Cost of ANPR system for crime prevention?

[Marcellus]

We live on a private close with a single entrance and chatting to a few neighbours we were wondering abiut the cost and feasabiliity of installing an ANPR system to data log all vehicles coming/going.

Does anyone have any knowledge/experience?

[jamoor]

How many houses are there?

[Marcellus]

35

[jamoor]

Seems like a fair few, isn't a CCTV camera a better option? Rather a video than a list of registrations numbers, one of which may be a delivery driver

[jondude]

Also I am not sure the DVLA will give you details of the car owner anyhow (if you need them). They are not very helpful towards the public - big companies, parking enforcement etc, yes.

Might be worthwhile checking with them before you go to the expense of it all...only to find it irrelevant.

[Marcellus]

Possibly, but also if there is an issue relatively easy to discount.

Perhaps we should cost the each and both options.

[Sloan85]

Why anpr over recorded cctv? What will you do with a list of number plates?

[matjk]

I’d think it would be a waste of time and money, we have good cctv on our industrail est , we got the ref of the vehicle involved but it was on stolen or cloned plates !
I would think it would be better for individuals to all stick up cctv at £150 a pop , a would be theif would probably be a bit reluctant to enter such and estate with so many eyes on him and just go to the next one !
Another industrial est near us had a ANPR camera up, it flashed your number plate up on a big led sign , weirdly it had 4 entrances and only one camera , last time I drove past it wasn’t working and apparently is stopped 6 years ago!
You could pop over to Stevenage and steal it , doubt it would be missed and they would know your reg

[Vibes]

Some HIKVISION CCTV Cameras have the functionality built in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z6VyFzax7c

[BugLebowski]

ANPR is really for processing a large amount of data in a format which can be easily searched or analysed. Unless you have thousands of cars in and out you would be better off with a high quality CCTV system which can be checked when necessary.

[cadmunkey]

Plenty of CCTV on my estate, and the several car thefts/burglaries we have had where the thieves have arrived in a car they have all been false plates. So ANPR would probably prove useless anyway.

[JulianHJ]

As above, a decent commercial CCTV system (such as Hikvision) would be far more useful.

[Ed.]

Seems like an over complicated way to find out who pays what for the resurfacing.

[Marcellus]

Ok, so cctv with some sort of anpr capability.... Anyone any ballpark on costs?

[matjk]

Don’t waste money on anpr just cctv , IF something hapens look at it and read the numberplate at the required time slot !

[matjk]

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Samsung-XNO-6120R-FNP-2M-...

[JulianHJ]

Marcellus said:

Ok, so cctv with some sort of anpr capability.... Anyone any ballpark on costs?

Give these guys a shout, they're very helpful: www.cctvtek.co.uk