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mlapaglia

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I wanted to see how small I could spend on a dedicated ALPR machine.

I found a cheap ASRock FM1 motherboard, PSU, and old SSD in my closet. I got an A8-3870K CPU for $30 on ebay. I found a 2U server chassis to hold it https://amzn.to/2LIGFke. 4GB of memory was barely enough for the OS and OpenALPR so I upped it to 8GB for another $40 https://amzn.to/2BTZ0Gu. I used a PCIe dual ethernet card to talk to the main vlan and the camera vlan, isolating the cameras from the outside world https://amzn.to/2Vkwbfr.

The machine uses ~80 watts of power during the day and ~40 during the night (less motion to detect in the environment so less processing).

Overclocked the CPU to 3.2GHz and started feeding it 2 cameras.
Even on several generation old hardware 2 cameras are easily supported.
 

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That is great ! Thank you for the parts list Something To consider I guess if someone want to run there ALPR machine Thank You !
 

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I suppose, more just showing you can use pretty dated hardware to run alpr.
 
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