ANPR
ANPR can be used in any road traffic environments: from parking houses to highways with a wide range of benefits. Access control systems use it for a license plate-based entry/exit control. Modern highways use ANPR for automated toll control. Traffic management systems use license plate recognition for identifying wanted vehicles, detecting speeders and violators. In smart cities, ANPR is used for congestion charging, journey time measurement (JTMS) and more.
License plate recognition technology is often referred to with abbreviations, such as ANPR – Automatic Number Plate Recognition, LPR – License Plate Recognition, ALPR – Automatic License Plate Recognition and more. While these abbreviations are slightly different, they all stand for an image processing software that is capable of recognizing license plates and transforming them to digital data.