1. Status Report #05 AVTS Automated Vehicle Tracking System David Brenner Caleb Douglas Ahmed Elsherif Michael W. Timme An automated license plate detection system used to build a database for law enforcement to utilize when searching for vehicles. Feb 20 th 2012

2. Need for Design Aid in the apprehension of suspects and the rescue of abductees in the event that vehicular information is known. Milestones Assembly – 02/24/2012 GUI Completion – 03/1/2012 Server Integration – 03/30/2012 Data Encryptions – 04/10/2012 License Algorithm Completion – 04/17/2012

3. Recent Tasks Established administrative access to the server and the database Established an algorithm for character isolation based on character projection

4. Interfacing GPS with Panda Board Improve character recognition Further research in image enhancement Design team webpage completion Enable file transfer to the server Data encryption Finalizing power circuitry Ongoing Tasks

5. Upcoming Tasks Develop algorithm collect/send data Possible need for image compression Test server, send and receive data Develop database and GUI Design system hardware Set up a meeting with Dr. Grigoryan

6. Block Diagram

7. Schedule