Milestone LPR 1.0 - Manual (Page 5)

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LPR 1.0 Administrator's Manual
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Product overview
License plate recognition (LPR) is video-based content analysis (VCA) and recognition of vehicle
license plates. To read the characters in question, LPR uses optical character recognition on images
aided by specialized camera settings.
With XProtect LPR, Milestone provides an intelligent yet highly intuitive solution for interaction with
your XProtect Corporate or XProtect Enterprise and your XProtect Smart Client. It lets you easily
combine LPR with other XProtect surveillance features, such as recording, event-based activation of
outputs, etc.
An event in XProtect LPR can, for example, trigger surveillance system recordings in a particular
quality, match against positive/negative lists, open gates, switch on lights, push video of incidents to
computer screens of particular members of security staff, send mobile phone text messages, and it
can do this all at once.
XProtect LPR is therefore highly interesting in areas such as, transportation, industry and government,
etc.
XProtect LPR also works in tight integration with solutions delivered by independent partners based on
the Milestone Integration Platform (MIP). Note that such solutions may impact the performance of your
XProtect Corporate or XProtect Enterprise.
This document is aimed at administrators and provides detailed descriptions of how to install and
configure XProtect LPR.
This manual also covers XProtect Express, XProtect Professional and XProtect NVR. If you you are
using XProtect LPR with one of these Milestone products, just replace all instances of XProtect
Corporate or XProtect Enterprise with the name of your XProtect surveillance setup.