Pro-Vigil is excited to extend our crime stopping, remote video monitoring platform (RVM) with two new products that provide insights on stored footage: License Plate Recognition (LPR) and Time-lapse Video. While RVM cameras provide protection of your property with a 24/7 team monitoring your site, LPR and Time-lapse Video are built to help your team better understand what is happening, from the vehicles that arrive onsite to the progression of projects.
License Plate Recognition: Purpose-Built Vehicle Intelligence
License Plate Recognition (LPR) is designed to identify and document vehicle activity at locations that have these specific cameras. Using dedicated LPR cameras, the system automatically captures and analyzes license plates as vehicles enter or exit a site. Each plate read is tied to a timestamp and site context, creating a clear, searchable record of vehicle movement.
This capability is especially valuable in situations where understanding vehicle access matters more than reviewing general video. Investigations involving theft, vandalism, or unauthorized access can begin with a simple question: which vehicles were on site at a specific time? LPR is built to answer that question quickly and consistently.
LPR is available for fixed sites and mobile deployments with main power, where camera placement and stability support long-term, repeatable performance. These deployments are purpose built and use cameras optimized specifically for plate capture rather than wide-area surveillance. This allows the system to focus on accuracy under supported lighting and traffic conditions.
Within Pro-View, license plate data is presented through a dedicated LPR interface. Customers can review captured plates by date, time, and site, with both a license-plate-focused view and a full vehicle view available. The experience is user-friendly, emphasizing plate data and reporting rather than raw video review.
As with any specialized analytics solution, performance depends on proper setup. Camera placement, lane coverage, and site conditions play a critical role in accuracy. For that reason, LPR deployments follow standardized installation and configuration guidelines designed to ensure reliable, long-term operation.
It is also important to note that LPR is purpose-built for vehicle identification and is separate from proactive video monitoring. In other words, LPR cameras are deployed alongside your existing RVM cameras, not in place of them, because both cameras serve unique purposes.
Time-lapse Video: Understanding Progress Over Time
While LPR focuses on vehicle activity, Time-lapse Video is designed to provide visibility into how a site changes over the course of a project. This solution automatically captures images at 4k resolution from mobile units at regular intervals. It then compiles them into time-lapse videos that visually document progress.
For construction teams, this approach eliminates the need to review continuous footage to understand what happened over days, weeks, or months. Instead, site activity is summarized into a single view that shows progress from ground preparation through project completion. Time-lapse videos can be used to validate milestones, confirm schedule adherence, and communicate status with internal teams or external stakeholders.
Images are uploaded automatically to the Pro-Vigil platform, and customers can generate time-lapse videos on demand through Pro-View by selecting a custom date range. These videos are provided via download rather than live streaming, making them easy to review, share, and archive.
To maintain reliability, the system includes built-in guardrails. If a time-lapse camera is online but no images are captured within a 24-hour period, an automatic alert is generated for the Pro-Vigil team so the issue can be verified and addressed. This ensures that progress documentation remains consistent throughout the life of a project.
Designed for Clarity, Not Volume
Both License Plate Recognition and Time-lapse Video reflect the same design principle: visibility should lead to understanding, not more work. By focusing on specific outcomes (vehicle identification in one case, and progress visualization in the other) these solutions turn site activity into information teams can actually use.
Rather than overwhelming customers with more footage, Pro-Vigil helps them see what matters, when it matters, and why it matters. This is one example of how Pro-Vigil continues to evolve the platform to deliver more value to the sites we monitor and protect.
