Predator Ecosystem

Learn about the Predator ecosystem, and how each component fits into the larger environment.

ALPR

The Predator ecosystem depends on an ALPR back-end. This is the component reponsible for collecting raw license plate data from images, and returning them as computer-readable results.

Phantom ALPR

The first-party ALPR engine designed specifically for Predator

OpenALPR

The third-party ALPR engine that forms the basis of Phantom ALPR

Core

These are the core Predator applications. They can be used as stand-alone programs, or as part of an integrated system.

Predator

The original fully-featured smart dash-cam, with both real-time and pre-recorded ALPR functionality

Predator Fabric

A light-weight Predator variant designed to feed ALPR information to a network target

Predator Volume

A Predator variant designed to process bulk video files from third-party dash-cams

Interface

These are graphical web-interfaces that run on the same device as the core application. They can be used to manage the instance from a network-enabled device like a phone or laptop.

Cortex

A graphical interface for controlling Predator and Predator Fabric's real-time ALPR capabilities

Optic

A graphical interface for controlling Predator's dash-cam capabilities

Targets

These are network services that communicate one or more core applications over a network.

Gatekeeper

A self-hostable web utility to monitor property checkpoints using Predator Fabric, and issue alerts when a vehicle enters or exits

Manifest

A self-hostable web utility manage license plate hot-lists and ignore-lists for one or more remote instances

Premonition

A license plate data organization service for Predator and Predator Fabric