KEEP — City-Owned ALPR

The status quo

The camera network you don’t control

The market leader leases cities cameras that feed a nationwide database — queried across agencies, shared beyond the buyer, and impossible for a resident to opt out of.

Leased

You rent, forever

Cancel the subscription and the cameras come down. The city never owns the hardware or the data.

Networked

Pooled nationally

Reads flow into a shared database queried by thousands of other agencies — beyond the buyer’s control.

Opaque

Accountability is optional

Audit and transparency are toggles the agency may or may not turn on. There is no public opt-out.

Exposed

Access leaks

2025 audits found hundreds of thousands of unauthorized, out-of-jurisdiction lookups.

The KEEP model

Sentries watch. The Keep holds. Only the city has the keys.

Same managed convenience — KEEP deploys and maintains everything — but the architecture makes reselling the data structurally impossible.

The Sentries

The cameras

Deployed and maintained by KEEP. On-device recognition — only plate metadata leaves the pole.

The Keep

The city’s vault

Every read lands in the city’s own cloud account — not a vendor’s. There is no national pool to join.

The Keys

City-held encryption

Data is encrypted with keys only the city holds. KEEP runs the platform but cannot read the data.

The Data Path

Where a plate read goes — and where it doesn’t

Three steps from the pole to the city’s vault, and nowhere else.

Step 1

Sentry Reads

On-device recognition at the pole. Only the plate metadata travels on — never live video.

Step 2

The Keep Holds

It lands in the city’s own cloud account, encrypted with keys only the city holds.

Step 3

The City Acts

Authorized staff only — and every single look is written to an immutable audit trail.

The data never joins a national network, is never sold, and the city can revoke any outside access at any time.

The console

Everything patrol, investigators, and oversight need

One operations console — live from a five-sentry demo corridor. Try it yourself.

Live map & hit feed

Every sentry, every read, in real time on one map with a docked live feed.

Fingerprint search

Find a vehicle by color, make and type — no plate required.

Convoy analysis

Surface vehicles that travel together — associates, without any national network.

Immutable audit

Every search and export is written once, hash-chained, and can never be altered.

Traffic analytics

Volume, composition, out-of-state share, hotlist effectiveness — all on your data.

Public transparency

An embeddable page of aggregate numbers — and exactly who holds read-only access.

City Owned
Never Sold