- Moving Output to Another System - Just remember that the ITC Traffic Cams are very different than the IPC regular. In that respect the camera addresses pic capture locally, encrypts local storage and looks to offload video capture to an NVR'/NVR platform etc as I showed in my review. Therefore no local playback of video. With that said nothing stops you sending a sub stream outside of the unit to OpenALPR etc should you wish and have the sub stream processing platform send you alerts, video and plate hits. However just remember that the beauty of a full blown ANPR traffic cam like this is on board processing for black and white lists + gate/entry/access control all on cam. Just pointing that out not so you don't send this to another platform but just to reiterate what is possible on the cam itself which depending on your use case may do everything you need.
I want the data out of the system, so it can retained for a longer period, do searches in our own manner & do automatic adjustments to plates etc.
For example, the police use my system quite a bit. I thought when first setting up ALPR system that the vehicle plate would be of interest. While that is true, the police often want access to the information to identify vehicles.
For example, there is an armed robbery of a gas station a couple blocks away. They know it was a grey Toyota and have a photo from the gas station surveillance system, but no plate. They can use my system in 'mugshot mode' to view all vehicles captured by the license plate system. They are shown vehicles and can quickly exclude the ones that are clearly not matches to the Toyota used in the robbery.
Very quickly you can narrow down suspect vehicles and when you find your matching vehicle, you have the plate.
The best part of the mugshot mode, the vehicle does not even need to be captured on that same day. If 6 months ago that Toyota was captured by the license plate system and they were using a stolen license plate to commit the robbery, it does not matter. By looking at mugshots of vehicles you can find out what license plate the vehicle used previously.
My system can also detect 'plate switchers' which are people who have one set of plates and switch it between different vehicles. If they want to drive the Ford today, they put their plate on the ford. If they want to drive the Mercedes tomorrow they move their plate to the Mercedes. Totally illegal, but they do it.
These are some of the things I have developed, all outside of OpenALPR which is why we want to use these new cameras but still have some way to get the data out of the camera and into my own system.