New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to revamp New York City’s bridges and tunnels, including equipping 10 bridges and tunnels leading into the city with facial recognition and license plate reading technology.
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This upgraded, software-only Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) solution includes high-definition capabilities, processing all images in full color instead of black and white.
The retention of license plate reader data for years or indefinitely is one of the ACLU's main concerns on the data's collection, especially for people who have broken no laws.
LA's Automatic License Plate Readers can record as many as 1,800 license plates per minute, but critics of the program say it gives authorities a huge database on the actions of ordinary citizens.
Sometimes it can be difficult to measure how well a security system is working. “You can’t measure crimes that aren’t committed,” says Steve Reed, security director at Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, Calif.
While a megapixel camera can provide long-distance, precise detail in surveillance applications, does that detail expand to the edges of the monitor display, or is the license plate on the edge of the screen out of focus?
CMOS-based cameras are very good for some surveillance applications, but the inherent ‘rolling shutter’ technology limits their effectiveness when capturing license plate details on moving vehicles.
My first meeting with security executives in Chicago in the early 1980s included some of those attendees getting into a fist fight, due in great part to the “two-fer” beverage policy at the now and should-have-been-then-closed policy of the Chicago Millionaire’s Club. No doubt, it’s good to see passion. But, overall, security has been in an obvious struggle within their organizations for many years, more often over budgets.
