Number plate recognition cameras (ANPR)

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RE-BCC7Y
Water-proof IR camera for number plate recognition of non-moving vehicles at 10 m.
(optimal distance)

RE-BCC8YH
Water-proof IR camera for number plate recognition of vehicles moving up to 180 Km/h at 5-30 m.
(optimal distance)

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The Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is nowadays required by several CCTV applications. From company's access controls to petrol station surveillance, the clear recognition of car's license plate may add a great value to  CCTV video-recording systems.

State-of-the-art technologies make RE-BCC7Y and RE-BCC8YH the most advanced plate recognition cameras available today.
Include one or more of these cameras in your CCTV system and you will be sure that the car plate of all vehicles will be stored in your videorecorder, never mind if it is day or night, headlight on or off, low or high speed.

Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR)
Reading a vehicle number plate is a too difficult job for a standard CCTV camera. The main problem is the exposure caused by headlight at night, but even during the day the light reflection on the number plate can make a clear number recognition virtually impossible.
RE-BCC7Y and RE-BCC8YH are special cameras, which have been specifically designed for car plate recognition, also called ANPR.
RE-BCC7Y - for non-moving vehicles or max. 30 Km/h
RE-BCC8YH - for moving vehicles max. 180 Km/h

Extra light compensation
To avoid exposure caused by headlight these cameras use infrared light to compensates the visible light coming from the vehicle towards the camera.
To do so, the camera come with built-in IR illuminator and 2 CSD light sensors: one on the front, towards the vehicle, and the other on the back, sensing the effective light of the environment. When fixing the camera, please be sure the back light sensor is not covered by obstacles.

Visible light Cut-filter for plate recognition
As all DSE long-range IR cameras, these cameras include the ICR function (Infrared Cut-filter Removable), a mechanical system that removes the IR cut-filter at night and enhance the sensitivity of the camera to the IR illumination.
Besides the IRC function, RE-BCC7Y and RE-BCC8YH are able to replace the IR filter with a visible light cut-filter, in order to inhibit strong visible light from headlights reaching the CCD of the camera. During night view, this avoid exposure caused by car's headlights.
Here below is the spectrum of RE-BCC7Y at night view with visible light cut-filter: only wave length over 800 nm reach the camera.

High resolution camera
Being developed for number recognition RE-BCC7Y and RE-BCC8YH cameras have been designed using the best CCTV components available today. Sony SuperHAD CCD, 550 TV lines extra high resolution, DSP chip with S/N ratio over 52 dB. 

The infrared illuminator
Plate recognition cameras use IR illumination to read car's plate.
RE-BCC7Y comes with Day/Night function and delivers color images while there is enough light to do so. When darkness falls the illuminator comes on automatically and the camera turns to B/W.
RE-BCC8YH, designed for high speed plate recognition, is a pure monochrome camera and gives always B/W video.
Here is the LED setup of the cameras:
RE-BCC7Y - 12 Maxi IR LED's color day/night
RE-BCC8YH - 20 Maxi IR LED's B/W

ATTENTION. The RE-BCC7Y/RE-BCC8YH IR illuminator is specifically designed for number plate illumination and cannot illuminate the rest of the scene which will not be visible as shown in the sample frames on the left.
For a general night view, it is possible to install any of the standard DSE IR cameras which do not effect the number plate reading function of these cameras.

The optimum viewing distance
These ANPR cameras can read both front and back car plate. They must be placed as much as possible in front of the vehicle, but being this virtually impossible, the angle between the camera and the car direction should not exceed 30°. Cameras are focused for optimal view at the following distance:
RE-BCC7Y - 10 m. from the lens
RE-BCC8YH - 5-30 m. from the lens
It is recommended to install the camera respecting the optimal distance from the target, because this will provide  the best reading performance. Nevertheless the cameras can read the car plates even at different distance if this is demanded by the application.

The speed of the vehicle
Choosing among the 2 models depends on the speed of the vehicles.
RE-BCC7Y - Non-moving vehicles or slow moving vehicles up to 30 Km/h. Recommended applications: Petrol station, Gate access control.
RE-BCC8YH - Fast moving vehicles up to 180 Km/h. Recommended applications: Traffic control.

The lens
The camera RE-BCC7YH for non-moving cars come with a fixed type lens, therefore it is necessary to respect the optimal distance form the target as much as possible. The camera RE-BCC8YH for fast moving cars has an adjustable lens in order to better suit the target distance.
RE-BCC7Y - 16 mm fixed lens
RE-BCC8YH - 10-40 mm varifocal lens

Waterproof housing
These cameras come inside a robust, completely waterproof aluminum casing which guarantees a protection level of IP67, meaning that the camera can be exposed to rain and outdoor conditions (see the IP table in the tutorial on housings).

Audio
Waterproof cameras do not come with a microphone. If you require audio, you can connect an external microphone which is easily fitted between the camera and the Audio/Video connector cable.

Bracket
All cameras includes swivel bracket for wall-mounting. Both video and power cable runs through the bracket in order to avoid outdoor cabling.

Wiring
Like any other hard-wired cameras, these cameras can be connected directly to TV sets, monitor or videorecorders by means of a video cable (BNC Video OUT).
On the back of the camera a 50 cm. m cable includes: power supply 12VDC plug, and video output (BNC female).
To power the camera a regulated 220VAC / 12VDC power adaptor (min 2A) like model RE-AL5 can be used (not included).
To connect the camera to the monitor or DVR you can use RG59 coaxial cable or twisted pairs using the appropriate twisted pair converters.
By connecting the camera to an external transmitter like RE-TX2A, it can be integrated into a RadioEye® wireless system.
For less experienced users, and those who would like to refresh their knowledge, the tutorials section contains a number of lessons on how to wire and install a hard-wired CCTV system.

The product includes:
  Waterproof camera with lens
  Swivel bracket for wall-mounting
  Video and power cable

NOTE: These cameras are supplied without power adaptor, which must be ordered separately, if required.