Campus parking, measured

Which lots have space.

StudentA question about the next ten minutes.

DepartmentThe same question about the next ten years.

Tessera answers both from the same data. Students see what's open before they drive; parking departments see which lots fill, at what hour, and for how long — with no sensors, no cameras, and nothing connected to your systems.

Priced per campus, per year. Set up in days.

Sample view
Main campusLast 30 days
Tue
Busiest day
2h 40m
Median stay
38/64
Lots reporting
12a6a12p6p11p
Students & staff

You are already in the car. Where do you go?

Open Tessera and see which lots have space right now — reported minutes ago by people parking on your campus. Then tap once when you park, so the next person isn't guessing either.

Find parking now

Free for students and staff. Works in your browser — nothing to install.

Near youUpdated 4 min ago
Lot 18Beard · 3 min walkOpen
Collins GarageLevel 4+ · 6 min walkFilling
Lot 9ACrescent Hill · 4 min walkFull
Lot 42Sycamore · 9 min walkOpen
For parking & transportation

Three questions your department cannot answer today.

Not for want of attention — because the only records that exist are permit sales, gate counts inside the garages, and complaints.

“There is never any parking.”

You hear it constantly. You also suspect that at the exact moment it is said, several lots are half empty. Today you cannot prove either version, so the loudest account of your campus is the one that wins.

Decisions made on anecdote
“Do we need to build?”

A new structure is the largest capital request your department will ever make. The evidence available to argue it either way is gate counts covering only the garages — and the surface lots, where pressure shows first, are invisible.

Millions, argued from impressions
“When is it actually worst?”

Every lever you hold — shuttle timing, permit mix, event staffing, where you send an overflow — depends on knowing the hour and the weekday. Most departments work from a strong impression that has never been measured.

Mitigation aimed at the wrong hour
What you get

Four measures, each one an answer.

Every figure comes from real arrivals and departures on your campus. Nothing is modelled, inferred, or borrowed from a comparable school.

Which lots are actually under pressure?

Demand, lot by lot

Which lots are reported open, filling and full across the term — including the surface lots no gate count covers. The ones raised at every meeting, and the ones nobody has ever mentioned.

When does the pressure happen?

Arrivals by hour and by weekday

The shape of your day, and which weekday genuinely carries the load. This is the measure that tells you whether a mitigation is aimed at the right hour.

Is this a capacity problem or an allocation problem?

Median length of stay

How long a vehicle holds a space. Turnover is what separates “we need more spaces” from “we are selling the wrong permits for these lots” — and those two conclusions have very different price tags.

How much of this can you trust?

Coverage, stated on the page

How many lots produced data this month, out of how many exist. We show the gap rather than averaging across it, so you always know how much of your campus a number is speaking for.

How it works

Nothing to install. Nothing to integrate.

1

We configure your campus

Your lots, your permit zones, your enforcement hours, on your map. Days of setup — not a capital project, a trenching schedule, or an install window.

2

People on campus report

Students and staff mark lots open, filling or full as they park, from an app they already have a reason to open. Every report is timestamped and tied to a verified campus account.

3

You get the pattern

A dashboard your team reads, and an export you can hand to whoever is asking whether the next garage is really necessary.

Straight answers

What Tessera does not claim.

You have been pitched before. Here are the limits up front, so you can rule us out now rather than six months into a procurement cycle.

01We do not report percent-full.A report says a lot is open, filling or full. It does not count vehicles or spaces. Anyone quoting a precise occupancy percentage without a sensor or a gate count is estimating, and an estimate you cannot audit is worse than an honest range.
02Coverage starts partial, and we show it.Early on, some lots produce data and some produce none. The dashboard names the gap instead of smoothing it. Coverage grows with adoption — which your department can move faster than we can.
03This measures; it does not enforce.Tessera does not read plates, issue citations, manage permits or take payments. If it should feed the system that does, we would rather discuss the handoff than replace something that already works.
04We are early, and we will not pretend otherwise.Tessera is a young company working with its first campuses. What you get for that is a department whose questions shape the product, and a straight answer every time you ask one.
Pricing

One number, per campus, per year.

Priced per campus, annually — not per space, not per permit, not per user.

Your cost does not move because more students signed up, or because you opened a lot. One line item, one renewal date, sized to the campus.

Campus configuration — your lots, zones and hours
Departmental dashboard for your team
Demand by lot, by hour, by weekday
Median length of stay and turnover
Coverage reporting, stated honestly
Data export, so the numbers are yours

The first campuses join as pilot partners on terms that reflect it. Tell us your campus and we will come back with a number and what it covers — no discovery call required to get one.

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Security & privacy

The questions your IT office asks first.

No integration.

No student information system, no permit database, no card system, no network access. Nothing to wire up means very little to review — which is the point.

No plates. No tracking.

An account is an email, a campus and a username. We do not read license plates, we do not follow vehicles between lots, and we do not sell data to anyone.

Answers in writing — including the gaps.

Data handling, access control, retention, subprocessors, and an honest list of what we do not have yet. We will complete your HECVAT.

Read the security & privacy page

Questions

What departments ask first.

How is this different from a sensor or camera system?
Sensors count vehicles precisely and cost a capital project to install per lot. Tessera measures demand patterns across your whole campus for an annual fee with nothing installed. They answer different questions — and if you already have counting hardware in the garages, the useful conversation is about the surface lots it does not cover.
What if not enough students use it on our campus?
Then coverage is partial, and the dashboard says so on its face rather than filling the gap with an estimate. Adoption is the honest risk in this product, and it is the thing your department influences most — a link in one parking email reaches more drivers in a day than we reach in a month.
Do you need anything from our IT department?
No. No integration, no data feed from your systems, no network access. That is deliberate: it keeps you out of a long security review just to try something.
Can we get the raw data out?
Yes — export is included, always, and a data-export guarantee goes in the agreement. If you want it flowing into your own reporting automatically, tell us what shape you need it in. We would rather build to a real requirement than guess at one.
What happens to student data?
An account is an email address, a campus and a username. Reports are lot-level and timestamped. Location coordinates are erased after 90 days. We do not collect plates and we do not sell data. Our written posture and subprocessor list are on the security page.
Which campuses are you on today?
We are working with our first campuses now, and we are open about being early. Ask us directly where we stand — you will get the real answer, including if we are not yet a fit for you.

Two ways in.

If you are parking today, the app is open. If you run the parking, tell us your campus and the question you are trying to answer — we will show you what your department would see.