ANPR Edge · on-premise
The same GCC-trained plate engine that runs in our cloud, installed on a Windows PC or Mac at your location — or, on request, in a container on your own server. One ANPR Edge license covers every camera at a location and reads plates from all six GCC countries. Here is what it costs, what it covers, and where the edges are.
Two shapes
They are different products on different commercial models, and mixing them up is the single most common reason a budget comes out wrong. The PC has a list price. The container is quoted.
One Windows PC or Mac on the same switch as your cameras. It reads the plate, checks it against lists held locally and drives the barrier over your own network. With an ANPR Edge license the models come down onto that machine and plates are read there, so the gate is never waiting on an uplink.
What Edge does at the barrierA Docker image you run on your own server, your own cloud tenancy or an air-gapped rack, against your own GPU. Same models, no desktop application around them, and an interface your code talks to rather than an operator. Priced per deployment, because no two look alike.
Jump to containersANPR Edge PC
ANPR Edge runs on a computer at your site: it connects your cameras, controls the barriers and runs your workflows there. Plates are read in the cloud on a monthly plan, or on that computer itself with an on-prem license.
ANPR Edge works on Windows and Mac. Download it to the PC you already have and get started; if you add many cameras later, we can help you choose the right setup for your location.
Windows and macOS. The install is the same either way; what it is allowed to do is set by your account plan or by the license on the machine.
Works with the cameras and barriers you already have
Build the rule the way you would explain it to a colleague: when a resident arrives, check the approved list and open the barrier. The rule runs on the PC at your location, so drivers do not wait for a cloud response. Other rules can alert security, record an unknown vehicle or identify a repeat customer at a drive-through, petrol station or service bay.
Assemble the rule as a sentence - when a plate is seen, check the residents list, open the barrier - and change it yourself, at your location, without a restart.
Learn moreDrive Hikvision, Dahua or Modbus relay hardware straight over your own LAN in about a hundred milliseconds, with the safety logic left in the barrier controller.
Learn moreCount returning vehicles at your location and post them to whatever you already use, so a forecourt or a drive-through learns something from the camera it has.
Learn moreControl who enters, open existing barriers, keep vehicle lists current, identify repeat visitors and alert the right person - all from one PC at your location.
Visual workflow builder
Drag a trigger, a condition and an action into a line and you have a rule. No scripting, no config file, no restart. The operator who runs the gate is the person who can change how it behaves.
How the builder works
Barrier control over LAN
Hikvision and Dahua gate hardware, or a plain Modbus relay, driven straight over your own network in about a hundred milliseconds. No cloud round trip sits in that path, and all the safety logic stays exactly where it belongs - in the barrier controller.
How barriers are wired
Lists and registers
Point the rule at a Google Sheet your office already maintains, upload a CSV, or type plates straight into the app. The sheet stays the source - edit a row and the gate follows it.
Where a list can live
Counting and repeat visits
Not every rule ends at a barrier. The same read can simply be counted - this plate, seen here twelve times this month, six minutes in the lane. Repeat vehicles are posted straight out to whatever you already use to count things, which is most of what a drive-through, a petrol forecourt or a service bay wants from a camera.
How the counting works
Alerts and notifications
A rule can end in a message rather than a relay. An email to the building manager, a Telegram to your team’s group, or a request to a system you run - with the plate, the camera and the time written into the words. Sending happens on its own queue, so telling somebody never slows down the gate.
Who gets told, and when
Some rules end at a barrier. Some end in a number somebody reads on Monday morning. Seven shapes that come up again and again - pick the one that looks most like yours.
Give approved residents automatic access without cards or remotes. Edge checks each arriving plate against your resident list and opens the assigned barrier when the vehicle is authorised.
An ANPR Edge license carries the recognition models inside the software, so every image is read on the PC at your location, not in our cloud, and a slow connection never delays a read.
Forty branches in one list. You can see what every gate is doing, and nobody can stop one working by clicking the wrong thing in a browser.
Learn moreThe internet drops. With an ANPR Edge license, recognition, list checks and barrier control stay on the PC at your location, so the gate keeps making local decisions. Dashboard updates pause and catch up when the connection returns. The PC needs to reach us at least once every 3 days to keep its license active.
