Other names Edit

ANPR is sometimes known by various other terms: Automatic (or automated) license plate recognition (ALPR)

(ALPR) Automatic (or automated) license plate reader (ALPR)

(ALPR) Automatic vehicle identification (AVI)

(AVI) Car plate recognition (CPR)

(CPR) License plate recognition (LPR)

(LPR) Lecture automatique de plaques d'immatriculation (LAPI)

(LAPI) Mobile license plate reader (MLPR)

(MLPR) Vehicle license plate recognition (VLPR)

(VLPR) Vehicle recognition identification (VRI)

Development Edit

ANPR was invented in 1976 at the Police Scientific Development Branch in the United Kingdom.[citation needed] Prototype systems were working by 1979, and contracts were awarded to produce industrial systems, first at EMI Electronics, and then at Computer Recognition Systems (CRS) in Wokingham, UK. Early trial systems were deployed on the A1 road and at the Dartford Tunnel. The first arrest through detection of a stolen car was made in 1981.[citation needed] However, ANPR did not become widely used until new developments in cheaper and easier to use software were pioneered during the 1990s. The collection of ANPR data for future use (i.e., in solving then-unidentified crimes) was documented in the early 2000s.[3] The first documented case of ANPR being used to help solve a murder occurred in November 2005, in Bradford, UK, where ANPR played a vital role in locating and subsequently convicting killers of Sharon Beshenivsky.[4]

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