What if you could find the vehicle before it left the neighborhood?
Imagine this: A call comes in. A child has been taken during a custody dispute. The suspect fled in a silver SUV. No plate, no name. Just panic and a partial description from a gas station attendant.
In most cities, that would start a long, uncertain chase. Officers would flood the area. Leads would trickle in. And hours, sometimes days, could pass before real progress is made.
But with Axon’s vehicle intelligence solutions, something different happens.
Within seconds, Axon Outpost, a compact, solar-powered ALPR camera perched quietly on a nearby pole, flags a match: silver SUV, roof rack, visible bumper sticker. It sends the alert to Axon Fusus, which instantly cross-references the livestream with a dozen other nearby feeds, pulls the path of travel, and pushes it straight to officers in the field. Within minutes, the child is found safe.
No guesswork. No delay. Just a verified match, routed straight to the officers already responding.
Introducing Axon’s new vehicle intelligence solutions
Each year, over 75% of crimes in the U.S. involve a vehicle, but identifying and finding the right vehicle is the hardest part. Unveiled at Axon Week 2025 by CEO Rick Smith, our suite of vehicle intelligence solutions is a decisive leap forward in seeing, searching, and responding to vehicle-related crime.
You no longer have to make tradeoffs when it comes to ALPR deployments. License plate recognition, livestreaming, new cameras, or existing infrastructure, it all works together in one ecosystem.
With Axon, a hotlist alert doesn’t sit in a dashboard waiting to be reviewed. It becomes a live event with real-time livestreaming for faster, safer apprehension of vehicles of interest and resolution of incidents.
Every piece of this ecosystem is designed to work together. Data feeds from Axon and partner cameras, vehicle search workflows in Axon Fusus, and evidence management in Axon Evidence connect so your agency can unify intelligence across your community.
Smarter cameras, bigger Impact
With Axon, turn existing infrastructure — from streetlights to retail cameras to neighborhood security — into intelligent, plate-reading crime-fighting assets.
Axon Outpost is a powerful fixed camera solution that combines ALPR, livestreaming, and vehicle attribute recognition in a single solar-powered device. Outpost can easily be deployed on new or existing poles, buildings, trailers, vehicles, or trees.
Axon Lightpost, meanwhile, developed in partnership with Ubicquia, turns your streetlights into 3-in-1 smart cameras with ALPR, livestreaming, and vehicle attribute recognition as well — allowing you to expand coverage without new poles, trenching, or delays. Lightpost installs in under an hour and delivers actionable intel from day one.
And through our Works With Axon program, existing community devices, from business security cameras to community CCTV systems, become intelligent data feeds in Axon Fusus and integrate alongside Axon devices. That means fewer rip-and-replace decisions and more value from investments you’ve already made, allowing you to build upon your community’s existing network without starting from scratch.
Unify your intelligence and find what matters
Axon Fusus, our real-time operations platform, provides visibility and insight across any certified camera, not just Axon cameras.
With Axon Fusus as the connective tissue of your ALPR data feeds, each feed becomes part of a unified intelligence layer. Whether it’s an Axon camera, a city pole cam, or a third-party integrated solution, your agency can:
Search by plate, color, make, and even partial identifiers across all video sources — fixed, mobile, or third-party
Get real-time hotlist alerts directly within Fusus
Mark reads for review, visualize patterns, and generate heatmaps
Seamlessly move critical footage into Axon Evidence for more efficient case resolution
It's not just about finding a plate. It's about connecting the dots across your entire data ecosystem, so you can find a stolen car faster, recover missing property in a fraction of the time, and bring a missing person safely home to their family.
Extend your reach when you choose to
Your data stays in your system by default. When it helps, you can invite a specific neighboring agency to see hotlist matches from your cameras, and they have to accept before anything flows. Nothing is copied, the data stays under your rules, and either side can end the connection at any time. Want the deeper breakdown of why that's an architecture decision and not just a policy promise? How to choose an ALPR system built for long-term accountability.
Ready to see it in action?
Axon Vehicle Intelligence is live today, connecting Fleet 3, Outpost, Lightpost, and Works With Axon cameras into one search and alerting experience inside Fusus.
If you're looking to extend the reach of your existing cameras, fill coverage gaps fast, and turn every camera into part of a connected search and alerting platform, get in touch.
Let’s build the future of public safety. Together.