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- Page 1 ANPR ACCESS ANPR ACCESS HD installation guide 24-10-2014 | v4.1...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Content CONTENT 1 INTRODUCTION _______________________________________________________ 4 TYPICAL APPLICATIONS __________________________________________ 4 KEY FEATURES __________________________________________________ 4 2 GETTING STARTED _____________________________________________________ 5 MOUNTING THE ANPR ____________________________________________ 5 CONNECTING THE ANPR __________________________________________ 5 ASSIGNING AN IP-ADDRESS _______________________________________ 5 TESTING THE ANPR ______________________________________________ 5... - Page 3 ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Content 5.2.10 STATISTICS ______________________________________________ 26 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION _______________________________________ 27 5.3.1 NETWORK _______________________________________________ 27 5.3.2 HTTP USERS _____________________________________________ 27 5.3.3 RS485 SERIAL PORT ______________________________________ 28 5.3.4 FIRMWARE / LIBRARY _____________________________________ 29 5.3.5 DEVICE INFO ____________________________________________ 29 5.3.6 DIGITAL I/O _____________________________________________ 30...
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Page 4: Introduction
INTRODUCTION The NEDAP ANPR License Plate Reader offers automatic number plate reading. The NEDAP ANPR is an all in one camera including camera, analyzer and IR illuminator. The ANPR has embedded processing software onboard. The License Plate Reader is default featured with an RS485 and Ethernet communication. Wiegand is possible using the separate available Wiegand Interface Module. -
Page 5: Getting Started
Determine how to mount the ANPR. Onto a pole or behind the barrier. Mount behind the barrier to ensure recognition right in front of the barrier. Important mounting issues are: Best focus distance is between 3 and 6 meters (for ANPR Access HD between 6 and 10 meters). -
Page 6: Installation
To be sure of safety, do not modify or add anything other than mentioned in this manual or indicated by NEDAP N.V. CAUTION: for continued protection against risk of fire, replace fuses only with the same type and rating. -
Page 7: Behind Barrier Mounting
ANPR is at bumper height (0.5m height) about 2 to 3 meters behind the barrier. A vehicle just in front of the barrier is still recognized in that case. Figure 3: Behind the barrier mounting (ANPR Access) Figure 4: Behind the barrier mounting (ANPR Access HD) 7/36... -
Page 8: Dimensions
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Installation DIMENSIONS 76.5 M4x12 (6x) Figure 5: ANPR housing dimensions 60° max 60° max Figure 6: Mounting bracket dimensions 8/36... -
Page 9: Connections
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Connections CONNECTIONS The ANPR is delivered with two 5m long cables. Power supply, RS485 communication and I/O are combined in one cable. Ethernet network is a second cable. The cables are pre-fitted to the ANPR. For installation the ANPR does not need to be opened. -
Page 10: Configuration
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration CONFIGURATION USING THE WEB SERVER Prior to accessing the ANPR using a Browser, make sure the PC network configuration is coherent with the IP-address of the device to access. E.g.: if the ANPR IP-address is 192.168.0.21, the PC in use should have assigned an IP-address belonging to the same class (e.g. -
Page 11: Number Plate Reader Configuration
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration NUMBER PLATE READER CONFIGURATION 5.2.1 GENERAL The ANPR system can operate in three different modes: FREE RUN mode TRIGGER by digital input mode (see chapter 5.2.5 about how to setup the digital input to trigger the ANPR). -
Page 12: Camera Ocr
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration The General Settings page contains the following configuration fields: Enable Engine: It allows enabling/disabling the processing of the images grabbed by ANPR. The parameter takes two possible values: YES or NO. If set to NO, the device is switched to stand-by mode and its infrared illuminator is disabled. -
Page 13: Single-Point
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Single-point Gain: Indicates the gain of the vehicle signal. Shutter us: Indicates the exposure time in microseconds. Strobe us: Activation time of the infrared illuminator in microseconds. Multi-point In this section it is possible to set the parameters for the multi-point grabbing mode. -
Page 14: Camera Context
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration 5.2.3 CAMERA CONTEXT This page displays the color image grabbing camera settings used for shooting context images. Enable: Select YES to enable a context camera. IP Address: The context camera IP address. Protocol: Select context camera protocol: STANDARD: Vega network context camera protocol. -
Page 15: Plate Locator
Sets the sesnitivity of the car plate search algorithm. Allowed values are NORMAL, AUTO or HIGH. Default value is NORMAL. Please leave this setting unchanged unless instructed by Nedap. Incorrect values may cause longer calculations and lower overall performance. Char Size Pixel These parameters represent the size of the plate characters the OCR video camera is to recognize. -
Page 16: Procedure For Adjusting The Character Size Settings
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Procedure for adjusting the character size settings: Note In the Camera OCR page, take a shot of the number plate under the actual Character size adjustment is conditions later used in the ANPR system. -
Page 17: Advanced Features
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration 1000ms interval to expire). The images subsequently acquired and processed must be related to the new event. The MaxTimeTransit value should be set to the highest possible value while of course complying with the specific installation requirements. -
Page 18: Check List
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration edge). Inactivity time ms: Specifies the minimum time between two consecutive triggers. If a trigger is received before this time is expired it will be discarded. Median filter size: Allows to set the window size over which the median filter is calculated. -
Page 19: General
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration General Enable: Enables the use of the check list. List Location: Select the check list location. FFS is the ANPR internal Flash File System. FTP refers to a list residing on an external server. - Page 20 ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Stop trigger: Stop trigger event (either digital or ethernet). System alarm: System diagnostic alarm events as configured in system diagnostics configuration. The matrix contains the following icons (no icon is shown in case the event/action pair is not possible): Icon indicating that the corresponding action is assigned to the event.
