A key benefit of PlateSmart Technologies? award-winning ARES ALPR software is its ability to seamlessly integrate with virtually any camera or VMS. That innovation has yielded PlateSmart another partnership ? this time with the global IP surveillance solution provider VIVOTEK Inc. Called automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) outside of the United States, PlateSmart?s ARES solution has been implemented throughout South America, Europe and parts of Oceania.