ALPR Mobile Solution

Federal Signal's Mobile ALPR system is the leader in license-plate recognition systems. Built with PIPS Technology's patents to provide the most accurate OCRs (Optical Character Recognition) resulting in increased number of 'hits' and improved officer safety and efficiency. 

SLATE Cameras
Dual lens, low-profile Slate® cameras capture a color image of each vehicle while an infrared lens captures the license plate. Designed to be permantently mounted to a lightbar or available as a portable application, Slate cameras use  PIPS' patented TripleFlash and PlateFinder technologies to deliver the most accurate OCRs.

• TripleFlash™: Exclusive to PIPS Technology, TripleFlash varies the flash, shutter and gain settings of the camera to capture three plate images. Only the image determined to produce the hightest quality is sent in for processing, ensuring optimum performance regardless of light or weather conditions.

• PlateFinder™: Exclusive to PIPS Technology, PlateFinder is a sophisticated firmware that continually searches the camera's field of view for the presence of a license plate.

• Dual Lens Camera: As a license plate is detected, the dual lens camera is triggered to capture a color image of the vehicle and an infrared images of the lincense plate. Infrared lens are able to see license plates regardless of sun glare, darkness or other adverse conditions.

• Optical Character Recognition: Unlike some ALPR systems, the PIPS Technology system does not use a generic OCR engine for all states and regions. PIPS uses a customized OCR engine specific to the state or region of interest. Our OCR engines are very tolerant of skewed and off-axis plate reads, various plate sizes, syntax rules and designs. 

PAGIS - Software
PAGIS® (Police ALPR Graphical Interface System) is a patrol-car based license plate recognition software, patented by PIPS Technology, to improve officer's safety and effectiveness compared to traditional manual license plate entrees.
 • Captures and decodes a license plate, identifies plates of interest and alerts users of a 'hit'
 • High-accuracy ALPR software with optical character recognition (OCR)
 • OCR optimized by state or jurisdiction
 • Instantly checks plates against specified databases (NCIC, felony warrants, amber alerts, local hot lists, etc.)

BOSS - Software
BOSS® (Back Office System Software) enables users to organize and archive the vast amount of data generated by both mobile and fixed units. BOSS stores all captured license plate data in a central location to support data analysis, data queries and reporting to assist law enforcement investigations. In addition, BOSS is capable of mapping all locations associated to a particular plate in order to track vehicle movement.

SuperRex III Processor
The SuperRex III Processor stores the data from the PAGIS and sends an alert to the officer's laptop when a vehicle of interest is identified. This ALPR processor is stored in the trunk of the police vehicle.