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Page 21: Action: Send Image Ftp
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Action: Send Image FTP This function allows saving the images of vehicle detected by the ANPR to a remote ftp-server. See chapter 4.1 for details about connecting the ethernet interface. Enable: Select YES to enable save image to an ftp-server. -
Page 22: Action: Save Db Ftp (Send Data To Ftp Database)
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration information. Click the Help-button to check the supported tags. FTP IP: The ftp-server IP address. FTP Username: Username of the ftp-server user. FTP Password: Password of the ftp-server user. FTP Port: Port number of the ftp- server. Usually port number 21. -
Page 23: Action: Pulse Out
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration FTP LINK: Click on this FTP-LINK to directly access the ftp-server. This hyperlink uses the FTP parameters entered above. This is useful to check whether the ftp-server is operating properly. Action: Pulse Out If enabled, activates a digital output for a specified time period. See chapter 4.4 for details about the digital outputs. - Page 24 ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration number plate number, date and time) or the JPEG image of the vehicle: %IMAGE_BW. The data is sent on the network using a message header that includes the overall number of data contained in the message.
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Page 25: Action: Sd Saving (Save Image To Sd Memory)
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Standard message format - Network packet tag-field format Value Length (in bytes) Description <TAG-ID> Tag-identifier <TAG-LEN> Tag-size in bytes <TAG- <TAG-LEN> Tag field contents DATA> In the web interface it is possible to select the tags to attach to the message sent to the TCP server. -
Page 26: Action: Tcp Message 2
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Action: TCP Message 2 If enabled, this action will send a message to a TCP/IP socket connection. This action is identical to the TCP MESSAGE action described in chapter 0, but can be used to messages to a second host. -
Page 27: System Configuration
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration SYSTEM CONFIGURATION 5.3.1 NETWORK The Network Settings page contains the following configuration fields: Network NetBiosName It allows setting the name of the ANPR device. It is possible to enter alphanumeric values in this field. Spaces must be represented by "_"... -
Page 28: Rs485 Serial Port
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration 5.3.3 RS485 SERIAL PORT It is possible to send messages to the RS485 serial port. The messages must be enabled in the Events / Actions settings table. Tags are used to define the content of the message sent. -
Page 29: Firmware / Library
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration 5.3.4 FIRMWARE / LIBRARY It is possible to update the ANPR firmware library. The firmware library is one file, containing the ANPR operating system, recognition library and configuration. The installed recognition library supports all European countries. The firmware package file is distributed as a .bin-file. -
Page 30: Digital I/O
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration Status Memory = OK Status Process = OK Status Time Synchro = OK Status OCR Camera = OK Status Plate Reader = OK 5.3.6 DIGITAL I/O The ANPR has a number of embedded digital inputs and outputs. Outputs are used for external monitoring devices or for example control an electronic door lock. -
Page 31: Secure Digital
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Configuration 5.3.8 SECURE DIGITAL SD memory management is entirely automatic and transparent by the ANPR firmware. SD memory is used to store data of ANPR generated events. The storage occurs only if the action planned for the event can't be executed. -
Page 32: Atcp Tag Identifier Overview
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE TCP Tag identifier overview TCP TAG IDENTIFIER OVERVIEW Tag web Description Tag-id Tag-len Data type %DATE Date string YYYY-MM-DD. E.g. '2011-07-28' 14000 STRING %TIME Time string HH-MM-SS. E.g. '12-34-56' 14001 STRING %NETBIOSNAME NetBiosName. E.g. 'NEDAP_ANPR1'... - Page 33 ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE TCP Tag identifier overview %GAIN Image acquisation gain 14030 INT32 %STROBO Image acquisation strobo time in 14031 INT32 microseconds %VEHICLE_TYPE Vehicle type description based on plate 14032 STRING format: UNKNOWN, PASS, PRIV_TR , TAXI, MOTO, PUBL_TR, EXPORT, DIPLOMATIC, TRAILER, DEALER, IMPORT, …...
- Page 34 ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE TCP Tag identifier overview which the last 2 are 0. The tag-len field will contain the number 11 meaning that the useful bytes in the payload are only the first 11 bytes. Example 2: %IMAGE_BW contains a image data buffer of IMG-DIM 34231 bytes. The data buffer is aligned to 4 bytes and the will therefore have exactly 34232 bytes.
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Page 35: Bdisclaimer
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Disclaimer DISCLAIMER This information is furnished for guidance, and with no guarantee as to its accuracy or completeness; its publication conveys no license under any patent or other right, nor does the publisher assume liability for any consequence of its use; specifica- tions and availability of goods mentioned in it are subject to change without notice;... -
Page 36: Cdocument Revision
ANPR ACCESS | INSTALLATION GUIDE Document revision DOCUMENT REVISION Version Date Comment 24-10-2014 Added ANPR Access HD 13-02-2014 Layout adjusted to new corporate style. 17-09-2013 Updated tcp tag id list in appendix A and added system diagnostics. 12-02-2013 Firmware library update better explained...