Now Wireless has teased that it is close to announcing a new initiative that will solve the issue of ghost licence plates.

Writing on LinkedIN, the Surrey-based city networking infrastructure specialists said:

“Every day, ANPR systems across the UK log thousands of failed reads. Dirty plates, poor lighting, obscured characters. Routine stuff. But not all of those failures are ‘accidents’.

“Ghost plates are specifically engineered to defeat ANPR, exploiting the technical limitations of camera systems to produce a miss that looks identical to any other read error. The vehicle passes through. The system logs a failed read. No alert, no flag, no record.

“For UK policing that is not a traffic issue. It is an intelligence issue. Vehicles of interest moving through monitored corridors with no record of their presence and nothing to prompt anyone to look closer. The system has no way of knowing what it is missing, and that is what makes it so hard to get on top of.

“We have been working on this with Surrey Police. If it is something you deal with, follow us. We will be sharing what we found over the coming weeks.”

Click HERE to read Now Wireless’s 2025 White Paper, Closing the ANPR Gap.

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