Pioneering a Safer and Smarter Future
with Intelligent Character Recognition

1991 – The foundation of ARH.
Two brothers, a shared vision, laid the foundation for Adaptive Recognition.

1992 – Releasing our first license plate recognition software
Releasing our first license plate recognition software, known today as Carmen®

1994 – A year of breakthroughs
Breakthrough projects propel ARH to market leadership, including access control system at Budapest Airport Cargo.

1996 – First foreign projects
The ARH brand become recognized.

1998 – First purpose-built ANPR cameras
manufactured, using our in-house designed hardware parts.

2000 – First identity document reader
devices manufactured.

2003 – Introducing FaceIdent,
our face recognition solution later integrated into our passport reader software for verifying face portraits of identity documents.

2005 – Introducing our first software
for container code recognition.

2006 – Introducing our first passport reader
with RFID chip reading capability. In the meantime, our scanners read and verify more and more identity documents globally.

2011 – Creating our first end-user solution: the LetUGo parking system (later redesigned as ParkIT System).
Introducing the Combo Scan and Combo Smart ID scanner product lines, the first scanner series optimized for the commercial sector’s requirements.

2013 – Introducing our traffic database solution (GDS) and our multi-lane traffic monitoring endpoint (TrafficSpot).
Implementing the Hungarian nationwide toll control system (HU-GO) and opening our first office abroad (in Florida, USA).

2015 – Adding CCTV product line to our portfolio
and completing the Hungarian road traffic security system (VÉDA)

2017 – Upgrading the HU-GO project
with the world’s most extensive weigh-in-motion system

2018 – Beginning to build
our worldwide representative partner network

2019 – Launching the test system of our
brand-new robotized manufacturing. Watch the video →

2020 – The ARH brand becomes Adaptive Recognition.
Launching ANPR Cloud, the cloud-based version of the Carmen® plate recognition software. Introducing the Osmond Passport Reader and ID Scanner to the market.

2021 – Going to market with two innovative ANPR
cameras: Einar for parking access control and Vidar for all types of traffic monitoring. The latter features a built-in laser trigger technology, which is unique on the market.

2022 – Three new members are added to the Vidar camera family:
Vidar Side Scanner for Axle Counting, Vidar PAX for passenger counting, and Vidar Container for container code reading. Introducing the AutoFill software to facilitate automatized data entry. Also introducing Carmen® Box and Carmen® Nano, the NVIDIA® JetsonTM platform-based versions of our ANPR intelligence.