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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nCards and stickers became the default for a simple reason: for a long time, the plate could not be read reliably enough to grant access on its own, so the community handed each vehicle a physical credential instead. That made sense, what it also did was create a small operations department around this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every physical credential carries a lifecycle that someone has to manage. RFID stickers have to be stocked, then applied at the management office, one car at a time. Access cards have to be issued, replaced when lost, and chased when a resident moves out. None of this is the point of access control \u2014 it is the overhead the chosen method dragged in with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deeper problem is what the credential actually authorizes. A card authorizes whoever is holding it, not the person it was given to \u2014 lent to a non-resident, it works exactly the same. An RFID sticker is bonded to one windscreen, so a resident who changes cars needs a re-sticker, and a tenant who moves out drives away with a live sticker still on the glass. Deactivation depends entirely on whether an admin remembers to do it. This is the same silent decay we described in Why Your Condo’s Vehicle Records Are Already Wrong<\/a> \u2014 the credential rots for the same reason the records do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When the registered plate becomes the credential, the object disappears and so does its admin tail. There is nothing to stock, nothing to apply, nothing to hand back at move-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat LPR vehicle access control replaces<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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