In a weather-proof, UV-resistant housing, with battery and solar panel for charging, designed to meet municipal and traffic safety specs, and with turn-key service, all at the usual markup for dealing with all that and because there are almost no competitive alternatives, it sounds pretty typical.
Even a simple stop sign is hundreds of dollars when you consider all the costs associated with its installation.
The starting value of felony
Probably the pole, footing, and wages for the installation crew.
The markup I assume
All the reasons in the other repliues, and it's also not just an ALPR.
Framing Flock as just an ALPR always feels disingenuous to me. More charitably, it's at least naive.
And even if it WAS and will only ever be an ALPR, I'm incredulous that people would accept it.
A quick google reveals a Flock camera costs about $2500 and there's a few hundred dollars in install fees.
Go tear one down and see for yourself. We don't want to ruin the surprise for you.
High quality cameras are expensive.
Equivalent quality cameras can be had for 100-200. Not that expensive.
In a weather-proof, UV-resistant housing, with battery and solar panel for charging, designed to meet municipal and traffic safety specs, and with turn-key service, all at the usual markup for dealing with all that and because there are almost no competitive alternatives, it sounds pretty typical.
Even a simple stop sign is hundreds of dollars when you consider all the costs associated with its installation.
Look up guardrail guy's video on their installs. They are not up to code. Even the newer installs that do include breakaways are failing.