Video Surveillance

How Do You Know If You Are In A Smart City?

Despite the global smart city hype, with daily headlines about new smart city projects, cities competing to be the smartest and governments around the world investing billions in smart cities, I frequently hear someone say “But what the heck is a smart city?”. By Stefan Alfredsson from the Axis Blog Today, many of us turn to …

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Introduction to ALPR for Law Enforcement

Law enforcement agencies throughout the nation and around the world are increasingly adopting Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) systems to enhance their enforcement and investigative capabilities, expand their collection of relevant data, and expedite the tedious and time consuming process of comparing vehicle license plates with lists of stolen, wanted, and other vehicles of interest. …

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Newark ‘Virtual Police’ initiative – NBC News

 VIA NBC News By Anthony Johnson Thursday, April 26, 2018 NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Thursday announced the launch of the “Citizen Virtual Patrol,” a virtual policing program. “This invaluable technology puts a real-time crime reporting tool in the hands of every concerned community member,” Baraka said. Officials say 62 …

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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) Are Bringing New Levels Of Data To Investigations

Automatic number-plate recognition(ANPR) is a technology that uses optical character recognitionon images to read vehicle registration plates to create vehicle location data. It can use existing closed-circuit television, road-rule enforcement cameras, or cameras specifically designed for the task. ANPR is used by police forces around the world for law enforcement purposes, including to check if a vehicle …

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The Future of Augmented License Plate Recognition

 Find Plates. Track Suspects. Solve Crimes.   Survail is a Law Enforcement investigation tool that analyzes your cities video surveillance footage to find every license plate possible on every camera in your network (even on cameras that aren’t dedicated to ALPR) and then allows you to map every-where and every-when a particular license plate has …

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