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Tattile ANPR cameras are now compatible with Bosch’s security system BVMS

February 17, 2021

 

 

 

Tattile ANPR cameras are now compatible with Bosch’s security system BVMS

 

 

 

Premium ANPR smart camera provider Tattile has partnered with Bosch Building Technologies for a plugin of its Tattile intelligent traffic cameras to be integrated in BVMS – the comprehensive security solution from Bosch. Through the cooperation Tattile automated number plate recognition cameras become part of an integrated security, safety and video management solution allowing for quick license plate recognition. Tattile’s cameras extract the number plate at the edge directly from the image on the camera itself and thereby eliminate the need for separate software which reduces installation effort significantly. Compatibility is currently ensured for Tattile Vega Basic; Tattile Vega Smart; and Tattile Vega1 with BVMS 10.1 (or newer).

The integration currently allows for two main use cases. One is the creation of blacklists for real-time notification about the appearance of a certain vehicle. With these blacklists operators are notified immediately if a blacklisted number plate is detected by one or multiple cameras, allowing them to track the vehicles pro-actively and prevent further incidents. The license plate blacklist can be individually configured from BVMS by uploading and editing a text file in the image pane. The text file is then sent to the Tattile cameras via FTP. Vice versa, the integrated BVMS alarm management triggers a real-time alarm in if a vehicle which is listed in a blacklist is captured by one or multiple cameras, ensuring that operators are notified immediately and can react accordingly. The second use case which is actually covered by the Tattile/ BVMS integration covers forensic search of vehicles for post-analysis. This functionality enables operators to find all detections of a certain number plate in a given time period, allowing to easily see the different vehicle locations over time and gives operators an overview how the vehicle moved through their area of interest.

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Tattile: Innovative mobile parking enforcement

January 27, 2021

 

 

 

Tattile: Innovative mobile parking enforcement

 

 

 

Parking enforcement today is still time consuming and therefore costly task since traffic wardens need to patrol continuously parking spaces to verify possible parking offence.

Tattile is glad to present an intelligent mobile parking enforcement solution, allowing targeted personal intervention when the system detects an actual parking offense.

 

 

In the layout of this mobile parking enforcement system a driver who intends to park can either use a mobile parking App to book and pay a parking area for time needed. This can be done by entering the car license plate and the credit card data. Alternatively, where possible the user can pay directly at the parking meter by inserting plate number of the car and selecting how many hours the car will remain parked.

Regardless of choosing the mobile App or the Parking Meter, the registered data of date, time, license plate and paid parking time are sent to a centralized server. Through a Wi-Fi connection this external database exchanges information in real time with connected mobile parking enforcement devices, typically tablets, which are carried in police cars and are connected to a mobile ANPR camera. If a parked vehicle now exceeds the payment time, an alarm is triggered on the tablet and the traffic warden can specifically search the parking area with the ANPR system for the violating license plate and issue a fine.

 

 

The all-in-one Tattile mobile ANPR system includes a monochrome mobile enforcement camera for license plate reading as well as a color camera to additionally record the infringement which can be shared in an independent video stream. Its embedded monitoring software performs automatic license plate reading of all crossed vehicles and a real time check with the database. If a blacklisted vehicle with no paid or expired parking time is detected and acoustic alarm is triggered, and the tablet display shows a photo cutout of the license plate.

The extremely low power consumption of less than 15W a 12 VDC enables power over the vehicle battery. The high-grip magnet allows mounting the mobile enforcement camera on the vehicle roof in less than two minutes and enables to dismount and use it in a different vehicle in very short time.

In addition, the system layout easily allows third party back office integration and tailor-made adaptions, such as sanctioning platforms of provincial councils or the option to send infractions to the Automated Complaints Processing Centre.

