I need to set one up in a rural area, where there is zero light. We want to capture the license plate of cars at night moving about 15-20km/hr up the driveway
The camera will be pole mounted approx 30meters to 50meters from where we want to film
Require PoE, IP67/IK10 and PTZ.
Any suggestions? Budget is around $1100 Australian dollars. Going into Blue Iris
LPR is a bit tricky. Lost of variables will help decide what camera/lens.
Distance, Angle, speed.. as long as you have a good angle from camera to plate (less than 30degrees, straight on is ideal) based on your info, Id want a 50mm lens or bigger.
I'm in a rural area, zero light @ night.
As bigredfish suggests the Z12's are a sold choice for LPR. I am using both Z12 models to capture plates at the same distance as you need. they are around $300 AUD each.
Can you post google image of you driveway? It might help with PTZ selection.
Unless you have 2 cameras covering area this you will have to choose between capturing licence plates (right image) or capturing the vehicle (left image) and probably no licence plate details.
The way I have setup is the Dahua HFW5231E-Z12 for the LPR and I am now doing Dahua HFW5241E-Z12 for overview of the cars. You will need an overview specially at night.
These cameras are great to capture plates and also You can configure open alpr on a PC so you will have 2 days of data on the cloud .. Meaning plate numbers..
You can also get more than 2 days However I have not set that up myself so Do not have details on how exactly that is done. But I do have it running on cloud for 2 days with openalpr. Now Blueiris also started doing LPR stuff which is great...
Here is a 5213 In action in day time..
Another one at night
Hope this helps I think these camera go above and beyond what they are priced at
Those images look good! I think you're right, two would be advisable for this location. One for the overall area, one for the plate! Thanks for the info Pinko, very helpful!
Ive no idea on cost, I can find any info. It may be more
Just remember Auto tracking is a bit of a gimmick. It works ok, but by having a second camera, you can call in the PTZ to a preset position as soon as your dedicated gate cam (or any other cam) is triggered.
Most of the time tracking works well. I find that on occasions, when a target gets to close to the camera (like a car passing right underneath the camera) then it may get confused, concentrating on some random part of the car instead of the whole car, other time it just loses the object it 's tracking.
The AI in Newer PTZ's are able to identify cars and people as objects, tracking should work better in newer PTZ's I've got older and newer PTZ's but have not done comparative tracking tests.
I'm sure a large part of the issue, comes down to user setting and rules set on camera. If you have them right, the autotracking works much better.
