Rekor Edge Pro LPR Camera Tested
Rekor is a publicly traded company best known for its 2019 acquisition of OpenALPR. The company claims the Edge Pro LPR has "Incredible license plate recognition accuracy", how does it work in our real-world testing?
IPVM bought and tested the Rekor Edge Pro LPR camera, examining:
- How accurately does Rekor read license plates?
- How accurately does Rekor handle increasingly common stacked characters and specialty plates?
- Does Rekor accurately read front and back plates?
- How accurately can Rekor read dirty or scratched plates?
- Does Rekor miss passing plates?
- How accurately are plates captured at night?
- How much latency is typical from a plate read to notification?
- How hard or simple are hotlists or rules to make?
- How accurately does vehicle make/model/color perform?
- How accurately does Rekor detect plate states?
This test is the seventh in a series of LPR tests, including Alta LPR, Axis All-In-One LPR, Genetec Autovu LPR, Hanwha LPR, Motorola L6Q, and Verkada LPR, leading up to rankings later this year.
Physical ********
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Versions ****
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