 

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Tattile: Sarajevo police installs license plate detection cameras to convict offenders

December 18, 2020

 

 

 

Tattile: Sarajevo police installs license plate detection cameras to convict offenders

 

 

 

The Police Directorate in the Sarajevo Canton of Bosnia has implemented 18 Tattile Vega Smart 2HD cameras based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms primarily to detect speed violations and vehicles with documented crime offenses. The cameras are part of the SPARTA system and in addition to their key function of automatic number plate recognition enable embedded brand, class, and color and model recognition of each passing vehicle. The main purpose of the traffic security system is to document speed violations; to detect vehicles whose registration has expired as well as stolen vehicles; and to identify vehicles where a criminal offence of the owner is documented in order to alert law enforcement officers either in back-office (web based app) and on the field (mobile app).

 

 

“With the help of these smart cameras for traffic surveillance, the police officers have accurate documentation on the vehicles in violation. Even if police fail to immediately stop the offender, the violation is stored in the device’s memory and transmitted to a central database. As such it is almost impossible to avoid punishment. Once you exceed the speed limit, you will be penalized, and the same goes for the second time”, a representative of Sarajevo police explained and added that the district plans to acquire up to 15 additional traffic monitoring cameras.

 

 

SPARTA as a traffic security solution enhances violation management and is developed according to police requirements to automatize and reduce violation processing. At the core of the system used in Sarajevo district is a Tattile smart camera with best ANPR software in the field for vehicle plate recognition.

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Tattile: Smart camera traffic surveillance for anti-terrorism measures in Belgium

December 01, 2020

 

 

 

Tattile: Smart camera traffic surveillance for anti-terrorism measures in Belgium

 

As a consequence of the terrorist attacks which shocked Paris and the whole world in 2015, the Federal Government in Belgium approved an anti-terrorism plan to ensure safety in everyday life for the Belgian population. Among the measures defined one of the most important action to put in place was the installation of an advanced video surveillance system using new and mature technologies for various applications, including automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) for use in the road system.

 

 

The main requirements set by the authorities for such ANPR (ALPR) technology were a robust high reading performance in all weather and light conditions as well as advanced capabilities for vehicle recognition analytics within the system. At the end of the evaluation process the federal police in Belgium chose the smart ANPR camera system Vega Smart 2HD from Tattile for all automatic number plate recognition processes along motorways and cities across the country. Up to now, more than 500 Tattile ANPR cameras have been deployed.

 

In practice, the license plate software of the Vega Smart 2HD traffic surveillance cameras read the license plates of all vehicles that transit the camera positions. These license plate data are matched continuously with the national vehicle database. In addition, the Vega Smart 2HD on-board intelligence also enables to recognize vehicle features independently from the plate number. The integrated smart vehicle recognition algorithm allows triggering and sending alarms in case a specific vehicle passes under the camera and helps solving specific situation when automatic number plate recognition is not enough, such as when police forces only know the brand and colour of a wanted vehicle or criminals keep the same vehicle but change the license plate.

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Tattile: Traffic surveillance and monitoring in the Spanish capital

November 17, 2020

 

 

 

Tattile: Traffic surveillance and monitoring in the Spanish capital

 

 

Spanish traffic authorities (Dirección General de Trafico) have chosen Tattile cameras for a road surveillance project in the Spanish capital Madrid. Altogether 45 Tattile Vega Smart 2HD cctv traffic monitoring cameras have been installed for two main purposes.

 

The first use case involves 14 cameras which are used to control the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes (Vehículos de Alta Ocupación or VAO) in the greater area of Madrid. Road control takes place in both ways: in the morning when commuters enter the urban area of Madrid as well as in the afternoon after normal office hours when the traffic streams leaves the city again. The smart ANPR traffic cameras are used to count the number of vehicles using the VAO lanes and, at the same time, to create an origin-destination matrix.

The 31 remaining Tattile Vega Smart 2HD cameras have been deployed to analyze the traffic flow along the radial highways which are departing the center of Madrid. The information taken by these traffic surveillance smart cameras are used for different purposes such as origin-destination; definition of the travel time, and various statistics.

