License Plate Recognition (LPR) Cameras

License Plate Recognition often referred to as a License Plate Security Camera or LPR is a technology available with security cameras that can detect, read, and store a video of a vehicle’s license plate.

About LPR Security Cameras

If you’re looking for a commercial security system to monitor a parking lot, entrance gate, a high traffic vehicle area, or loading docks, the license plate recognition software is a great option.

How Does License Plate Recognition Work?

When the camera captures a video, which is extremely clear. It either stores it for you to view later or it can be compared to your database of stored license plate numbers, alerts can be programmed to notify you if a match is found.

Our Houston License Plate Recognition Security experts are eager to help you with your surveillance needs. We are experienced and have a list of satisfied commercial security clients throughout Texas.

We understand the details involved in getting you excellent results. We insure that cameras are angled properly and installed at the perfect height to capture the license plate number.

Our goal is to study the location, and provide a detailed proposal that takes many factors into account:

• Distance between cameras and license plate
• Height of the camera from the capture area
• Camera angle for clear images
• Speed of vehicle traffic in the area to insure proper focus
• Lighting in the area being monitored

The image is useless if not clear, images from a license plate security camera are often used in legal cases as evidence after a robbery or crime has been committed.

Your local police department may need to rely on the images captured by your commercial security cameras, therefore the images must be of high quality, and clarity.

Learn more about our commercial security and surveillance services in Houston. We specialize in systems that secure your business and protect your assets from unwanted intrusions.

If you would like to get a complimentary evaluation for business security cameras, give us a call and allow us to put our 20 plus years of experience to work for you.

What separates commercial equipment from what you can buy online

The gap is not marketing. Consumer cameras are built to a price for a mild indoor climate and a homeowner who will replace them in a few years. Commercial hardware is built for continuous duty, wider temperature and humidity ranges, and sealed against the elements at the joints where cheap units fail first. On the Texas Gulf Coast that difference is measured in years of service life.

Sustained heat, high humidity, and salt air across the bay and coastal areas attack housings, cable glands and connectors relentlessly. Storm season adds wind loading that residential mounts were never engineered for. We routinely replace consumer-grade equipment that failed within two or three seasons, usually discovered at the exact moment someone needed the footage.

The other difference is the recorder. Consumer systems tie you to a manufacturer's cloud account, often with a subscription and a storage cap, and frequently with no clean way to export a clip that a police department or an insurer will accept. Commercial recorders keep the footage on your premises, under your control, exportable in standard formats, with retention you set rather than rent.

None of this means the most expensive option is automatically right. It means the cheapest option is frequently not cheap at all once you count the replacement, the lost coverage, and the incident it failed to capture.

Why Houston businesses choose Texas Surveillance

We have been a family-operated Texas company since 1993 — 33 years, Texas license B04080401. Over that time we have designed, installed and maintained commercial and industrial surveillance systems for the Houston Rockets, NRG Stadium, the George R. Brown Convention Center, the Houston Police Department, several municipal governments and fire departments, and many hundreds of warehouses, plants, dealerships, restaurants and storefronts across the region.

Two things set a commercial install apart from what you can buy in a box. The first is specification: cameras chosen and positioned against your actual sightlines, lighting and risk, rather than a package applied uniformly to every building. The second is service. Security contractors in this market appear and vanish constantly, and a system with nobody behind it becomes a liability the moment it fails. A large share of our work is maintaining and expanding systems we installed years — in some cases decades — ago.

What every system includes

Commercial-grade, weather-sealed hardware specified for Gulf Coast heat, humidity and storm season. Secure remote viewing from phone, tablet or desktop. Storage sized to the retention your risk actually requires rather than the minimum the recorder ships with. Full handover training so your people can find and export footage without calling us. And a free on-site survey before any of it — because a quote produced without walking the property is a guess.

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