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The town of Rotterdam, New York, has only 45 police officers, but technology extends their reach.
Each day a department computer logs the license plates of around 10,000 vehicles moving through and around town, using software plugged into a network of cameras at major intersections and commercial areas.
In the real world, more straightforward applications of the technology have made tracking faces or license plates much cheaper and more accurate.
Automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, first appeared at police departments in the 2000s, as specialized and expensive cameras.
But last year Rotterdam embraced a newer generation of ALPR technology, software that can discern plates from more or less any conventional security camera.
Rotterdam’s supplier Rekor Systems charges as little as $50 a month to read plates from a single camera.
“The software is a lot more cost effective than buying a full system,” says Collins.
“That can change everything.” Drivers in Rotterdam used to be watched by three conventional license plate readers, two fixed and one mounted to a police vehicle.
Now, five of the town’s public security cameras also are connected to Rekor’s software, significantly expanding the police’s view of the movements of local vehicles.
Because AI software helps computers make sense of the real world, the effects of democratizing the technology can be particularly striking—and to some concerning.
“The software is a lot more cost effective than buying a full system.” Lt. Jeffrey Collins, Rotterdam PD
When police chief Thomas Ruehle discovered the company at a conference last October, his department, with a staff of just 20, already had a conventional license plate reader system bought more than a decade ago.
Within months his officers began logging the plate of every vehicle going in and out of Sands Point, thanks to seven security cameras linked to Rekor’s software.
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