I was Busted by Video Analytics

Recently I went on a roadtrip with some friends to south Spain.  We rented a car for a few days, went down to Sierra Nevada for some nice skiing, and returned the car in Madrid happy that in over 700 Kms. driven we hadnt gotten pulled over by police. Talk about celebrating too early....

SURPRISE SURPRISE, 3 weeks later a 100 euro speeding ticket arrived in my mailbox. 

Those damn traffic cameras (see one below)! 

I had forgotten that with Video Analytcs technology you dont need to get pulled over by a police car to get a ticket!!!

Video Analytics software is allowing municipal governments around the world handout tickets to  speeding drivers without any police intervention.  The software continuously scans the video being shot by the cameras when it detects a vehicle is passing, it uses an algorithim to determine the vehicle's speed, and if  they are speeding, it will snap a shot of the vehicle's license plate and trasmit the data for the ticket to be issued.  All in all the ticket arrived in less than 2 weeks after the incident!  As you can see the camera got a nice shot of my rent a car and included the details of my speed, time and place where i got caught, pretty impressive! 

 

So i learned my lesson the hardway, video analytics does work and now i know to stay at or below the speed limit even if there are no police in sight! 

In addition to being used for detecting speeding drivers, video analytics is also used to detect vehicles going the wrong way, drivers that burn red lights or are parked incorrectly and to provide statistics on traffic patterns. 

To see more on how video analytics is assisting with Traffic Management please follow this link:

http://www.traficon.com/page.jsp?ref=principles&id=8&parentId=3