Siemens snaps speeders

Speeders or people running red lights in the Austrian town of Mödling will get their tickets faster than before, because the city is introducing digital radar devices from Siemens. For the first time in Austria, pictures of traffic violators no longer have to be developed but are digitally transmitted to the traffic violation office.

Until recently, Mödling’s radar systems were equipped with rolls of film which had to be replaced, developed and manually processed. The new Siemens solution reduces the handling effort to a minimum, because pictures of speed violators, people going against traffic and red-light runners are now taken digitally and transmitted wirelessly to a data centre for further processing. Eleven old stationary sites and one radar site were equipped with the new systems. Three measurement cycles are currently performed in a rotation specified by the community.