Best of ISC West 2014

This week at ISC West 2014 I visited many ALPR booths. This year there are lots of new exciting products that will revolutionize ALPR industry and in contrast many of the same old products just revamped.

Image Sensing Systems EX 140

At ISC West 2014 I was looking for ALPR products that was thrilling, innovative and revolutionary. I am glad to report that I found it. Image Sensing Systems (ISS) from Saint Paul Minnesota had the most innovative ALPR camera. The ES-140 which is all IP full HD ALPR camera. What makes this product exciting is it’s a PTZ ALPR camera.

I’ve deployed many ALPR systems and from a stand point of an installer, PTZ ALPR will shorten my installation time. But the biggest advantage of this PTZ ALPR camera is that it serves dual purpose. The camera can function as an IP PTZ camera as well as and overview camera for the ALPR image capture. Other features that got us excited was the built in processor. What this means is that the processing of the images are done right at the edge so are the analytics. Making this camera a true edge device product as well as an intelligent LPR camera. It also has a built-in (optional) 64GB SSD drive for those times connection to the server is lost, and 1.6GHz T56N Dual Core Processor. Plenty of horse power to preform advance analytics at the edge. The focal length of 10mm to 40mm zoom at 1080p with a frame rate of 50 fps is also something impressive and worth mentioning.

By the way, have I commented that this camera is a progressive scan camera? With progressive scan, an entire image frame is sent over a network and when displayed on a computer monitor, each line of an image is put on the screen one at a time in perfect order. Moving objects are, therefore, better presented on computer screens. Connecting this IP ALPR camera to your network is easy. First pick your communication. ISS covers everything from your basic RJ45 to wireless, WiFi, and serial connection. Configuration is simple and straight forward the staple of Image Sensing Systems.

ISS Ex 140

We were very impressed with what this IP ALPR camera has to offer on paper. We are looking forward to getting our hands on one of these to see how it preforms. Image Sensing Systems say is due to be released late 3rd quarter. List price is somewhere around 15k and 20k per unit.

Companies like Image Sensing Systems and others whom I met at ISC West 2014 are what gets me excited. Pushing the envelope of technology, product improvements, challenging themselves to solve the true issues and developing products that are solution driven. This is what makes ISC West.