 

In addition to these everyday tasks, the newly installed Tattile traffic surveillance and monitoring cameras are used for specific campaigns, such as to check if vehicles have insurance coverage and a valid technical revision plate which is requested by law.

Tattile: First alpr technology supervised railroad crossing in Argentina

October 23, 2020

 

 

Tattile: First alpr technology supervised railroad crossing in Argentina

 

 

 

According to local authorities of the city of Pilar in Argentina, on average 60 vehicles per day crossed the unsupervised railroad crossing of the San Martìn railway even when the train barriers were closed, and a train was already approaching. This led to negotiations between the railroad company Trenes Argentinos and the municipality of Pilar to install a mechanism avoiding accidents caused by these unauthorized crossing of the tracks using traffic monitoring cameras with number plate recognition software.

Finally, the first intelligent low-barrier railroad crossing enforcement system in the country was implemented using a Tattile Vega Smart Red Traffic Light camera. The intelligent ALPR camera is activated each time the railroad barrier closes and takes a picture of each vehicle passing the railroad crossing when the barrier is down. The alpr camera software inside the Tattile red light traffic camera reads the license plate of the vehicle causing the violation. With this information the infringement is documented allowing the authorities to issue fines which go up to $ 13,000.

An additional benefit the new smart traffic camera-based crossing enforcement system also warns Trenes Argentinos in case of a malfunction of the signals protecting the railway crossing to quickly place operational staff on-site to enable drivers to cross the intersection.

Since the problem of unauthorized crossing of closed railway barriers exists in many other intersections of rail and road across Argentina, plans are to expand this project to other areas such as Moròn, Tres de Febrero, Quilmes and San Miguel in order to further reduce low-barrier railroad violations through applying alpr technology.

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Tattile: Smooth free flow tolling in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

October 07, 2020

 

 

Tattile: Smooth free flow tolling in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

 

 

 

Tattile Vega Smart cameras are a preferred choice for electronic free flow tolling systems in many countries across the globe. As such they have also been chosen for two tolling projects recently deployed in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Both projects included the installation of stationary enforcement gantries equipped with Tattile Vega Smart 2HD cameras to continuously control if trucks using the highway have paid the relative toll fee. 50 Vega Smart HD cameras have been installed on gantries above Slovakian highways and further 180 cameras in the multi lane free flow tolling system on the highway network in the Czech Republic in order to maintain 24/7 toll monitoring.

The motion and real-time licence plate identification algorithm together with OCR running inside the camera make the Vega Smart 2HD a reliable non-invasive solution for recognition of transiting vehicles up to a speed of 250 km/h. Furthermore, a vehicle recognition algorithm can optionally be uploaded easily in the camera like the concept of apps in modern smartphones. This algorithm then delivers additional ‘BCCM’ information including the vehicles´ brand, colour, class and model. These further classification parameters allow generating a unique fingerprint of each vehicle to complement the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) accuracy and thus increase reliance of smooth free flow tolling.

All Tattile smart anpr (alpr) cameras on the monitored road networks send their image data of the moving vehicles to the central enforcement system of the free flow toll system. Here, the actual control process is performed and in case of traffic offence fines are generated for the unlucky drivers which were detected by the camera eyes of Tattile Vega Smart.

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Tattile contributes smart camera technology to Weight in Motion System on new Genova Bridge

September 09, 2020

 

 

 

Tattile contributes smart camera technology to Weight in Motion System on new Genova Bridge

 

 

 

The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genova as a major Italian strategic transport line on 14 August 2018 which caused 43 victims will remain in the memory of the Italian people. As such, it can be taken as a symbol for the strength of the Italian nation that in less than two years after the disaster the newly constructed viaduct was inaugurated in Genova on 3 August 2020. Despite the extremely ambitious construction period one lesson learned from the catastrophe was to massively invest in the static surveillance of the new infrastructure. The old viaduct was already equipped with basic motion sensors under the road deck which detected movement of the deck. However, these sensors were not able to trace back the causes of the movements.

