Traffic surveillance

Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre and machine communications group, Emtele, are developing traffic surveillance equipment capable of measuring the distance between travelling vehicles, plus their speed and height.

The new technology will also be able to assess the condition of brakes in HGVs.

The developers anticipate a future version of the system that is able to measure the weight of a moving vehicle and the friction of the road surface.

The equipment, based on VTT’s machine vision technology and Emtele’s information distribution solutions, is expected to provide Finnish road authorities with direct access to the data captured via a movable roadside unit.

The project is being supported by the Finnish Traffic Police, who are sharing their expertise in road safety and enforcement.

VTT hopes that their participation at an early stage will improve the product’s end user benefits.

The machine allows police staff at a control station to identify traffic violations from the data produced.