How To Manage Car Exit Registration Of A Manufacturer Warehouse With Face Recognition And LPR?

Do brand new cars have plates at all? Also, getting facial details thru the windshield is going to be very challenging.

I saw an impressive demo set-up last year at ISC West 2017 with a facial recognition camera and flash set-up that was designed to shoot thru a smoked-glass side window of a moving car.  Those interested, could get inside the demo vehicle, close the door and a picture was captured.  The results displayed were really surprising, their system seemed to work well (although the vehicle was not moving).  Unfortunately, I don't remember the Company's name, but maybe someone else may chime in for more info...

Why not conditioned the driver to roll down the window and facing the camera? If that condition is not met then the gate/barrier should not be opening, much simpler IMHO.

The face recognition for the exiting vehicles through the windshield is indeed challenging. 

I think face recognition should be captured at the time when someone is entering the vehicle and this means deploying a system with robust analytics capability and PTZ might play a pivotal role.

Why don't you put a bar code access control/accounting system on the window of every car that is scanned when they drive past it. More reliable than LPR and not affected by window tint.  Sort of like access control but you can do it at longer distances.  You could  have a beam break sensor across the drive way so you'd get an alert if someone took the sticker off and drove through without it. 

Thank you Scott, it is a really good option I will consider to propose. 

If you search for it, there's really only one company that makes bar code systems.  I investigated it when weighing the pros and cons of that vs LPR.    LPR has the advantage of  not needing to issue any sort of credential, (since it's all done virtually) but it's still not 100% accurate.  I figure since you're going to have to physically touch every car for serial numbers and such anyway, putting a sticker on the side window shouldn't be that big of a deal.   The bar code stickers aren't that expensive in bulks of thousands and it will give you a hard, physical tracking to everything.

It seems like there are two objectives here, one to verify the driver has the authorization to drive out the gate. The second is to ensure the vehicle is authorized to leave.

How are license plates issued? When you say car manufacturer I am envisioning thousands of cars at a Ford plant, and they do not hold those cars very long.Or at least they aren't being moved often. License plates would not be permanent. Here in the US dealer tags would be put on. That is a generic tag of a special color that can be put on any vehicle in the dealer's inventory. Just because the car has a tag, doesn't mean it was assigned to that car. Tags can be moved easily.

From what I gather, the guard is still going to open the gate, but there needs to be some form of ID of the driver?

Why not a card reader? Maybe with a photo and that photo would pop up in the guard booth so the guard can see the driver, and verify they look like the owner of the card? Or even dual verification with a card and PIN? You can lose a card, and you can share a PIN. You can obviously share the card and PIN, but it seems like the accountability would be 100%. Bob how did this guy drive off the lot using your card and PIN? Or remotes?

As far as the vehicle, do they get barcodes for inventory? Surely they don't manually input VIN #'s manually when moving inventory? I would try to use the VIN# to ID the vehicle. If no barcode, how about OCR of the VIN through the dash, or even requiring the door to be opened and getting the VIN from the door decal?

I think trying to facial recognition is going to be a challenge and IME guard booth operators do not have a lot of technical skills. There will probably be a lot of false reads, which will require a manual process, which may create bottlenecks, etc.

Rodrigo- Found the name of the company I discussed prior that I saw at ISC last year.  It was Gatekeeper Security, they displayed how to capture an image though smoked glass - their system solution was was called "Intelligent Vehicle Occupant Detection".  

Here is how they describe the product from their website- GatekeeperSecurity.com

With Gatekeeper’s patent pending Intelligent Vehicle Occupant Detection (IVOD), security officers can see inside vehicles as they approach entry gates and know who is inside with accuracy and speed. The high-resolution machine vision camera is optimized for both day and night operation,  the camera is paired with a powerful targeted array of LED lights that illuminate the driver and other occupants even through tinted glass, sun glare and at night. Using advanced image processing, the driver and passengers are highlighted while windshield glare from sunlight or overhead area lighting is removed through Gatekeeper’s advanced computer vision algorithms.

Good luck with you hunt for a the correct solution.  

This appears to be the best solution. Why not give it a try anyway.