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Driving smart mobility A range of innovative roadside solutions is helping communities and authorities to reduce emissions, improve road safety and enhance efficiency Words | Stefanie Stäglin, Jenoptik, Germany
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enoptik is a global leader in road safety, smart mobility, and civil security, and provides innovative solutions to make mobility safer and easier. For road safety, Jenoptik provides state-of-theart photo enforcement technology to positively impact driver behaviour and enhance road safety. This includes speed and red-light cameras, as well as many other enforcement applications. Jenoptik technology also helps roadway operators to manage traffic flow, emissions, congestion, and tolls. Special expertise relates to automatic number plate recognition (ANPR). These systems capture, analyze, and help to act against public safety threats such as serious organized crime and border control violations using real-time predictive data analysis. As cities become smarter and mobility becomes more autonomous and connected, Jenoptik contributes to make future mobility smarter, safer, greener, and more efficient. All applications are supported by a powerful back office that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze the multitude of data collected in real time and reports hazard alerts, rule violations and other anomalies. Jenoptik also provides extensive services that cover the entire process chain including operation, automated data processing and analysis. With global experience based on more than 30,000 delivered systems worldwide, in-house engineering and design along with local know-how supported by a strong partner network in more than 80 countries, Jenoptik helps to make the roads, journeys, and communities safer.
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The reduction in NO2 levels in some areas of Wales attributed to Jenoptik average speed cameras
Above: Vector ANPR average speed camera
Getting closer to vision zero
Equipment and systems that improve road safety are important. But these alone are not enough. Today, traffic cameras must fit into modern
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infrastructures, contribute to sustainability, and offer flexible options for a wide range of technical applications. One example is Jenoptik’s new TraffiPole. This has an award-winning modern design, is sustainable, quick to set up and offers many options for integrating the latest traffic monitoring technologies. TraffiPole is a new housing system that enables more sustainability and emission reduction. The TraffiPole climate housing has been developed to meet both high design and sustainability requirements. It fits well into a modern cityscape and enables both cost-effective operation and energy-efficient cooling of the installed electronic components without the need for air conditioning. The upper oval segment houses the non-invasive measuring system with camera and sensor to enable accurate speed measurement across multiple lanes, red light detection with lane
indication and offender vehicle marking in the violation images, as well as vehicle classification in approaching and departing traffic. Other functionalities such as ANPR and additional sensors for emissions measurement are available as options with the Vector camera. TraffiPole’s highly functional double-wall design enables efficient air circulation, eliminating the need for air conditioning even in very hot climates. This special design helps to significantly reduce power consumption and thus reduces CO2 emissions of up to 1.74 tons per year. In addition, TraffiPole is made entirely of recyclable aluminum and the design elements on the outside can be exchanged for solar panels to support self-sufficient operation. With its new TraffiPole housing, Jenoptik has convinced the German Design Council’s jury. TraffiPole was awarded a Special Mention in the Excellent Product Design/Public
