The following is an OPEN letter to hotel groups indicating how LPR can be used with existing cameras and system, if integrated, intelligent imaging is added!

I would like to expand on the I-CUBE vision for a typical hotel group, for example, SUN INTERNATIONAL’S SUN CITY.  The guest makes a booking, indicating their license plate number as NP123.

When NP123 arrives at any of the 8 entrances, immediately a welcome board displays a welcome message and directs Mr & Mrs Smith to, firstly a reserved parking, and then to reception.

A message is sent to reception showing a past picture of Mr & Mrs Smith, so they can be welcomed by name as they arrive.

House keeping is automatically informed and room confirmed ready.

When Mr. Smith walks into the casino, being a MVG member the casino marketing manager is made aware of Mr. Smith’s arrival (as all MVG members are enrolled in the Facial Recognition database) via a PDA.  The barman is informed to prepare a Dirty Martini, Mr. Smith’s favourite drink.

Unfortunately while at the casino, the Smiths car is stolen and the criminal attempts to leave the hotel. However, while the car colour and shape matched, and the license plate was the same, the face of the driver was not the same and security immediately arrested the criminals and returned the car.

Before handing over the criminals, they are found to have been involved with 7 other criminal events in the area, which is then handed over to the police as supporting evidence so they are not immediately released.  The criminals are enrolled in the 3D neural network facial database so that if they ever come back an alarm is immediately activated and they can be followed.

Mrs Smith had left her GAMBLING DAY CARD in the car, which the criminals handed on to an associate to collect the money in the card.  When the criminal went to the claim the money in the card, her face was compared to the face of the person who was issued the car earlier that day, and the person who had been using the card throughout the day.  Of course, when none of the faces associated with the card matched the person who wanted the money, appropriate action was taken and the criminal was apprehended.

By reviewing whom the person was associated with, a link was obtained to the criminals involved with the car theft and other criminal activities, allowing the person to be charged with a number of outstanding warrants.    

The next day the local gambling board wanted to know about all incidents in the casino.  The gambling board authorities were able to review the above incident, plus take note of the 35 banned gamblers, which were removed before entry to the casino, and the 3 people who had enrolled in the SUN INTERNATIONAL SELF BAN PROGRAM.  Two of the 3 people who had self-banned themselves had also banned themselves from ALL CASINOS in Gauteng, and the gambling board members could see that the TEMPLATES of the people banned had automatically been sent to the appropriate casinos, preventing any banned person from gambling.

At 7 am the hotel security staff were automatically notified that 4 vehicles had been in the parking area for longer than 7 days, along with the vehicle colour, shape and a picture of the driver allowing them to find the car and take appropriate action. 

The SUN INTERNATIONAL delivery web site allows any authorised person to see when a vehicle arrived and departed, and select people add and remove vehicles, which are allowed entry and exit without being delayed.  

At 8 am all the shops in the hotel area were notified of the last 24 hours traffic, indicating what time staff members came onto duty, when security personal went past the store, allowing them to immediately follow up any activity either in or around their stores.          

At 9 am all stores, the casino and the hotel are updated with the latest WANTED DATABASES, for manual (check, credit card, returns, etc.) and automatic identification of UNDESIRABLE PEOPLE.

At 11 am the SMITHS depart, having had the car colour, shape, license plate and driver verified on exit!  They automatically received a THANK YOU SMS from the HOTEL, whishing them a safe trip.

At the end of the money, those utilising the information gained from the system are charged 3c per transaction, covering all the hardware, software, cameras, maintenance and support required to keep the system operational 24/7/365.

If you are interested in assisting in presenting the above vision to selected hotel groups, please let me know how we can work together to bring this to the right peoples attention?

Please note, that all of the above utilises existing hardware and systems where possible, just adding the integrated, intelligent imaging software!