Navic reads millions of number plates every day throughout the country. Storage is a challenge.

Navic, a contraction of National Vehicle Intelligence Cloud, uses a network of around 4 000 static and mobile cameras across South Africa, equipped with automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology and optical character recognition (OCR) to read vehicle number plates. “Owning cameras is not our primary focus; we’re a Platform-as-a-Service business,” says Iwan Campher, the company’s CFO. “We supply the technology that delivers the intelligence by leveraging computer vision and OCR, AI and machine learning, and realtime data processing and analytics.”