Vigilant Solutions VSR-60-02MP1 IP Camera IPC262ER9-X10DU 24V, 1.5A, 50/60Hz.

Gimmons said:
I'm using Blue Iris. I just got three of them. I'm hoping to set it up for alpr using code project and BI, but I am still fiddling with it.
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You may want to leave the stock firmware on the one you are going to use for LPR unless you have a reason to upgrade. The Vigilant firmware was probably made specifically for LPR--I am not sure what the difference would be, but I would think the IR lamps work differently?

I am planning to test out the firmware on a camera I won't be using for LPR and see if it behaves differently.
 
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I'd be interested if you're able to find any LPR features. I looked on Vigilant's website. They seem very law enforcement oriented. It would be great if there were some LPR AI loaded in the camera and just waiting for some secret access code to come to life.
 
gregtec5 said:
@PeteJ are you using blue iris to do the recording and outlining of the plate?
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Yes, BI to take the video feed from the camera and send that to CPAI for AI processing. Then if a plate is found, have BI send that data to ALPR Database so that it can be searched. It takes a little effort to get all that going, so it works pretty well.

MikeLud1

Thread 'Blue Iris and CodeProject.AI ALPR'

CodeProject.AI version 2.0 was released Jan 16, 2023 with my ALPR module, this thread is for all topic CodeProject.AI ALPR.

To setup the ALPR you need one of the Object Detection module's and License Plate Reader module installed, You need to be on the current version of Blue Iris, below are my BI AI settings

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algertc

Thread 'Full ALPR Database System for Blue Iris!'

Hello everyone

I created this project as an alternative to the super expensive options from PlateMinder and Rekor. This still depends on your own CodeProject or DeepStack AI, but offers a nice all-in-one solution to actually use and make sense of the data, which is half the point of having the AI read the plates to begin with. It has been working great for me so far, really huge upgrade, so I wanted to share it.

I know there was a NodeRed app created a while ago that had some of this functionality. I took some inspiration from that and tried to bring it to the next level.

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Don't try to get ALPR database working until you've got CPAI working first.
 
Gimmons said:
I'd be interested if you're able to find any LPR features. I looked on Vigilant's website. They seem very law enforcement oriented. It would be great if there were some LPR AI loaded in the camera and just waiting for some secret access code to come to life.
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So Vigilant is no longer around, they got acquired by Motorola. That's why these cameras are so cheap on ebay, and if you got a lot of time on your hands, you can probably piece together all of the original HW and SW to get a system working as it was intended---cameras mounted on a police cruiser, but it's probably not worth the effort.

The LPR features I am referring to is all of the little things that make reading a license plate possible--high shutter speed, fixed focus, strong IR, decent lens, etc.

Here is an example of a plate read from a Vigilant LPR camera [not the $35 one] at around 95ft at dusk using the IR sensor on a moving vehicle with very little ambient light.

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Only the newest version of the camera has onboard AI--and these go for around $3K each and you need the software from Morotola to go around with it. But you can get very good results with open source tools written by members here.
 
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