How to Use IQSIGHT LPR with the Genetec Security Center ALPR Module
The short version: IQSIGHT's tutorial on plugging its LPR feed into Genetec Security Center shows how plate surveillance is becoming a modular, plug-and-play layer bolted onto existing camera systems.
Our Take
This isn't a Flock video, and that's exactly why it's worth flagging. IQSIGHT's walkthrough of integrating its license plate recognition engine into Genetec's Security Center ALPR module is a reminder that automated plate readers aren't a single-vendor problem — they're becoming a standard plug-in for the security-industrial complex. Once a property, campus, or city already has Genetec's video management platform installed, adding plate tracking is framed as just another module to enable, no different from motion detection or access control.
That framing is the real story. When surveillance capability gets treated as a checkbox feature inside software already running thousands of cameras, the decision to start logging every vehicle that passes a lens stops being a distinct policy choice and starts being an IT default. Credit to IQSIGHT for a technically clear how-to, but clarity about installation doesn't answer the harder questions: who can query this data, how long it's retained, and whether the public or oversight bodies ever get a say before the module gets switched on.
We track this kind of infrastructure precisely because it spreads quietly through integrations like this one. If you want to see how far plate-reading cameras — Flock's and otherwise — have already spread near you, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back than just watch it happen, our take-action page has concrete steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of IQSIGHT, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.