Technical and organizational aspects of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System (ANPR)

Automatic Number Plate Recognition systems are already widespread over the world. Their performance, both with high computational efficiency of modern computers make them a very good solution to use in traffic supervision and management systems in the city and at the regional level in the scope of safety and security services. The most popular way of use ANPR systems concerns detection of violations in traffic law. In Poland implementation of ANPR systems is at the starting point. There is still a noticeable lack of integrated area solutions, and currently used ANPR systems could not reach their full potential. In the following article authors introduced basic problems of application of the ANPR systems in Poland due to the legal requirements. Moreover paper presents selected functional aspects of ANPR systems.