Today we bring you an extremely useful API to manage and account for vehicles through the recognition of vehicle license plates in 2023.
What is License Plate Recognition?
It is a tool that, starting from an image, can process it to count and identify different vehicles according to the assigned task, be it, for example, approving entry to a parking lot or identifying a vehicle with an arrest warrant.
How does this API work?
This API converts optical data from license plates into digital information using optical character recognition to extract license plates from photos and videos.
You will be able to monitor the number of times a vehicle appears, how long it remains at a specific location and other information with the help of this License Plate Recognition API.
Building a License Plate Recognition Algorithm to understand all license plates is difficult: distinctive qualities of each region (country or state) must be taken into account for a proper final decision; we must examine every form of license plate available in the world and incorporate their peculiarities into our algorithm.
We should strive for a real-time accuracy rate of 100% in order to make License Plate Recognition a trustworthy solution; this goal is beyond the scope of human programming: Imagine being able to instantly and flawlessly identify every plate from every country from every perspective.
This License Plate Recognition API will receive an image URL where the license plate is visible, and you will receive a JSON object with all the data in it.
But, what is a JSON?
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. JSON is easy to read and write for users. JSON is easy for machines to parse and generate. JSON is based on a subset of the JavaScript programming language.
How can we benefit from License Plate Recognition?
Numerous applications are made possible by the license plate data collected through License Plate Recognition, enabling businesses and governments to create more informed and efficient regulations, improve customer service, and lessen air pollution all at once.
The key to License Plate Recognition API´s success is the fact that it helps both businesses and their customers. Faster, frictionless, touchless parking improves the customer experience while businesses cut expenses and boost revenues.
Another use for this License Plate Recognition API is stolen vehicle detection.
Suppose our vehicle is stolen, every minute that passes is valuable time lost in the search to recover it.
With this API it would be a matter of a few seconds to load the data of the plate license in the base and alert this theft in the entire area where there is coverage and surveillance by means of cameras on public roads.
It would greatly facilitate the work of the local police and save a lot of money for the search since the officers would not have to go out looking for each stolen vehicle, the cameras would do that job and notify the authorities immediately, as if by magic.
Also published on Medium.