Car Counter (incoming / outgoing) and license plate recognition
reddit / selfhosted

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Euphoric_Hunter_9859 · 2023-12-06 13:06

Hi everyone,

we have a little parking lot underneath our building (is it called
garage in english?) and I want to count how many cars enter and leave
the garage.


I stumpled across Viseron NVR and want to use it for license plate
recognition (will forward the license plates via mqtt and open the
garage door with it).

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Anyone knows if it is possible to count cars with this solution or any
other ideas where to look at? I am really into opensource and
selfhosting so I am not afraid of investing some hours into a possible
solution.

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kaipee · 2023-12-06 16:47

Is it legal? You'll be recording people and their vehicles, and
effectively tracking their movement

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BCIT_Richard · 2023-12-06 18:23

At the risk of sounding stupid, how could it not be legal?

They're tracking metrics in a public space(if the camera is near the
entrance it may fall with in the public domain of the sidewalk, etc),
the only thing I could see people having an issue with is storing the
tag #'s in a database.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-06 18:44

Every country has different laws. Where I live it's illegal to record
public spaces with security cameras.

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Hornlesscow · 2023-12-06 22:12

is this your building? your parking lot? are you in charge of who
enters and exits? how does this information benefit you? i really hope
you own the building and garage because if not you are a giant
douchebag who needs to get a life instead of bothering others.

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assclownsix9 · 2023-12-07 04:16

If you can isolate the plates from fluff somehow, AWS Recognition can
be very quick.

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BCIT_Richard · 2023-12-07 14:27

That's fair, I did not know any country made it illegal to film in
public, even with security cameras. Not allowing people to film in
public I can sort of understand but restricting security cameras as
well seems so counterintuitive to their purpose.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-12-07 15:21

Not really because you can film your private property, but if you
record it you have to have a sign that informs everyone that they are
being recorded. That's why every store has to have sign up. It's also
illegal to record people at their workplace, and is only permitted if
it is a job requirement (like in a bank vault or jewelry store).

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activ8xp · 2023-12-07 22:59

https://github.com/NavneetSajwan/Parking-space-allocation

Not really what you want, but find it damn interesting

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Euphoric_Hunter_9859 · 2023-12-11 10:20

That's cool, I will surely look into that :)