The London Borough of Newham has installed a CCTV-based system, to provide unattended enforcement of bus lanes and moving traffic contraventions with a focus on box junctions (pictured). The contract was awarded to OpenView Security Solutions, under the ELS framework agreement, which is available to all London boroughs.
At Newham, Carl Brown, Operations Manager Enforcement and Safety said: “An important factor in the decision-making process was to ensure that the chosen solution was open-standards based to avoid being locked in to a single supplier. Videalert ticked all the boxes with a Digital Video Platform that uses standard off-the-shelf equipment to seamlessly integrate with our existing CCTV systems and fibre/wireless network infrastructure. As well as supporting existing analogue cameras, it allows a progressive migration to mixed analogue/digital camera environments.”
The latest ONVIF Profile S certified digital HD cameras and processing units have been deployed at some 22 locations across the east London borough that have seen driver non-compliance. Newham also bought what the product developer calls a significant amount of additional data storage capacity to accommodate system expansion at other sites identified as requiring enforcement.
Tim Daniels, Sales and Marketing Director of Videalert said: “Our platform has a proven capability to operate effectively in busy urban environments, delivering unattended enforcement in all traffic conditions regardless of vehicle speeds and proximity to each other. Combining ANPR with video analytics ensures that only those vehicles actually committing an offence are captured which significantly speeds up the manual review process and increases productivity. This additional intelligence also enables enforcement to be carried out in areas such as bus lanes where there is adjacent parking so drivers are not penalised when entering or leaving their spaces.”
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The system automates the making of video evidence packs which are reviewed by council operators prior to sending confirmed offences to back office processing for the issuance of PCNs. It also enables Newham to potentially share captured data with other stakeholders for other applications such as crime prevention, community safety, traffic planning and journey time monitoring using the same camera assets.
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