Vehicle number plate recognition systems have numerous applications in traffic surveying and monitoring, such as finding stolen cars, controlling access to car parks and gathering traffic flow statistics. Within milliseconds LPR systems can locate, capture and identify a vehicle's license plate data and makes a read decision based on programmed requirements.

GLOBAL SCOPE can integrate LPR systems into complex intelligent traffic applications with comprehensive functions that can be tailored to meet special requirements.

GLOBAL SCOPE intergaread LPR Solutions can provide:

• Flexible and automatic highway toll collection systems
• Analysis of city traffic during peak periods
• Automation of weigh-in-motion systems
• Enhanced vehicle theft prevention
• Highest efficiency for border control systems, etc.
• Effective law enforcement.
  
  

Other possible applications include:

• Building a comprehensive database of traffic movement
• Automation and simplicity of airport and harbour logistics
• Security monitoring of roads, checkpoints, etc.
• Prevention of non-payment at gas stations, drive-in restaurants, etc.
• Chassis and Container Number Recognition System

LPR system's reliability and flexibility can accommodate some of the most stringent needs in some of the worst conditions. Boasting high accuracy rates, the speed of image processing and its adaptability. In addition to its capability of reading Latin characters LPR systems can read Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic and other types of number plates. Certain LPR applications can scan and process 30 license plates per second and execute continuous license plate reading even at vehicle speeds of up to 250km/h. This feature is especially important in convicting speed limit violators or for use in automatic toll collection projects.

Parking Facilities Solutions

LPR Parking systems have cameras at entry and exit lanes that capture license plate images. Optical character recognition software interprets the images. The images and the textual interpretations are stored in a database along with parking ticket serial numbers and times of entry/exit.

The simplest transaction occurs when a vehicle enters and later exits a parking facility. When a driver presents a parking ticket at the exit lane, the LPR system checks that the license plate number at exit is the same as the license plate number at entry for that ticket number. The License Plate Reader system can detect swapped tickets, provide entry time information for patrons who lose their tickets, and can handle a wide range of special transactions and exception transactions.

The LPR system has four major components: camera assemblies, image capture processors, a centralized database, and image review workstations.

They can be fully integrated with parking management equipment (ticket spitters, pay-on-foot stations, etc.) and enhances the operations of these system components in a variety of transactions.

The following images and flow charts show you how the system tracks and stores entry and exit information.
Click the links below for an understanding of processes:

Entry Transaction
The process that the License Plate Reader system goes through when a car enters a parking facility.

General Exit Transaction
General process that the system goes through when a customer exits the facility.

Lost Ticket Transaction
General process that the system goes through when a customer exits the facility without their parking ticket.

Benefits of LPR on Parking Facilities:

Customer Service

• Resolves lost ticket and fee disputes with factual evidence.
• Manage monthly or priority customers by identifying and allowing quick and easy entry into the facility.
• Provides additional financial controls needed by assisting advanced unmanned payment systems (such as pay-on-foot and credit card express lanes).
• If you now use manual LPR at exits, LPR improves throughput.

Fee Collections

• Collect full fees for lost tickets
• Identifies swapped tickets and computes correct fees.
• High-tech evidence persuades customers to abandon fraudulent claims and deters future attempts.
• Alerts staff to gray-listed customers (with history of lost tickets, disputed fees or insufficient funds).
• Offers the option to separate transaction decisions from the handling of cash.

Security

• Sends alarm for black-listed customers (with history of violence or on police alert list).
• Deters crime in parking facilities

Facility Awareness

• Provides summary reports, such as entry and exit transaction, active and inactive inventory, vehicle history, manual review, and deletion history reports.
• Provides audit trail for all entry and exit transactions.

Return on Investment

Even modest recovery of lost fees (~2%) can generate 50% ROI. (Financial results depend on multiple factors).
LPR slashes labor costs for manual inventory