RE: ANPR Software for Gate control

[Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahh... I don't know...- I never actually used it... :-)  I only used
the ma=
in GV-System software...

P.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of K=
evin Hawkins
Sent: 02 January 2013 16:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] ANPR Software for Gate control

Interesting....is the ANPR functionality in Geovision now included free =
=20
? Previously it was an additional significant cost licence to buy.   If=20
it's now included I'll have to dig out my GV card and have a play if my
car=
d is supported..

I'd been looking for a similar thing for a long while too but the ANPR
soft=
ware is always very expensive, or really limited, . working on Lichenstein
=
format number plates only ...

You do need special camera's to get good results -  IR sensitive and the
ab=
ility to handle head on headlamp glare which typically saturates cameras. 
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If you're vehicles are slow moving it's easier as you don't=20
need high scan rates,   which for a gate application would be the case.

I once found an online service which accepts jpeg images and returns you
th=
e licence plate number in near realtime. The company was based in
Scandanav=
ia and still evolving the system.  It was charged per image but I decided
i=
t was still to expensive.. Something like 50p/image from memory.

In the end after nearly two years of laborious eBay trawling I found a
seco=
nd hand camera with inbuilt UK format ANPR recognition engine...  It
output=
s via IP / RS232 serial the registrations. Horrendously expensive when new
=
and still pretty outrageous used - more than the cost Paul mentions below,
=
but I bit the bullet as I'd searched fruitlessly so=20
long.   It's one of the motorway type speed cameras (not stolen=20
surprisingly) but has old firmware on it.  These things are intended to be
=
perpetually under a maintenance contract with the manufacturer but their
co=
sts are so ridiculous to update the firmware or even chat about support
wit=
hout a contract that I've just used it as it is.

I actually have just got a second supposedly working one from the same guy
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but it has what I hope is just a configuration issue causing the camera to
=
reboot periodically. They're Linux based. which is not familiar ground for
=
me.  My first camera did this too but I somehow fixed that and it's worked
=
fine ever since. Unfortunately I can't remember what the problem was. I
tho=
ught it was an obscure IP configuration issue with the time server but
that=
seems correct.  It only arrived last month and I'll be playing some more w=
ith this when/if I get a moment.

K

On 02/01/2013 15:23, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Depends largely on your definition of expensive I should think...
>
> Geovision do ANPR, and the software is free, but you need a recent
model =
geovision card to use it... I think you're looking in the region of
=C2=A36=
00 for said card... About =C2=A3120 per property... Are all your
neighbours=
prepared to chip in to that extent?
>
> Paul G
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 2 Jan 2013, at 13:03, "ANTHONY" <tonyhill@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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>> Has anyone got any experience in low cost ANPR software
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>> I live in a complex of five properties which have a set of
electric gate=
s controlled by key fob and key pad.
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>> It struck me that using a PC or mac mini and a camera if there was
some =
low cost ANPR software we could program our reg numbers and friends
numbers=
and gates could then open.
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>> Only software I can see is expensive.
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>> Any ideas on low cost method would be appreciated
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>> thanks
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