Investigating reported license plate reads - Security Center 5.10

Using the Reads report, you can find license plate reads that were reported within a time range and geographic area. You can also perform vehicle analytics reporting for attributes such as vehicle color and vehicle type.

1. From the home page, open the Reads task.
2. To restrict your search to one or more specific areas, draw one or more regions in your map as follows:
   1. In the Filters tab, click the Region filter.
   2. Click Switch to map mode.
   3. In the Region filter, click Draw region.
   4. Drag your mouse pointer to create a box.
      A numbered Region box is created.
   5. To resize the region, drag the box handles.
   6. To move the region, hold down the mouse button and drag the box to a new location.
   7. Create other regions as required.
   8. Select the regions of interest.
      To view all the regions you created, click in the Filters tab.
3. Set up the other query filters for your report. Choose one or more of the following filters:

   Annotation fields

   Add one or more filters to refine the search results in the Reads report:

   {State Name}

   Select the plate state/province to investigate.

   {Confidence Score}

   Specify the desired accuracy percentage for the reads.

   {Relative Motion}

   Select whether the vehicle is moving away from or approaching the camera.

   {Speed}

   Specify a speed limit you want to investigate.

   {Character Height}

   Specify the desired pixel value.

   {Context}

   Select the LPR context you want to investigate.

   Generated a hit

   Include reads that generated a hit in the report.

   Hit rules

   Select the hit rules to include in the report.

   License plate

   Enter a full or partial license plate number. To enter multiple license plates, see Filtering a report with multiple license plates

   ALPR units - Patrollers

   Restrict the search to Genetec Patroller™ units (including all their fitted ALPR units) and ALPR units representing fixed Sharp cameras on the Genetec Patroller™ unit.

   Offload timestamp

   The date and time that the Genetec Patroller™ offloaded the reads/hits to Security Center.

   Protection status

   Restrict the search to protected or unprotected read events.

   Rule

   Hit rule that matched the plate read.

   Users

   Select the Patroller user name, or the Patrollers’ parent user groups.

   Vehicle color

   Enter a vehicle color. To investigate multiple vehicle colors, choose from one of the following methods:

   • Enter values separated by a semi-colon (;) or a comma (,)
   • Enter the first character and select values from the auto-complete suggestions in the drop-down menu

   Vehicle make

   Enter a vehicle make, for example, 'Toyota'. To investigate multiple vehicle makes, choose from one of the following methods:

   • Enter values separated by a semi-colon (;) or a comma (,)
   • Enter the first character and select values from the auto-complete suggestions in the drop-down menu

   Vehicle type

   Enter a vehicle type, for example, 'Truck'. To investigate multiple vehicle types, choose from one of the following methods:

   • Enter values separated by a semi-colon (;) or a comma (,)
   • Enter the first character and select values from the auto-complete suggestions in the drop-down menu

4. Click Generate report.
   The reads are listed in the report pane.
5. (Optional) To view high resolution images in the Plate image and Context image columns, expand the corresponding column width. For more information, see Customizing ALPR image quality displayed in report pane columns
6. View your query results in the canvas, in one of the following modes:

   tile mode

   To show the ALPR event in a tile, double-click or drag the item from the report pane to the canvas.

   map mode

   To locate an ALPR event on the map, double-click the item in the report pane.