
As you travel this holiday weekend you may notice these IR devices mounted on police vehicles, at turnpike toll plazas and elsewhere along highways. They are designed to automatically read license plate numbers and check them against a database. Here’s an abstract describing how these systems work.

don’t see anything special in the paper. It’s quite obvious scenario. Nothing new – GPS, ,databases, OCR. Just linking them together for such a ‘business process’ adds nothing valuable to the human knowledge, but puts a barrier for a concurrence.