About Tannery Creek Systems

Award-winning parking enforcement solutions built by world-class engineers who are passionate about making lives easier, safer, and more efficient.

Revolutionizing Parking Enforcement

Tannery Creek Systems makes autoChalk® – an award-winning vehicle recognition and license plate recognition (LPR) system designed specifically for parking enforcement. Built to be easy to use, tough, reliable, efficient, and productive. The autoChalk family includes mobile products for street and parking lot use, fixed cameras for garages and parkades, handheld Android apps, and powerful back office software to manage your entire operation.

A True Partnership Approach

We think of our customer relationship as a partnership where we are successful only when you are successful. Tannery Creek's team includes world-class engineers who work with our customers solving challenging problems that others could not.

We understand our clients' concern when systems are down, so our engineers work diligently to get them back on their feet as fast as possible. We provide direct access to the engineering team that built your system.

What Drives Us

Tannery Creek brings these four core values to everything we do

Build Tough & Reliable

We research and test all components to build the toughest equipment, ensuring you're up and running 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Easy to Use

We're passionate about creating intuitive equipment. We listen to customer suggestions to deliver the best user experience possible.

Customer Solutions

We understand each client's unique challenges and provide custom solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Comprehensive Support

Direct access to our engineers, remote assistance, on-site visits, and support from the team that built your system.

Company History

2004

Founding of Tannery Creek

Tannery Creek Systems was founded by Bill Franklin, P.Eng., Jeff Bethune, P.Eng., with Raphael Leung joining soon after. Their vision was to revolutionize parking enforcement technology.

2007

autoChalk® Launch

Our first commercial product, autoChalk®, was launched as a critical success. autoChalk® garnered several industry awards for the initial ParkPlus system in Calgary thus establishing Tannery Creek as an innovator in parking enforcement.

2013

Fixed Camera Launch

autoChalk® Parkade launched, bringing fixed-camera LPR to parking structures. The system tracks vehicles at entry and exit, automatically applying payments and generating citations for mail-out.

2017

autoChalk® Handheld Launched

autoChalk® Handheld launched as one of the first Android-based parking enforcement apps, replacing bulky dedicated devices. Officers could now use their own smartphone to run a full-featured enforcement system.

2020

autoChalk® Compact Launched

autoChalk® Compact launched, delivering the same powerful AI/ML license plate recognition as our flagship Mobile system, but without LIDAR—ideal for customers who prefer a smaller visual footprint.

Today

Continuing Innovation

While the autoChalk family has become more sophisticated with mobile, fixed camera, handheld, and office solutions, our core principles remain the same: making people's lives easier, safer, and more efficient.

Meet Our Founders

World-class engineers committed to solving your toughest challenges

BF

Bill Franklin, P.Eng.

Co-Founder & President

Engineering leader with a passion for creating innovative solutions that solve real-world parking enforcement challenges.

JB

Jeff Bethune, P.Eng.

Co-Founder & VP Engineering

Software engineering expert driving technical excellence and leading the development of autoChalk's advanced features.

RL

Raphael Leung

Co-Founder & Senior Engineer

Engineering specialist focused on delivering reliable, high-quality solutions that work in the toughest conditions.

Ready to Learn More?

Discover how Tannery Creek Systems can transform your parking enforcement operations. Talk to our team about your unique challenges and let us show you what's possible.

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