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What makes an ALPR cost more than $1000 per unit?
by goda90 2mo ago
What makes an ALPR cost more than $1000 per unit?
- kiddico 2mo agoThe markup I assume
- s_tec 2mo agoProbably the pole, footing, and wages for the installation crew.
- kirykl 2mo agoThe starting value of felony
- KPGv2 2mo agoA quick google reveals a Flock camera costs about $2500 and there's a few hundred dollars in install fees.
- parineum 2mo agoHigh quality cameras are expensive.
- dawnerd 2mo agoEquivalent quality cameras can be had for 100-200. Not that expensive.
- SoftTalker 2mo agoIn a weather-proof, UV-resistant housing, with battery and solar panel for charging, designed to meet municipal and traffic safety specs, and with turn-key service, all at the usual markup for dealing with all that and because there are almost no competitive alternatives, it sounds pretty typical. Even a simple stop sign is hundreds of dollars when you consider all the costs associated with its installation.
- dawnerd 2mo agoLook up guardrail guy's video on their installs. They are not up to code. Even the newer installs that do include breakaways are failing.
- mlrtime 2mo agohttps://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uvc-ai-lpr https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/uvc-ai-lpr $500 for one of the best [that I know of] consumer LPR cameras. Non-consumer versions go for thousands.
- dawnerd 2mo agoAnd the cameras Flock are using are no where near that good of quality. The claim was high quality cameras are expensive. Flock is using pretty cheap components. There's been multiple tear-downs showing just how budget built they are.
- ibejoeb 2mo agoAll the reasons in the other repliues, and it's also not just an ALPR.
- gosub100 2mo agoGo tear one down and see for yourself. We don't want to ruin the surprise for you.
- Sohcahtoa82 2mo agoFraming Flock as just an ALPR always feels disingenuous to me. More charitably, it's at least naive. And even if it WAS and will only ever be an ALPR, I'm incredulous that people would accept it.
- burnt-resistor 2mo agoYes, stop calling them "ALPRs" because they're not. It's the surveillance industry's marketing wank to make them seem benign, limited, and a police tool when it's (and similar products) really a video/audio?/wifi?/bt?/sdr?* panopticon that generates fallible metadata about maybe you, maybe your car, and maybe your stuff that will be saved forever, to be offered for sale forever to almost any company, government, or individual in the world with money for any purpose. They say they'll delete "data" in X days, but what they really mean is original source video only. There's no guarantee they'll delete anything else because their moneymaker is compiling sellable "histories" of and AI training data about people, vehicles, and other objects. Streetlight light sensor ports are being used to retrofit lights with smart lights containing advanced neighborhood spy "cameras" with additional features. So there's more than just standalone or telephone pole-mounted "ALPRs". * It's not a huge cost and there's obvious motivations to iterate to include additional sensors &| radios to gather additional raw data by using the fleet of "ALPRs" as a platform. Many "ALPRs" have microphones. Some smart streetlight ones do wifi/bt fingerprinting.