Evaluating Factors Shaping Real-Time Internet-of-Things-Based License Plate Recognition Using Single-Board Computer Technology

Autor: Paniti Netinant, Siwakron Phonsawang, Meennapa Rukhiran
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Technologies, Vol 12, Iss 7, p 98 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-7080
DOI: 10.3390/technologies12070098
Popis: Reliable and cost-efficient license plate recognition (LPR) systems enhance security, traffic management, and automated toll collection in real-world applications. This study addresses optimal unique configurations for enhancing LPR system accuracy and reliability by evaluating the impact of camera angle, object velocity, and distance on the efficacy of real-time LPR systems. The Internet of Things (IoT) LPR framework is proposed and utilized on single-board computer (SBC) technology, such as the Raspberry Pi 4 platform, with a high-resolution webcam using advanced OpenCV and OCR–Tesseract algorithms applied. The research endeavors to simulate common deployment scenarios of the real-time LPR system and perform thorough testing by leveraging SBC computational capabilities and the webcam’s imaging capabilities. The testing process is not just comprehensive, but also meticulous, ensuring the system’s reliability in various operational settings. We performed extensive experiments with a hundred repetitions at diverse angles, velocities, and distances. An assessment of the data’s precision, recall, and F1 score indicates the accuracy with which Thai license plates are identified. The results show that camera angles close to 180° significantly reduce perspective distortion, thus enhancing precision. Lower vehicle speeds (
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