New · Access & Yard Management

Ephoro

Control every gate. See every yard. In real time.

Ephoro controls and logs every person and vehicle moving in and out of your site. It scans drivers and vehicles at the gate, allocates each truck to a bay, and streams it live to your control room — offline-first, and built for POPIA from day one.

Ephoro dashboard and rugged handheld devices in a logistics yard
One platform, two modes

Built for the yard. Ready for the park.

Ephoro runs both access scenarios from the same handheld and the same dashboard, so a single deployment covers your whole site.

Yard Access Management

Trucks, bays & live capacity

Scan the driver and vehicle at the gate, allocate the truck to a bay, and watch the yard fill in real time.

  • Allocate to Parking Lot, Work Shop, Wash Bay, Pick Up or Delivery
  • Live capacity per bay with full / filling / open status
  • Auto-alert when a bay is full — redirect on the spot
  • Entrance & exit sequences, fully logged
Park Access Management

Visitors, contractors & deliveries

Control who enters a business park — captured, declared and verified in seconds at the gate.

  • Reason for entrance: visitor, contractor, delivery, staff
  • Company & person visiting, with auto-complete
  • Items to declare and a photo of cargo
  • Clean entrance & exit audit trail
Live yard visibility

Your whole site, mapped and monitored in real time.

Every gate, bay and building becomes a live node. Ephoro overlays movement, capacity and diagnostics straight onto your site plan — so the control room sees the full picture at a glance.

Ephoro live yard map of the facility
Live nodes online
Facility operational
Status: Nominal
Yard capacity: 82%
Gate throughput: 94%
Diagnostics: Nominal
Storage diagnostics: Nominal
What's inside

Everything the gate and the control room need.

Scan & decode

Reads the PDF417 barcodes on the SA driver's licence and vehicle disc — decrypts and validates the licence on the spot.

Live yard map & alerts

See where every truck is and the space available. Bays alert the moment they hit capacity so operators redirect instantly.

Masked IDs & POPIA

ID numbers are masked everywhere by default and only revealed by authorised admins — every reveal audit-logged.

Access log & reports

Every entry and exit, filterable and exportable. Know who and what is on site at any moment.

Offline-first

Gates lose connectivity — Ephoro doesn't. Captures queue locally and sync the moment the link returns.

Rugged handheld

Runs on industrial Newland rugged handhelds with integrated 2D imagers — fast, reliable reads at the gate.

How it works

From gate to dashboard in four steps.

1

Scan at the gate

Operator scans the driver's licence and vehicle disc on the handheld.

2

Decode & validate

Ephoro decrypts the licence, reads the vehicle details and verifies them.

3

Allocate & declare

Assign the truck to a bay, capture items to declare and a cargo photo.

4

Live on the dashboard

The control room sees the movement, the yard fill and any alerts instantly.

The hard part, solved

Real SA licence decoding — done right.

The encrypted South African driver's licence is notoriously tricky to read. Ephoro decodes and validates it reliably, then masks the sensitive parts before anyone sees them.

Decrypts the 720-byte driver's-licence PDF417 (v1 & v2)
Parses the vehicle disc: plate, make, model, colour, expiry
Validated against published government samples
Best-in-class reads via Newland rugged handheld scanners
DriverS. SANDERS
ID number86XXXXXXX9012
Licence codeB
VehicleToyota Hilux
PlateCA 123-456
AllocationWash Bay
Privacy by design

POPIA-ready, not bolted on.

The licence barcode exposes a 13-digit ID number. Ephoro masks it everywhere by default, encrypts it at rest, restricts export, and logs every authorised reveal — so personal information stays protected and auditable.

See Ephoro on your site — book a live demo »

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