ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) is an acronym you’ll sometimes see out on the roads on signs or even written on police cars. But what is ANPR, beyond what it stands for?

Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) systems don’t need suspicious behavior to identify wanted vehicles. They can scan 240 plates a minute; check them against databases of drivers with expired ...

Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars or on objects like road signs and bridges, use small, high-speed cameras to photograph thousands of plates per minute. The information captured ...