Automatic Number Plate Recognition with AI Erasmus Project

Project Title

Automatic Number Plate Recognition with AI

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Research and innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project found bases on the internationalization plans of the training offer which arise as needs of improvement that emerged in the self-assessment documents, subsequently formalized in the objectives of the school’s curriculum planning documents. Among its specific and general objectives, we underline:
-to promote the acquisition for students of knowledge/skills in the AI sector to stimulate their interest in technical-scientific studies
-promote interdisciplinary coordination of the programming of technical-scientific courses
-underline the central role of AI and laboratory activity in the renewal of scientific education
-introduce active teaching experiences for research and discovery, open to the external context
-set up a group of innovative teachers who transfer the skills acquired during the project to colleagues
– allow teachers to acquire specific skills in the field of didactic research
-to share experiences and improve the didactic and organizational innovation process
-ensuring to students an “European dimension”
-improve the incoming orientation by promoting the image of technical studies as innovative
-strengthen the teaching flexibility with learning to open classes
-promote teacher training with reference to the use of new technologies and management working groups at European level
To facilitate the definition of information flows, tasks and responsibilities, each partner has defined within itself an organizational structure consisting of:
-European Programme Committee: directive and address function
-Departments (Automation and Information Technology courses): coordination activities with recognition of referent teachers and class groups involved
– Students: first year, two 3rd classes (about 50 students aged 16-17); second year, two 2 4th classes (about 50 students aged 17-18) of the Automation and Information Technology courses
-Administration office: organization and management of LTTAs
The task sharing, has been assigned by specific project tasks to each partner school; the project activities and relative time schedule have been already defined and shared between partners by e-twinning, e-mail and skype-call. The detailed planning of the LTTAs foreseen could be found in the framework of the project.
During the first year, each partner will carry out the following preliminary activities:
-analysis of current driveway access control systems of the schools, of current regulations for the privacy protection and of the state of the art for the creation of license plate recognition systems with the use of AI
-identification of the hw/sw macro-elements that make up the access control systems and market analysis execution for the identification/acquisition of the necessary hw / sw components
During the second year, the partners will carry out the following activities:
-design and implementation in the laboratory of a prototype system for access control and its functional testing
-field installation of the entire access control system and its functional testing with the implementation of a management system for malfunctions
The project activities will be carried out both in curricular time and extra-curricular time, will be included in disciplinary programs and will be a subject of specific evaluation.
The information flow between the partners will be done via e-mail and also with other communication tools and sharing platforms (video-skipe-call, whatsapp group, gogle-drive, etc).
For the qualitative assessments, monitoring questionnaires have been developed (Customer Satisfaction “Hot Survey and Cold Survey”) that will be distributed among the target groups internal to the schools and also to local stakeholders.
A proof of the achievement of the project objectives will be the possibility to reuse, in the future, the project driveway access control systems to offer students new teaching units of the technical-professional disciplines involved carried out with CLIL mode.
Dissemination events have been planned both within the partner local communities and outside the other communities involved, which impacts large and diversified “target groups” (families of the students, companies and trade associations that collaborate for the design of PTCO, teachers and students of lower secondary schools).
The design of a logo and the preparation of presentation material are forecast, as well as the drafting of articles for dissemination in local newspapers and on partner websites.
As a future development, we plan to propose a new KA229 project for partnership between schools or a KA201 project, with the involvement of interested universities and associations, regarding the use of AI for the implementation of other sw applications aimed at improving the organization and the functioning of the educational institutions involved.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 111706 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISII MARCONI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Platengymnasiet
• Tehnicka skola Pula
• 134 SU “Dimcho Debeljanov”