Mustafa Siddiqui briefing about new point-to-point speed radar at Milipol exhibition yesterday. Abdul Basit
By Fazeena Saleem
DOHA: High tech radars which detect vehicle speed more accurate are set to boost traffic monitoring system in the city very soon.
High tech speed radars with the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) - a remote sensing technology that can measure the distance, which are now seen installed at the area near the Doha International Airport for experiment, are likely to begin functioning next week.
“We work together with the Ministry of Interior’s Traffic Department. The radars now fixed are on a testing phase, they will be operational very soon, may be next week. These radars will be fixed in all parts of the city,” said Mustafa Siddiqui, Head of Application and Laserfiche Solution, ITQAN Technologies, speaking to The Peninsula at the Milipol 2012.
Overtaking and tailgating vehicles can also no longer escape detection. The advanced technology is both multi-lane and multi-object capable, allowing reliable speed detection in places where conventional radar enforcement systems and speed guns are challenged. They would perfectly function even in built up urban areas, at road works, on bends, in tunnels and at road sections with poor visibility.
“A speeding car can run away or hide from a usual radar. But Light Detection and Ranging technology can monitor six lanes at a time, therefore a driver cannot change the lane and hide from the camera,” said Siddiqui.
“Sometimes vehicles slow down when they come near a speed detector. But through the new speed detecting radars system that too will be monitored. There will be a point to point monitoring system. Speed and time between two points will be calculated and the radar will detect if the vehicle is going over the speed limit,” explained Siddiqui.
The laser-based LIDAR speed enforcement camera is available as a fixed or mobile version. PoliScan speed is a system for traffic enforcement made by Vitronic.
The measurement is based on the principle Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR). By time of flight measurement, a scanning laser determines speeds and positions of all vehicles in the measurement area.
Apart from the use as speed camera, the systems of the PoliScan family are also used as red light camera and for automatic number plate recognition.
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