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Case study · Fixed-Price Build, then Dev Team as a Service · Security & surveillance

Built in 10 weeks. Scanning 10 million plates a day.

ClientVumacam, Johannesburg street-camera network
Team3 developers + 1 QA
Timeline10 weeks (2019)
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01

The problem

Vumacam was putting up licence-plate cameras across Johannesburg. They photographed every passing car, but nothing turned a photo into an alert. Police and security firms needed a wanted plate flagged in seconds, not photos to search afterwards.

02

What we did

We built the plate-recognition platform at a fixed price, over the Christmas holidays:

  • HD photo intake from every camera, at rush-hour volume
  • Plate recognition, search and storage
  • Police-database checks, so a wanted plate raises an alert in real time

After launch, Vumacam kept us on under Dev Team as a Service to add features. The core has not changed since go-live.

03

In the product

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Results

10M+ plates scanned a day

10M+

plates scanned a day, at last check

20,000+

plates a minute at rush hour, from over 10 GB of HD photos

370

suspects detained and 783 vehicles intercepted in the first half of 2024

In their words

"Years after launch, the man who now runs the platform told us our real problem was that the software was too good. It needs no maintenance and scales with whatever the system demands. The issues come from modules Vumacam has since built in-house."

Gavin Hill

Former CIO of Vumacam. His company, Highpeak Technology Services, now runs the platform.

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