 

As a consequence, the constructors of the newly erected San Giorgio Bridge in Genova decided to install a much more comprehensive system of structural monitoring which provides a constant and complete picture on what happens on and with the infrastructure. The entire structural monitoring system now includes not only sensors under the platform to detect movements. In addition, four Tattile Vega Basic cameras are mounted above the bridge to monitor the traffic flow and detect license plates. These Tattile cameras are connected to a Weight in Motion System designed by iWIM which detects and records the weight of the axles and the gross weight of the vehicles as they pass over a sensor integrated in durable steel plates installed on the road surface of the viaduct. All the data generated from the sensors and cameras is sent to a central server enabling a clear picture of what happens on the bridge at any time. By integrating Weigh in Motion technology with the combination of Tattile Vega Basic cameras on the new San Giorgio it is now possible to correlate structural deformations to the weight that weighs on the infrastructure; and to trace the weight load caused by individual vehicles crossing it. As such the combination of sensors and smart cameras acts as an early warning system and facilitates management and planning of interventions in the stability of the infrastructure as well as preserving investments such as repaving the asphalt.

 

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Tattile: Madrid police cars patrol with mobile ANPR cameras

August 18, 2020

 

 

 

Tattile: Madrid police cars patrol with mobile ANPR cameras

 

 

 

Policia Municipal de Madrid has equipped 25 of their police patrol cars with mobile ANPR/ALPR cameras provided by Tattile. Each of the vehicles now carries a modern and equally simple architecture consisting of two ANPR cameras connected to a tablet computer. The information generated by the cameras focusses on photos taken from vehicles and herein the automatic number plate recognition. These number plate data are matched in extremely low latency with specific blacklists in a database.

 

 

This method using the integrated vehicle plate recognition software allows checking a number plate on several kinds of possible violations such as the absence of vehicle insurance, the absence of a valid technical revision plate, but also crime offences such as stolen vehicles or duplicated number plates.

Thanks to its embedded functionalities (OCR on board, GPS and Access Point Wi-Fi Integrated) and its low power consumption of just 15 W the Tattile ANPR mobile cameras allow quick ANPR camera installation in the police carand movement from one vehicle to another. This makes it the most suitable mobile ANPR police system solution for law enforcement in both in-vehicle installations and for mobile tactical operations.

Tattile: Maximize toll system efficiency in Serbia

July 14, 2020

 

 

Tattile: Maximize toll system efficiency in Serbia

 

 

The tolling infrastructure in the Repulic of Serbia currently covers over 900 highway kilometres with 65 toll plazas; a dense network that requires quick and efficient throughput of vehicles in order to provide a minimum time delay for all drivers. On about 270 toll lanes Tattile Vega Basic short-range cameras are installed for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) purposes, one camera per lane located at the lane entrance. When a vehicle enters the toll lane the Tattile ANPR camera is digitally triggered taking pictures of the vehicle front side to recognize the license plate and send the image via TCP connection to the lane controller.

This vehicle plate recognition information is merged with data received from other parts of system according to the respective payment method. On the manual toll lanes ANPR data are additional data used for better vehicle identification. The data is written onto the magnetic cards used as evidence of regular entry to the system and later for charging on the highway exit lanes.

For the Electronic Toll Collection nonstop lanes the ANPR data from the Tattile number plate recognition cameras are vitally important. Here, the ANPR data needs to be read out up to 200 meters ahead of the crossing point in order to obtain fast and secure vehicle transits and the Tattile ANPR camera software can prove their stable performance against sun flare and in all kind of weather conditions during day or night. On ETC lanes ANPR camera data are compared with automatic vehicle classification and additional On-board Unit (OBU) data in order to maintain successful nonstop transit through the toll lane for a free flow toll system.

As the highway network in Serbia is constantly expanding cameras ANPR camera manufacturer Tattile expects to have further installations at toll lanes in new toll stations. Additionally, the licence plate detection cameras of Italian origin are part of the retrofitting tolling system modernization project in Serbia.

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