P372 Licence Plate Recognition Camera User Manual
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Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................................................9
1.1. Layout of the manual ...................................................................................................................................................9
2. Equipment Overview.......................................................................................................................................10
2.1. Siting the P372...........................................................................................................................................................11
2.2. Rear connection panel................................................................................................................................................11
2.3. Installation..................................................................................................................................................................11
2.4. Computer configuration of the P372 .........................................................................................................................12
2.4.1. Communications Link........................................................................................................................................12
2.4.2. IP Addressing.....................................................................................................................................................12
2.4.3. PC Support Software .........................................................................................................................................13
2.4.4. FTP Server .........................................................................................................................................................13
2.4.5. Keaterm..............................................................................................................................................................13
2.5. Set up tools.................................................................................................................................................................14
2.6. Aligning number plates..............................................................................................................................................14
3. Maintenance...........................................................................................................................................................15
4. Fault Finding.........................................................................................................................................................15
Appendix 1 Mechanical and Electrical Specification for the P372..................................................................................16
1.1 Mechanical.................................................................................................................................................................16
1.2 Electronic ...................................................................................................................................................................16
1.3 Environmental Specification......................................................................................................................................16
1.4 Statutory and Regulatory Considerations..................................................................................................................16
Appendix 2 Connector pin outs.........................................................................................................................................17
Appendix 3 P372 General Configuration..........................................................................................................................20
3.1 Overview....................................................................................................................................................................20
3.2 Connection & Control................................................................................................................................................20
3.3 EPROM configuration ...............................................................................................................................................20
3.3.1 Boot device.............................................................................................................................................................21
3.3.2 Examples................................................................................................................................................................21
3.4 Application configuration..........................................................................................................................................22
3.4.1 Mode and Sync.......................................................................................................................................................30
3.4.2 Camera exposure configuration.............................................................................................................................31
3.4.3 Example exposure settings.....................................................................................................................................32
3.4.4 direction selection..................................................................................................................................................32
3.4.5 closeloop.................................................................................................................................................................33
3.4.6 ALPR configuration...............................................................................................................................................34
3.5 Plate database.............................................................................................................................................................36
3.5.1 Performance ...........................................................................................................................................................37
3.6 Communication & file transfer facilities...................................................................................................................38
3.6.1 WEB management and reporting...........................................................................................................................39
3.7 Trigger system............................................................................................................................................................41
3.8 BMP support ..............................................................................................................................................................41
3.8.1 Test system.............................................................................................................................................................42
3.9 Batch processing ........................................................................................................................................................43
3.10 Network support.........................................................................................................................................................43
3.10.1 Ping.........................................................................................................................................................................44
3.10.2 Telnet......................................................................................................................................................................45
3.10.3 Debug .....................................................................................................................................................................45
3.10.4 Mail ........................................................................................................................................................................45
3.10.5 FTP.........................................................................................................................................................................46
3.10.6 HTTP......................................................................................................................................................................46
3.10.7 PPP .........................................................................................................................................................................46
3.10.8 Time services .........................................................................................................................................................46
3.11 Gzip & Gunzip...........................................................................................................................................................46
3.12 Storage subsystem support.........................................................................................................................................46
3.12.1 Flash file system.....................................................................................................................................................46
3.12.2 DOS file system.....................................................................................................................................................47
3.13 Time synchronisation.................................................................................................................................................48
Appendix 4 Vehicle logging software notes.....................................................................................................................49
4.1 Overview....................................................................................................................................................................49
4.2 General configuration ................................................................................................................................................49
