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Automatic Number Plate Recognition also known as ANPR

Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras commonly known ANPR can be a useful for security, safety or convenience in a number of applications This technology is commonly used by traffic police or parking management companies but it is now affordable and available to business, property and home owners. It has long been used by traffic police use to alert them to a suspect vehicle or to capture a speeding driver. It is used in many modern, car parks to clock the time spent on site, triggering an automatic barrier to lift or a gate to open when a vehicle leaves. Using features such as the roboplate netsend the robosend ANPR cameras can capture and save number plate data in real time. You can maintain black and whitelists with known registration plates and configure what action(s) should be performed subject to a result being obtained. Different actions can result from a plate matched against the black, white, or 'grey' list. All unknown vehicles (ie: not specified in the black or white list) are considered to be in a 'grey' list. With some systems these are known as green red or amber lists. For example, on matching a number plate to a whitelist the camera could open your gate or a barrier, a black list match might be used to turn on a warning light or sounder, an unknown vehicle might result in an email notification. You could have a VIP list, Customer list, Staff list, Courier list etc. A live image and a pop up message from the camera when a registration match is made can be built in to the lists. The software can support vehicle groups, these can be named to categorise particular vehicles, you may for example have groups for normal staff, security staff, VIPs or contractors. For maximum flexibility, vehicles may be a member of multiple groups. A schedule can be applied to each group specifying an active time period for specific days of the week. Subject to this schedule any of the defined actions may be triggered to happen. Day to day admin of vehicle registrations is made into an easy task for operators by using a familiar Windows interface and additional information such as vehicle make, model, colour and owner. These details can be displayed on-screen when a match is detected too.