning you and why quietly disappears.

We don't know who's buying Chalong barriers or what happens to the plate data once a camera logs your car at an apartment complex, office park, or private lot. That's the problem with the entire ALPR industry, not just Flock Safety: dozens of companies are quietly building plate-reading infrastructure with little to no public disclosure of retention periods, data sharing agreements, or law enforcement access. A gate opening for you is convenient. A permanent record of every vehicle that passed through is a dragnet, whether it's run by a police department or a strip mall.

This is why we keep pushing people to look beyond the big-name players and ask basic questions about every plate reader they encounter — who owns it, where the data goes, how long it's kept. Check our camera map to see what's already been documented near you, and hit up take action if you want to push back on unchecked plate surveillance in your community.