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PIPS Technology Announces Contract Win.


Industry Leader Awarded Contract for Innovative Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR ALPR Automatic License Plate Recognition
ALPR Argonne Low Power Reactor
ALPR Advanced Lotus Password Recovery
) Technology

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- PIPS Technology, headquartered in Tennessee, has been added to the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 State procurement contract for Hazardous Incidence Response Equipment (H.I.R.E.) for the supply of Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) technology for law enforcement and homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
Department of Homeland Security

executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
 applications (Award Number PC63041).

While the contract is administered by the State of New York, it allows for agencies in 19 states (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee/Shelby County, Virginia, and NY) to purchase directly from the contract at the same price levels. The H.I.R.E. contract provides a convenient way for law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).  to procure ALPR technology at pre-negotiated pricing levels based on the collective purchasing power Purchasing Power

1. The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy. Purchasing power is important because, all else being equal, inflation decreases the amount of goods or services you'd be able to purchase.

2.
 of the thousands of eligible agencies across the country. The contract potentially eliminates the time and expense associated with the process of requesting and evaluating bids.

The contract features PIPS' versatile and patented line of fixed and mobile ALPR solutions, including the award-winning PAGIS PAGIS Protected Areas Geographic Information System  mobile system and Spike+ fixed camera. All of PIPS solutions are integrated by a common back office software solution, BOSS, that provides networking capability across agencies and jurisdictions...enabling powerful intelligence and facilitating interoperability.

"This development further extends our leadership position, and validates the decisions of hundreds of agencies around the world currently using PIPS ALPR," states Brian Shockley, Director of Marketing for PIPS. With over 11,000 cameras deployed worldwide, PIPS is the leading supplier of ALPR technology in the world and the only ALPR provider in North or South America offering design, manufacture, and support of a complete ALPR solution including cameras, processors, optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.  (OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
), software, and support.

About PIPS Technology

PIPS Technology, Inc. is a pioneer and the international market leader in the design and manufacture of automated license plate recognition technology and optical character recognition software. With over 11,000 cameras installed worldwide, PIPS continues to set the standard for both mobile and fixed system deployments across a wide range of applications. For more information visit www.pipstechnology.com.
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