Mobile & PWA · Fleet & security
PlateScan
Reads a South African number plate from a phone camera.
- In production since Jan 2026
- 6 delivered capabilities
Overview
An automatic number plate recognition progressive web app built for South African plate formats, returning a read fast enough to use at a moving boom.
The problem
Generic ANPR struggles with South African plates — provincial formats, separators that matter, and the glare of a Highveld afternoon. Getting a wrong read is worse than getting no read.
How we approached it
Format-aware recognition that preserves the source separator rather than stripping it, tuned for speed on a mid-range handset, wrapped in an installable PWA so a guard can use it without an app store.
Where it stands
A scanner that reads plates in the format they were issued in, on hardware sites already own.
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