ANPR stands for Automatic Number Plate Recognition.
In the USA the term ALPR is often seen: Automatic License Plate Recognition.
The CitySync Jet ANPR range of products are based around our own Jet ANPR recognition engine.
An Automatic Number Plate Recognition System firstly locates a number plate on a vehicle and then reads and interprets the plate. Usually the system can create a log of vehicle movements with date, time and location.
Systems can not only read a plate, but having interpreted it, the software can usually look up the plate in a database and display information about the vehicle or driver on an operator's screen.
Instantaneous warnings can be given for vehicles of interest.
e.g. a well known shoplifter arriving at a shopping mall.
ANPR is therefore suited to both security and access control applications.
Police and Customs will use ANPR to check every vehicle passing a control point .. whilst a factory or car park operator might use the system for car park auditing, customer charging etc.
Often systems will be stand alone i.e. one computer in a guard hut connected to one or two cameras. However, there is a often need to build expandable, fully integrated ANPR systems spanning a wide geographical area.
A modern example of this type of ANPR system is Congestion Charging where the systems need to run day and night collecting data in real time from hundreds of ANPR cameras. Every vehicle entering the centre of a city is checked against a list of excempt, pre-paid or non-paid drivers and the appropriate action taken.
Jet ANPR Systems do all this and more. You will read about some of these configurations here ... but the best way is to contact us and we can help you write your system specification.
