AREATEC HISTORY
1996, 2003 and 2009 represent different stages: a technical journey, a brand and the company now responsible for the products.
The starting point was practical experience with technology applied to traffic operations. It marks the beginning of the professional history that would lead to Areatec, not the incorporation date of the current company.
In 1996, the technical journey that would later lead to Areatec began in Araras.
The brand gave a name to an approach that starts in the field and returns to the field. Official trademark filings followed at INPI in 2010, with grants in 2012.
The Areatec brand was created in 2003. Its trademark applications were filed with INPI in 2010 and granted in 2012.
The corporate structure brought the brand, products and engineering under the same legal responsibility.
In 2009, the company that now holds the Areatec brand and products was incorporated.
The story continues in systems used every day in urban operations.
317,000 managed parking spaces.
Areatec processes more than 600 million transactions per year.
Areatec processes more than 307.7 million OCR license plate reads per year.
Based on the inventory and technical comparison maintained by the company on August 13, 2026, Areatec states that it operates the world's largest fleet of OCR vehicles.
In Areatec technical record dated August 13, 2026, Aretron is presented as the first Large Mobility Model trained specifically for mobility and urban operations.
