Atkins add Smart CCTV to their national traffic survey framework.

Atkins, the major engineering consultancy has added Smart CCTV as an approved supplier to their national traffic survey framework agreement.

Smart CCTV, through its use of video analytics is able to offer additional capabilities, for example speed estimation from video to the range of solutions available in the traffic survey marketplace.

Nick Hewitson, Managing Director of Smart CCTV, commented “We are very pleased to be confirmed as a new member of the Atkins framework agreement at a time when customers are looking to reduce their supplier base in line with the market conditions. We feel this is a major endorsement of our innovative solutions and we look forward to working with Atkins to provide them and their clients cost effective solutions to their traffic data capture requirements.”

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Citilog appoints Smart CCTV as their Authorised Value Added Reseller for the UK

Smart CCTV have taken over responsibility for the sales and support of the full Citilog range of Video Incident Detection, Traffic Management and Data Collection products throughout the UK.

Eric Toffin, VP of Sales at Citilog, commented “ the combination of Citilog’s leading edge product range of video based incident detection systems and above ground sensors combined with Smart CCTV’s proactive approach will bring enormous benefits to Highways Authorities and the System Integrators in the UK.”

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PeekMouchel has approved Smart CCTV as a supplier of CCTV and intelligent video traffic equipment

PeekMouchel the East and East Midlands TechMAC for the Highways agency has approved Smart CCTV as a supplier of CCTV and intelligent video traffic equipment covering video incident detection and traffic surveys

Our supplier approval to Peek Mouchel covers the installation of trchnologially advanced CCTV solutions for the Highways Agency network in a large part of Eastern England. Nick Hewitson, Managing Director Smart CCTV, commented “ we are very pleased with this agreement as it complements our existing sub contract agreement with Atkins who are the Highways Agency MAC in Area 6 East Anglia. We are therefore now able to undertake work across a wide part of this region of the UK.

Smart CCTV has completed a retail traffic survey in a well known High Street named branch.

We looked at the number of people accessing the aisle relating to a specific product type, how long they stayed in the area and if they reached into the gondola to remove an item. This data was then used by the retail market research specialists to compare how the store was operating against the expected norms.

Smart CCTV has completed a series of 7 day traffic surveys across an English National Park.

Due to the sensitive nature of the environment great care had to be taken to ensure that there was minimal environmental impact. Our CCTV and Radar based survey equipment had to be battery powered for the full length of the surveys both to reduce the carbon footprint due to site visits and to minimise the environmental impact of vehicles stopping at the survey sites.

High Mast Video Partner with Smart CCTV for NHS Trust car park survey

In conjunction with one of our Partners High Mast Video Ltd, we have completed a major car park survey for a NHS Trust. Based around our Smart ANPR camera technology, we were able to measure the average stay lengths in the hospital car parks. This data will be used by the trust to better understand how their facilities are being used.

EnterpriseMouchel Ltd appoint Smart CCTV as a subcontractor under the Highways Agency Area 3 Managing Agent Contractor (MAC) Contract

EnterpriseMouchel have appointed Smart CCTV as an official Traffic Survey partner of work in the Highways Agency Area 3 region.

Smart CCTV’s ability to automatically enumerate traffic data and journey times from video information offers EnterpriseMouchel a more reliable and cost-effective method of obtaining “before and after” traffic flows when implementing projects on the road network.

Business Excellence Awards

Smart CCTV was delighted to win the Small Business of the Year Award organised by the Portsmouth News and sponsored by the University of Portsmouth.

The judges were apparently impressed not only by the company’s financial performance but our commitment to staff training where despite the economic downturn we have increased our investment to ensure that as we come out of the recession we have a more skilled and therefore productive workforce.

For more information please see: Business Excellence Award Winners 2009

Pay per mile for drivers could be here in 2020

Published Date: 13 November 2009
By Sion Donovan
The government could use sat navs to impose a pay-as-you-go tax on car owners, a Portsmouth conference was told.

Transport experts who gathered at the city's university were told the continuing development of in-car technology meant that levying motorists for the number of miles they drive could become a reality by 2020.

Frederic Bruneteau, one of the speakers at the Intelligent Transport Systems conference, said that increasingly over the past 18 months motorists have been buying sat navs or smart phones with a two-way connection.He said the devices, which allow drivers to receive and send information about traffic and weather, were still relatively expensive today.

But, he said, by 2020 it is predicted they will be the norm, which could allow governments to charge motorists variable road tax depending on how far they drive.

Mr Bruneteau, who is managing director of Brussels-based navigation consultancy Ptolemus and who formerly worked for Vodafone and sat nav firm TomTom, said the 'e-tolling' technique was already being used in long- haulage trucks in Europe.

He told the conference that the same could apply to private cars if governments were serious about cutting down road journeys and slowing climate change.

Mr Bruneteau said: 'Instead of everyone paying the same road tax, drivers will pay depending on how far they drive. So if you drive less, your road tax will be lower. People can then see a real financial gain which should encourage people to drive less, which is better for the environment.

'Road haulage trucks in Europe already do this. There are projects looking at it for cars in Sweden and France. In the Netherlands there are 200 people in the government working on it.'

But while the technology will be widespread by 2020, and European nations are exploring its uses in the run- up to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Mr Bruneteau said moves towards e-tolling in the UK were slow. He said: 'There's no certainty it will happen. Such a system would need to be robust if it's to be done on a wide scale.

'But the technology is there. 'It's whether there will be the political will to do so. Britain is lagging behind many European countries for the moment.'

HI-TECH

Hi-tech CCTV that is being used to spot criminals before they strike could be used to ease motorway traffic jams before they become a problem.

The technology is being used in Portsmouth's CCTV control room and is programmed to watch out for certain suspicious behaviour or incidents.

This could include a car being driven at excess speed, someone loitering for longer than normal in a car park, or people coming together in known drug-dealing areas.

The Perceptrak system, produced by Smart CCTV Ltd of Havant, then sends out an alert if it records something suspicious.

Speaking at the Intelligent Transport Systems conference at the University of Portsmouth, the firm's managing director, Nick Hewitson, said such technology could be used to ease congestion on motorways, including the M27.

Mr Hewitson said: 'If the system sees a car break down on the hard shoulder then a call can be sent to the AA for a recovery vehicle to remove it before it slows down too much traffic.

'It's done automatically, rather than depending on human observers who get bored watching hours and hours of CCTV. The technology won't stop congestion but it will reduce the length of time people are stuck in jams.'