KEYGON Top-Selling LPR Devices | Smart License Plate Recognition Systems

Our Take

Keygon Alice's rundown of the company's top-selling LPR devices reads like a product catalog for parking garages and gated communities, and that's exactly the point. This isn't Flock Safety pitching police departments on a public safety narrative — it's a straightforward sales video for camera hardware marketed to HOAs, apartment complexes, and private lots. The framing is mundane: access control, parking management, convenience. But the underlying capability is identical to what fuels larger surveillance networks — capture a plate, log a timestamp, store the location, build a pattern of life.

What videos like this make clear is how normalized and cheap this technology has become. You don't need a municipal contract or a city council vote to deploy a plate reader anymore; you can buy one off a vendor page the same way you'd buy a security camera. That's a problem, because the privacy risk doesn't scale down just because the buyer is a property manager instead of a police department. Data from these systems can still be aggregated, sold, subpoenaed, or breached, often with far less oversight than exists for government-run ALPR programs.

We credit Keygon Alice for a clear look at the hardware side of this industry, since most public attention stays fixed on Flock. But the lesson for readers is the same either way: plate readers are proliferating in places most people never think to look. Check our map to see what's already been documented near you, and visit our take-action page if you want to push back on unchecked camera deployment in your own community.