Scati unveils its new licence plate recognition system

Today, the misdeeds of reckless drivers on the roads are fairly well controlled; breathalyser checks, section speed cameras, police patrols, fixed speed cameras and mobile speed cameras are some of the mechanisms the authorities use to enforce traffic laws, but undoubtedly, traffic in the city centre is less controlled.

Running a stop sign or a red light, or making an illegal turn, are some of the most common offences committed, and they are also the least penalised due to the lack of mechanisms to detect them. For this reason, Scati, a company dedicated to video surveillance, has developed a new licence plate recognition system.

This new system will make it possible to manage and control traffic on urban roads, and to improve security in car parks, petrol stations and motorway toll areas, through licence plate readings taken at multiple geographically dispersed points and managed from a single control centre.

The system, called Scati Plate, is based on the latest intelligent licence plate recognition technology and has a reliability of up to 99% in almost any weather and lighting conditions, capturing and reading plates from up to 15 countries.

In other words, it is like Big Brother, an all-seeing eye that will watch over us at all hours, all centralised in a single room. It is somewhat like what we often see in American films, when we are shown the traffic control centre from where absolutely everything happening in a large city can be seen.

In theory the system promises a lot, but in practice I have doubts about how this huge amount of data can be managed, so let’s wait until it is implemented to find out whether it really works.

Source | Comunicae