Traffic congestion is constantly rising, and the flow of traffic and safety improvement is becoming more of a priority.
Organisations such as the Highways Agency are responsible for the maintenance and management of England’s motorway network with regional control centres managing and monitoring traffic conditions, as well as providing information to drivers and dispatching Traffic Officers to traffic incidents.
In an attempt to increase the efficiency of existing infrastructures, Road Management Agencies need to find cost-effective ways of monitoring the traffic network without the significant spend and disruption usually associated with the deployment of motorway cameras. One of the areas they are moving into involves using wireless technology to reduce the overall capital cost of installation of road management CCTV infrastructures.
The mobile units that are a key part of traffic safety are particularly suited to the essentialVision solutions, which can be set up quickly and remotely. Using the widespread GPRS and 3G mobile networks, the essentialVision encoder with its proprietary codec enables superior quality real-time video images to be distributed to multiple viewers at the control centres. External agencies such as local authority traffic managers, Highways Agency staff and patrol officers can all view the same camera feeds simultaneously when monitoring an incident.