ACTi MGB-150 Installation Guide

MGB-150

Installation Guide

2019/09/23

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Installation Guide

Table of Contents

Part 1: Camera Placement................................................................ 4

Lighting .......................................................................................... 5

Angle of Capture ............................................................................ 6

Pixel Size of Target ........................................................................ 7

Part 2: Camera installation: ............................................................. 8

Part 3: Camera setting ...................................................................... 9

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Thank you for purchasing ACTi products and solutions. The following documentation covers
basic installation instructions of cameras that will be used with your MGB device.

NOTE: The accuracy of the analytics algorith may be affected by different environmental

factors or inappropriate installation. Please follow the procedures in this guide. ACTi will not be
liable for inaccuracies resulting from the aforesaid causes.

Part 1: Camera Placement

License plate recognition accuracy is highly dependent on the video input quality. If a human

cannot read the license plate characters, then any software will not be able to accurately read
the characters, as well. If the camera is properly set up, high accuracy is most likely. If the
camera cannot clearly capture license plates, then the results may be less accurate.

Test your camera. First, try to freeze a frame as a car drives past and try to read the license
plates. If you cannot do this easily, the License Plate Recognition (LPR) system will not be
successful. Even if the plate numbers are legible, make sure the camera is properly configured
for LPR.

In the image below, the license plate appears to be legible. We can read **. The image
contrast however is very poor so the characters appear blurry with gray blending into the plate
background and other characters. The LPR system will struggle to accurately read this kind of
license plates.

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