Tue, Apr 13th 2021 12:50pm
Tim Cushing
There s a new player in the automated license plate reader arena. Rekor Systems is a bit different. While it does sell its own cameras, it also sells software that turns existing cameras into plate readers. It recently contributed a couple of sponsored posts to Police1 touting its ability to fight all sorts of dangerous crime.
Rekor’s system makes it easy for officers to detect and apprehend stolen/wanted vehicles. But ease of use is just the beginning: By apprehending stolen/wanted cars sooner, police departments can actually prevent crime.
About three-quarters of crimes involving the use of a motor vehicle before, during or after the offense are committed using a stolen vehicle.
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Officials Use COVID To Create Statewide Vehicle Surveillance Programs Run By Rekor Systems
Published: April 8, 2021
Cash-strapped states are using COVID as an excuse to create AI-driven vehicle recognition or license plate reader surveillance programs.
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Rekor Systems president and CEO Robert Berman proudly boasts, because our technology works so well for vehicle recognition, we do more, we identify the vehicle s make, model, color, body type, bumper stickers or window decals, rust, dents and other things like speed of travel and vehicle direction. (approximately 2.40 of the video.)
Berman revealed that fast-food restaurants are using
Rekor s vehicle surveillance program because it helps the folks who are making the food to do it more efficiently claiming that it helps companies like Starbucks, ID customers who order the same thing everyday.
Photo: marcoventuriniautieri/Getty Images
In March, the president of Rekor Systems Inc., Robert Berman, told investors that 2020 was a “transformative year.” The surveillance tech company’s platform, Rekor One, which converts regular cameras into automated license plate readers (ALPR), had proven alluring to cash-strapped state governments during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Oklahoma, which has seen its tax revenue plummet alongside falling oil prices, announced a statewide rollout of Rekor One in November to track uninsured motorists. “The platform allows for real-time detection of non-compliant vehicles,” Rekor wrote in a press release, “and instant data consolidation into a regularly updating insurance database connected to the state’s enforcement programs.”