Hanwha Vision brings high-speed ANPR camera to market

The new camera features Hanwha’s ROAD AI solution, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based video analytics to identify the type, make, model and colour of detected vehicles across 70 different automotive brands, 600 models and ten colours.

Models are supplied with ‘Global Shutter’ technology for greater accuracy and clarity of captured number plate images and yield a high-frame rate of up to 60 fps. Footage can be accessed through Wisenet WAVE, Wisenet SSM and other video management software (including Milestone and Genetec).

With eyewitness accounts quite often being inaccurate or incomplete, and particularly so with regards to vehicle licence number plates, the ability to search for vehicles by make, model and colour is likely to be of great assistance to investigating teams when looking to find footage of a vehicle involved in an incident.

Similarly, with criminals frequently swapping licence plates on vehicles in order to avoid ANPR identifying them as being stolen, the police service can use the make, model and colour search criteria to cross-reference against reports of stolen vehicles.

Regional coverage

In addition to the UK and Europe, these cameras can identify number plates and vehicle make/models from other regions including the USA and Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Middle East, South Africa and Russia.

Using the TNO-7180RLP, operators gain greater insights into road usage, with planners being able to take any trends into account when the widening of roads or the creation of new bus and cycle lanes is being considered. In this respect, the pre-installed Road AI solution’s dashboard provides an overview of key statistics such as the number and type of vehicles (eg cars, buses and trucks) identified per day or week in pie chart and other display formats.

Through Hanwha Vision’s Wisenet WAVE, operators can also search for partial number plates captured by the cameras.

To yield the best view of number plates, the TNO-7180RLP camera web viewer can provide suggestions to operators on camera set-up including the optimum vertical, roll and horizontal angle. The cameras feature adaptive IR with three separate IR illuminators (short/wide, medium/mid and long/tele) and can illuminate up to 50 metres with a motorised varifocal lens and up to 18x optical zoom.

Alongside highway and road monitoring, the cameras can also be used to control vehicle access and parking restrictions thanks to their whitelist and blacklist feature. This can automatically approve pre-authorised vehicles to enter a space and, when used in conjunction with a third party solution, direct those vehicles to VIP parking, for example. These cameras can also be used to flag any unauthorised vehicles for the benefit of system operators.

Correct positioning

An on-board LPR set-up tool helps security system installers to correctly position and angle the cameras for number plate capture. By entering the camera height and distance from the centre of the road, it’s easy to obtain the correct vertical, horizontal and roll angles to use.

In addition, a Road AI set-up wizard tool – itself part of the Road AI application – affords insight into the optimum plate capture area.

The TNO-7180RLP is IP66/IP6K9K, IK10+ and NEMA 4X rated for resisting water and dust and is vandal-proof. The camera can be used with PoE++, while an HPoE option is available.

A 12 V DC power supply is another option for greater resilience against unexpected power fluctuations and flexibility in installation.

*Further information is available online at https://hanwhavision.eu/product