Other Uses
ANPR systems may also be used for/by:
- Section control, to measure average vehicle speed over longer distances.
- Border crossings
- Automobile repossessions
- petrol stations to log when a motorist drives away without paying for their fuel.
- A marketing tool to log patterns of use
- Targeted advertising, a-la "Minority Report"-style billboards.
- Traffic management systems, which determine traffic flow using the time it takes vehicles to pass two ANPR sites
- Analyses of travel behaviour (route choice, origin-destination etc.) for transport planning purposes
- Drive Through Customer Recognition, to automatically recognize customers based on their license plate and offer them the items they ordered the last time they used the service, improving service to the customer.
- To assist visitor management systems in recognizing guest vehicles.
- Police and Auxiliary Police
- Car parking companies.
- Hotels.
Read more about this topic: Automatic Number Plate Recognition