NPS-ANPR

The NPS-ANPR is a open source LRP system developed to aid in the fight against crime in South Africa
The NPS-ANPR is a small camera and processor that analyse images captured by the camera and detect vehicle registration numbers, if a vehicle registration number is detected the processor will contact the CLOUD based servers and submit the plate for further analysis.
Our CLOUD based service is run at https://www.npscloud.co.za users can manage their OWN hotlists and notifications for there NPS-ANPR modules. The CLOUD servers is fully intergrated to the NP Tracker dataset of country wide community generated vehicle lookout reports.

Create your own ANPR system

To create your OWN ANPR saystem you will need the following:

1. Raspberry Pi 3
2. Raspberry Pi Camera
3. Raspberry Pi Power Supply
4. 8Gb Class10 SD storage card with ANRP-Software burned on the card
5. Enclosure (We need a plate bender to build and supply our own enclosures if you can help please contact us.)

Burn ANPR-Software onto SD Card

Download the ANPR-Software bundle to your local hard disk.
Download the SD burning software for your operating system here and burn the image to a SD Card.

Login and setup instructions

Bootup and login to the Raspberry Pi console

Edit and connect the Raspberry to your Wifi network

Reboot and find the Pi IP on your network. Find the wlan0 section and note the IP address (after the inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)

Setup and configure the ANRP software on the Raspberry Pi

Open a web browser and enter the IP address obtained above.

If you come across anything along the way that we haven’t covered, or if you know of a tip you think others would find handy, please let us know and we’ll see about including it in this guide.