What is happening in the world of Speed Cameras?
Date: Monday, April 04 @ 17:40:33 UTC
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We quite often attend technology shows such as CES, and The Gadget Show, but last week we attended a completely different exhibition about roadside technology. Roadside technology covers a whole gamut of things from energy absorbing signs and barriers, through to traffic management, and of course Speed Cameras.
The exhibition is actually an amalgamation of 3 separate, but related, events. There is Traffex, Parkex and Streetdesign, all with a focus on transport. I was interested in the Traffex and to a lesser extent Parkex as these are directly related to our interests.
The main "takeaway" from the show was that Average Speed Cameras is the way to go, which of course we already knew. However this time there is competition in the marketplace.
Last time we visited Traffex we interviewed Geoff Collins of Speed Check Services about the new SPECS3 networked average speed camera systems (click here for the report). At that time the SPECS3 were in the process of obtaining Home Office Approval (HOA) for implementation. At that time SCS were the only manufacturers of HOA average speed cameras.
In the two years lots of changes have occurred in the industry and there are now (or will be shortly) three different Average Speed Camera companies competing for the business of the Safety Camera Partnerships. These are Vysionics, RedSpeed and Siemens. This article describes the various systems in operation.
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