Example of use of aliases and license plate styles

In this example, let's create aliases and assign them to license plate styles in the Denmark country module.

To follow along, open the Management Client and enable the Denmark country module.

For our license plate recognition needs, we decide to categorize license plate styles in the Denmark country module into the following groups:

  • Commercial

  • Motorcycle

  • Private

  • Standard.

With the Denmark country module already enabled, let's first create the aliases, and then assign them to license plate styles.

Create aliases

  1. Select Site Navigation > Servers > License plate style aliases > Configure aliases.

  2. Select Add to create an alias.

    Let's create the four aliases:

    • DK_COMMERCIAL
    • DK_MOTORCYCLE
    • DK_PRIVATE
    • DK_STANDARD

Next, let's group license plate styles into aliases by assigning the new aliases to the license plate styles.

Assign the aliases to license plate styles

  1. Select Site Navigation > Servers > License plate style aliases > Assign aliases.

  2. For each license plate style that you want to assign an alias to, select the dropdown in the Alias column and select the alias of your choice.

    We assign aliases to license plate styles in the Denmark country module as follows:

License plate style

Alias

  • DK_commercial_since_1976

  • DK_commercial_since_2008

  • DK_commercial_since_2009

  • DK_commercial_since_2009_twoline

DK_COMMERCIAL

  • DK_motorcycle_since_1976

DK_MOTORCYCLE

  • DK_private_transport_since_2009

  • DK_private_transport_since_2009_euroband

  • DK_private_transport_since_2009_twoline

  • DK_private_transport_since_2009_twoline_euroband

DK_PRIVATE

  • DK_standard_since_1976

  • DK_standard_since_2009

  • DK_standard_since_2009_euroband

  • DK_standard_since_2009_twoline

  • DK_standard_since_2012_holograph

DK_STANDARD

Note that we assigned the DK_MOTORCYCLE alias to only one license plate style. We did that because we want to use this specific license plate style on a match list, and match lists support aliases but not individual license plate styles.

In this example, we created aliases and assigned them to license plate styles. A possible next step is to add the aliases to match lists. That way, we can associate different groups of license plate styles with different LPR events. For example, we can open a gate to a vehicle only if the license plate style of the vehicle is part of the DK_COMMERCIAL alias. See Match lists.