A hotlist is a list of the vehicles that you want to identify and investigate. You can create one or more hotlists in the AutoVu Cloudrunner™ system.
When an ALPR camera detects a license plate, the plate number is matched against all
active hotlists in the Cloudrunner system. Positive
matches (hits) are highlighted in Live monitoring task and
Vehicle Search report.
- Only users with Manage hotlists privilege can access hotlists.
- A hotlist text file contains a list of plate numbers of each vehicle that you want to monitor.
- A valid entry in the text file must contain the plate number followed by a delimiter or a have a valid fixed length separating fields.
- You can create multiple hotlists for different purposes, for example, amber alerts, wanted vehicles, or stolen vehicles.
- You can delete a plate number from a hotlist in Cloudrunner. To add a plate number, you must update and re-import the plate list text file. For more information, see Modifying hotlists.
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NOTE: Cloudrunner tries to account for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors for characters that looks similar, such as 8 and B. For example, if the hotlist includes the plate number ABC123, and the ALPR camera detects the plate, but incorrectly reads A8C123, it still generates a hit for ABC123.
In the following example, each entry in the license plate TXT file contains the license plate number, followed by a semicolon, followed by the plate state.
Hotlist status
The following table describes the different statuses available for a hotlist:
| Status | Displayed when |
|---|---|
| Ready | All the entries in the hotlist are valid. NOTE: This is the default status
when you create a new hotlist with no entries.
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| In Progress | There is a huge volume of entries to be processed. |
| Warning | There are some invalid entries in the hotlist. |
| Error | There are no valid entries in the hotlist. |
NOTE: You need to manually refresh the page to view the current hotlist
status.
NCIC hotlist
When you use the NCIC template for hotlists, the system parses the
strings fully and generates the relevant fields. The following image illustrates a
completely parsed NCIC hotlist:
