VALM is the permit and access register for large-scale construction and industrial sites. It allocates parking, directs every driver to the right zone, verifies arrivals at the kerb, and enforces the rules — on one auditable record, from first induction to final demobilisation.
On a major site, vehicle access is one of the few operational systems still run on trust. The consequences are not administrative — they are congestion at the gate, disputed enforcement, and capacity decisions made without data.
Permits are issued from a list that is always behind the headcount. Leavers stay on it, new starters are missed, and the register over-allocates zones that were already at capacity.
Drivers park where it suits them. The nearest zones run at capacity while the served outer zones sit half empty. Without a record of who parked where, there is nothing to escalate and nothing to defend.
Occupancy is estimated by walking the zones with a clipboard, once a week if at all. Investment decisions on new capacity rest on a sample, not a dataset.
VALM does not stop at issuing a permit. It closes the loop between what was allocated, what actually happened at the kerb, and what the organisation does about it.
Every vehicle is registered against a person, an employer and a zone. Permits carry an expiry, and the register reconciles continuously against the live workforce so departures release their space automatically.
Drivers see exactly where they are entitled to park, on their phone, before they arrive. Zone maps and an optional guided fly-through remove the excuse of not knowing.
Marshals scan credentials at the kerb in seconds. Plate recognition can be layered on where cameras exist. Each scan writes a timestamped record against the permit — right zone or wrong.
A wrong-zone scan notifies the employer’s administrator automatically. Breaches accumulate against a published threshold, and revocation is the end of a documented process rather than an argument.
Three interfaces, one register. Marshals work in seconds on a phone; administrators work in a full console; leadership gets the numbers without asking anyone to count.
The single source of truth for every vehicle, driver, employer and zone entitlement, with full change history on each record.
Installable on any phone, no app store. Scan a credential, confirm the zone, log the outcome — designed for gloved hands in poor signal.
Optional camera integration promotes automatic reads into the same register, so verification continues when no marshal is on the zone.
Configurable thresholds, automatic notification to the responsible employer contact, and a documented revocation path with named authorisers.
Zone-by-zone utilisation from live scan data, trended by week and against forecast demand — the counting exercise stops being a task.
Every allocation, scan, override and revocation is retained with actor and timestamp, and exports as a register a client or auditor can read.
Once every arrival is scanned, occupancy is no longer something the team goes out to measure. It is what the system already knows — reported daily, by zone, against capacity.
VALM handles personal data about workers and their vehicles. It is built and operated on that basis from the first day of a pilot.
No open sign-up. Accounts exist because an administrator created them, and roles are scoped to zone, employer or site.
Marshals verify. Administrators allocate. Only named authorisers can revoke. Every action is attributable.
Only the fields needed to allocate and verify a permit are held, with defined retention and clean export at demobilisation.
Field verification continues without connectivity and reconciles when signal returns — no gaps in the record.
Exceptions are supported where operations demand them, but never silently: a reason and an authoriser are mandatory.
Pilot on a single zone, prove the enforcement path end to end, then extend site-wide on an agreed schedule.
We run a short briefing for site leadership and logistics teams: the lifecycle, the enforcement path, and what a phased pilot would look like on your programme.