Case Study: Silicon Valley City achieves zero illegal dumping with V5 Systems OnSight portable LPR

Illegal Dumping Drops to Zero for Silicon Valley City

Silicon Valley City was facing an illegal-dumping crisis across roughly 200 hotspots that cost the city nearly $1 million a year in cleanup and generated dozens of resident service requests daily. Traditional tactics like signage and fixed cameras failed to stop the problem, so the city evaluated a mobile, self-powered option from V5 Systems — the OnSight™ Portable License Plate Reader (OnSight LPR).

V5 Systems deployed lightweight, solar-powered OnSight LPR units that combine live video, license-plate capture, real-time alerts and onboard HD storage, and can be rapidly redeployed to new hotspots. In areas with the units installed, illegal dumping dropped to zero and service requests fell to zero in the nearly one-year period reported; the devices even paid for themselves within a handful of citations, delivering clear ROI and letting the city reclaim public spaces.