Tolling Projects

As such they have also been chosen for two tolling projects recently deployed in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Both projects included the installation of stationary enforcement gantries equipped with Tattile Vega Smart 2HD cameras to continuously control if trucks using the highway have paid the relative toll fee. 50 Vega Smart HD cameras have been installed on gantries above Slovakian highways and further 280 cameras in the multi lane free flow tolling system on the highway network in the Czech Republic in order to maintain 24/7 toll monitoring.

The motion and real-time licence plate identification algorithm together with OCR running inside the camera make the Vega Smart 2HD a reliable non-invasive solution for recognition of transiting vehicles up to a speed of 250 km/h. Furthermore, a vehicle recognition algorithm can optionally be uploaded easily in the camera similar to the concept of apps in modern smartphones. This algorithm then delivers additional ‘BCCM’ information including the vehicles´ brand, colour, class and model. These further classification parameters allow generating a unique fingerprint of each vehicle to complement the automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) accuracy and thus increase reliance of smooth free flow tolling.

All Tattile smart anpr (alpr) cameras on the monitored road networks send their image data of the moving vehicles to the central enforcement system of the free flow toll system. Here, the actual control process is performed and in case of traffic offence fines are generated for the unlucky drivers which were detected by the camera eyes of Tattile Vega Smart.

a dense network that requires quick and efficient throughput of vehicles in order to provide a minimum time delay for all drivers. On about 270 toll lanes Tattile Vega Basic  short range cameras are installed for automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) purposes, one camera per lane located at the lane entrance. When a vehicle enters the toll lane the Tattile ANPR camera is digitally triggered taking pictures of the vehicle front side to recognize the license plate and send the image via TCP connection to the lane controller.

This vehicle plate recognition information is merged with data received from other parts of system according to the respective payment method. On the manual toll lanes ANPR data are additional data used for better vehicle identification. The data is written onto the magnetic cards used as evidence of regular entry to the system and later for charging on the highway exit lanes.

For the Electronic Toll Collection nonstop lanes, the ANPR data from the Tattile number plate recognition cameras are vitally important. Here, the ANPR data needs to be read out up to 200 meters ahead of the crossing point in order to obtain fast and secure vehicle transits and the Tattile ANPR camera software  can prove their stable performance against sun flare and in all kind of weather conditions during day or night. On ETC lanes ANPR camera data are compared with automatic vehicle classification and additional On-board Unit (OBU) data in order to maintain successful nonstop transit through the toll lane for a free flow toll system.

As the highway network in Serbia is constantly expanding cameras ANPR camera manufacturer Tattile expects to have further installations at toll lanes in new toll stations. Additionally, the licence plate detection cameras of Italian origin are part of the retrofitting tolling system modernization project in Serbia.