CARMEN® Parking Lane
ANPR Software

CARMEN<sup>®</sup> Parking Lane - Number Plate Recognition software

CARMEN® Parking Lane is a special version of CARMEN® ANPR technology. It can be used for one or two lanes of access control systems.

With integration CARMEN® Parking Lane into parking management systems, it becomes possible to automate vehicle entry to and exit from a car park or a secure zone and to use the recognised registration number for inventory management.

The usage of CARMEN® Parking Lane with our specially designed ANPR camera set - equipped and synchronised with a IR flash - provides accurate and quick identification of vehicles without human assistance. .

The CARMEN® Parking Lane ANPR engine and its SDK is specially developed for parking management applications where automatic identification of vehicles is needed.

Technical specifications of
CARMEN® Parking Lane ANPR software
Supported Operating Systems · Windows 7
· Windows Vista (32bit only)
· Windows XP
· Windows 2003
· Windows 2000
Programming Languages · Visual C/C++
· Borland Delphi
· Visual Basic .NET
· C#
· Java
Software Development Kit · DLLs, ActiveX components, OCX files
Type of Plates · Recognition is country and font independent
· Any Latin, Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Cyrillic characters can be recognized
· State/country region recognition (optional)
Image Input · Still image from memory of file (BMP,JPEG,JPEG2000)
· Live analogue video input (PAL or NTSC)
Trigger · Trigger is needed for starting the recognition
(key press, inductive loop, IR barrier, IR sensor etc.)
Limitation: one recognition per channel in every three seconds (3 sec delay between two recongnition processes on the same channel)
Processing time dependences · Image quality (complexity, noise level, etc.)
· Image size
· Processing power (CPU speed)
· Parameter settings
Output · Plate number in ASCII/UNICODE
· Position of plate
· Positions of characters
· Tip list for each characters
· Confidence levels for each tips
· Colour of plate (optional)
· Country ID (optional)
· Locating more plates on one image
Documentation · Reference manual in electronic format
System Requirements · Intel, PIII 1 GHz or higher Intel CPU (128MB RAM)
· Free PCI (2.1) / PC104+ slot
Licensing · 1 licence required per camera channel