[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 133 (Friday, July 11, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40162-40163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16211]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

National Institute of Justice

[OJP (NIJ) Docket No. 1665]


License Plate Reader Manufacturer Practical Assessment of 
Proposed Test Methods

AGENCY: National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice.

ACTION: Notice of License Plate Reader Manufacturer Practical 
Assessment of Proposed Test Methods.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is inviting 
manufacturers of vehicle-mounted license plate reader (LPR) systems to 
participate in a practical assessment of the proposed test methods in 
the tentatively titled Vehicle-mounted License Plate Recognition 
Systems for Law Enforcement standard under development.

DATES: Manufacturers wishing to participate must register with the 
International Association of Chiefs of Police no later than Friday, 
August 8, 2014, as instructed below. Test evaluations will take place 
over two days, Tuesday, August 19, 2014, and Wednesday, August 20, 
2014, with a rain date of Thursday, August 21, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. to 
4:00 p.m. The test facility will be available for manufacturers to view 
the test setup and prepare their vehicles from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Location: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Government Test 
Lane Facility (GTLF) in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Directions to the 
facility will be provided upon registration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Manufacturers wishing to participate 
must register with the International Association of Chiefs of Police by 
August 8, 2014. To register for the LPR

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manufacturer practical assessment, please contact Michael Fergus at 
[email protected].
    For information about the NIJ Vehicle-mounted License Plate 
Recognition Systems for Law Enforcement under development, please 
contact Mark Greene, by telephone at (202) 307-3384 [Note: this is not 
a toll-free telephone number], or by email at [email protected]. 
For general information about NIJ standards, please visit http://www.nij.gov/standards or http://www.justnet.org/standards.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is 
inviting manufacturers of vehicle-mounted license plate reader (LPR) 
systems to participate in a practical assessment of the proposed test 
methods in the tentatively titled Vehicle-mounted License Plate 
Recognition Systems for Law Enforcement standard under development. The 
development of this draft NIJ standard is being facilitated by IACP 
with support from and in coordination with NIJ under cooperative 
agreement 2009-IJ-CX-K009. It contains several practical tests to 
determine the performance of vehicle-mounted LPR systems regarding four 
specific functions: detection of plates, capture of images of the 
plates, interpretation and conversion of images into alphanumeric data, 
and comparison of data with a list of specified license plates (e.g., a 
watch list). The tests are performed using license plates set up to 
mimic the different common parking configurations: parallel, 
perpendicular, and diagonal.
    The practical assessment is primarily intended to allow LPR 
manufacturers to familiarize themselves with tests for vehicle-mounted 
LPR systems in the draft NIJ standard and develop any feedback 
regarding those tests. Manufacturers are invited to bring a vehicle 
equipped with a mobile LPR system to the U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection Government Test Lane Facility (GTLF) in Fredericksburg, 
Virginia. The assessment will take place over two days (see dates 
above). Manufacturers will be permitted to run through the test setups 
in an equitable fashion as time permits for the two days depending on 
the number of respondents to this notice.
    Space is limited at the GTLF, and as a result, each manufacturer 
will only be allowed to bring one test vehicle. Neither NIJ nor IACP 
will collect any data from any manufacturer from the practical 
assessment. Manufacturers are encouraged to submit any feedback 
regarding the test methods as result of the two-day practical 
assessment during the forthcoming public comment period for the draft 
NIJ standard tentatively titled Vehicle-mounted License Plate 
Recognition Systems for Law Enforcement.

Gregory K. Ridgeway,
Acting Director, National Institute of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2014-16211 Filed 7-10-14; 8:45 am]
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