— Internet failure
Licensing
One payment per location, nothing billed per read, no per-camera license. Both licenses are for the Windows PC or Mac running Edge — a container is quoted separately, further down.
Up to 4 cameras
$2,500per location, one-time
For a gate, a small car park or a single entrance. The same engine and the same features, for up to 4 cameras.
Unlimited cameras · For 5 cameras or more
$6,500per location, one-time
One license per location, paid once. No per-camera license: add cameras until the PC runs out of capacity, and the license stays the same.
Tell us how many locations and how many cameras at each. Up to 4 cameras is the smaller license; 5 or more is unlimited.
Total$6,500paid once
Included: all six GCC countries, vehicle make, model and colour, and 12 months of updates.
From year 2, updates are optional: $1,170 a year per unlimited license, $450 per 4-camera license.
Unlimited licenses: 1st $6,500 · 2nd to 5th $4,000 each · 6th and more $2,500 each. Licenses you already own count.
Unlimited means no license limit on cameras. How many cameras one PC runs depends on its hardware.
Integrator? Approved partners get 30% off every license. Talk to us
Cloud API
$0.005per plate
No license at all. Start with one camera: plates are read in our cloud and paid from your wallet, from $15 a month.
The unlimited license puts no limit on cameras; the PC is the only ceiling, and how many cameras it runs depends on its hardware. We measured 16 cameras running continuously in Parked cars mode, which tracks each car and reads its plate again only when it moves, on an HP Pro Tower 290 G9 with a Core i7 (28 threads) and 34 GB. Lane mode, for a gate or barrier, is lighter: usually up to 4 cameras, on any modern PC — even a micro PC. Past 30 cameras the GPU is what runs out, so the spec moves to an RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB, a Core i9 and 64 GB. Need more cameras? Upgrade the PC. Your license stays the same.
Three ways to start
Every license reads plates from all six GCC countries, so there is no country to choose. The only question is how many cameras a location has.
Say you run one gate with one camera today and plan three more entrances next year. Start free, move to the 4-camera license when the second camera goes up, and upgrade that license to unlimited later for the difference. The key and the machine stay the same.
Branches count together: your 2nd to 5th unlimited licenses are $4,000 each and the 6th onward $2,500, and a 4-camera license counts toward that position. Approved integrators get 30% off on top.
Containers
If you would rather host the engine yourself than run a desktop machine at the gate, that is a product we sell — it is just not one with a price on a page.
The Edge PC licenses above do not apply here — those are for the Windows or macOS desktop install, and quoting them for a container would be quoting you the wrong product. A container is scoped on how many lanes it serves, what the models are running on and how it is deployed, which is why it is a number we work out with you rather than one we can print.
Get a container scopedSome locations cannot let a vehicle image leave their network. The reason varies — a government or defence contract, a banking or healthcare policy, a data-protection regime that limits where personal data may be processed, or a customer who has simply said no. Those obligations differ by market, and this page is not going to tell you what yours says. What it can tell you is which of these modes lets an image off your network at all, which is the part you can check yourself.
Cloud API
The image leaves your network. This is the mode a residency requirement usually rules out first.
ANPR Edge, reading against the cloud
The image leaves your network. Lists, rules and barrier control stay on the machine, so the gate keeps working through an outage — but the image still crosses the boundary.
ANPR Edge with a license
Plates from all six GCC countries are read on the machine at your location, so no image leaves your network to be read. The PC checks in with us at least every 3 days for licensing and updates. Need a sealed network? We provide a fully air-gapped deployment on request.
The engine in your own container
Nothing leaves your network. You host it on your own hardware, air-gapped if that is the requirement.
We are not your legal advisers, and nothing here tells you whether a number plate counts as personal data where you operate — that answer differs between the GCC, the UK and the EU, and it belongs to your counsel rather than to a vendor page. If your requirement goes beyond the boundary above and into how a hosted request is handled, ask us directly and it gets answered in writing, under agreement, rather than on a marketing page.
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