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Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days

You're reading from   Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days Build exciting projects using smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286429
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Simple Smart Gardening System FREE CHAPTER 2. A Smart Parking System 3. Making Your Own Vending Machine 4. A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard 5. A Smart Speaker Machine 6. Autonomous Firefighter Robot 7. Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence 8. Essential Hardware Components

Vehicle plate number detection

A smart parking system ensures all activities take place automatically. Rather than reading a vehicle plate number manually, we can make it read a vehicle plate number using a program through a camera. We can use the OpenALPR library for reading vehicle plate numbers.

OpenALPR is an open source automatic license plate recognition library written in C++ with bindings in C#, Java, Node.js, Go, and Python. You can visit the official website at https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr.

We will install OpenALPR and test it with vehicle plate numbers in the next section.

Installing OpenALPR

In this section, we will deploy OpenALPR on the Raspberry Pi. Since OpenALPR needs more space on disk, make sure...

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