UK Home Office

The National ANPR Data Centre (NADC) provides national real time analysis of sensor data used for major crime and counter terrorism effort.

The NADC provides real time hotlist matching, real time data mining tools and historical data mining tools.

NADC is a substantial data warehouse and at the time of installation it was the largest Oracle Database in Europe. The NADC assists the UK Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) denying criminals use of the roads.

The current solution has the storage capacity to hold ALL sensor sightings for a period of 5 years and to make the full data set available for analysis. This phase of development also introduced mapping tools to aid visualisation of information on a local and national level.

The services required by the client were:

• Feasibility, business case and benefits analysis
• Outline design
• Proof of concept
• Review of options for integration of all UK based ANPR assets
• The production of the concept, detailed design and tender documents for the overall integrated NADC solution
• Pilot system
• Phases of development between 1998 to 2008
• Go Live at end 2008
• Technical consultancy services and Project Management
• Contract Management
• Testing and implementation support
• Maintenance management support