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ANPR

Definition

Automatic Number Plate Recognition. A camera plus OCR pipeline that reads vehicle number plates at speed and logs the plate, timestamp, and location to a database.

Related terms

Calibration Cycle
The periodic re-certification of a speed-measurement device against a traceable reference, usually annually for radar guns and every six months for LIDAR....
Cosine Error
The under-reading of true speed that occurs when the radar or LIDAR beam is not perfectly aligned with the vehicle's direction of...
Doppler Effect
The change in observed frequency when the source and the observer move relative to each other. A radar gun emits a known...
FASTag-ANPR Fusion
Indian highway tolling pairs RFID FASTag reads with ANPR cameras at every electronic toll gantry, creating a national vehicle-position log that investigators...
Time-of-Flight (LIDAR)
A measurement principle where the device emits short laser pulses and times how long each pulse takes to return. Multiple pulses over...

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