A Plate Profile
A plate profile is everything eConnect knows about one vehicle: its reads, where and when, who is associated with it, and any tags it carries.
What is on it
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Plate | The plate string and vehicle details |
| Detections | Every read, with image, detector and time |
| Tags | Classification — see Plate Tags |
| Similar matches | Plates that may be misreads of this one |
| Associated subjects | People seen with this vehicle |
| Alerts | Alerts raised about it |
Check the reads
Each detection carries its captured image. Confirm the read against the picture rather than trusting the string, particularly for any detection you intend to act on.
An incorrect read attached to the wrong profile is worse than a missed read, because it puts a vehicle somewhere it never was.
Similar matches
Because plate reads are imperfect, near-identical plates are surfaced together. A vehicle read
sometimes as B and sometimes as 8 produces two profiles, and this is where you notice.
Reviewing similar matches is the plate equivalent of Similar Faces and worth the same habit — a vehicle split across two profiles has its history split too.
Associated subjects
Where a vehicle and a person are repeatedly seen together, eConnect records the association. That is often the useful part: a plate is a way to reach a person, and a person is a way to reach a plate.
Read associations as a pattern, not a fact. Two people using one vehicle, or one person driving several, are ordinary. See Associations.
Adding a plate by hand
A plate does not have to wait for a camera to see it. Add New License Plate creates the record up front, so it can be tagged or watchlisted before the first read ever arrives — which is what you want when a plate comes from a statement, a colleague or another system rather than from your own cameras.
Adding checks for a plate you already hold and takes you to that record rather than creating a second one. Two records for one plate is the failure that matters here: reads would divide between them and neither would tell the whole story.
Deleting a plate
A plate record can be deleted from its summary, with a confirmation, where your permissions allow it. Deleting is for records that should never have existed — a typo, a test, a duplicate that slipped through — rather than for vehicles that are no longer of interest. For those, remove the tag and leave the record: the reads stay part of the history of what the cameras saw.
Editing
Plate and vehicle details can be edited where you have permission. Corrections are audited — LP - Edit (1034) — so a change can be traced.
Reports
A plate summary can be exported as a PDF, new in version 11 and matching what subject profiles already offered. See PDF Reports.
What is recorded
Opening a profile and generating its report are both audited.
The report row records which options were chosen, so a later review knows what a given document actually contained.
Audit record
What eConnect writes to the audit trail for the actions on this page.
LICENSE PLATE SUMMARY PULLED FOR '{plate}'PLATE REPORT GENERATED FOR '{plate}' WITH OPTIONS: {describe plate report options}