Visiona Security's SICAM Red Light captures 50.000 red light jump violations

Visiona Security, specialist in security solutions based on computer vision for companies, industry, public and financial institutions, logistics and transport infrastructures as well as license plate reader systems for traffic sectors, has conducted pilot tests during 6 months in 50 Spanish locations with its red photo system, SICAM Red light, with revealing results.

Visiona Security, manufacturer of road safety solutions and citizens based on artificial vision, has piloted its red photo system, SICAM Red Light on 50 localities all over the country during 6 months. SICAM Red Light is a ready-to-start solution based on advanced technology and Artificial Vision that manages, by reading license plates, violations that occur when a vehicle crosses intersections with traffic lights incorrectly.

The teams have been running testing 30 days in each locality. Each town hall has chosen the semaphore crossing where it has been installed, even in some cases it has been moved several times on demand. The daily average of infractions per team has been 35, i.e. an average of 1000 violations by team/month, and a total of 50.000 infringements during the 6 months. This data, that are endorsed by the infallibility of this system that generates 5 frames and a video of 15 seconds of each violation, they also indicate that red lights are not respected, whereas it is necessary to control and reduce these infringements in order to improve the circulation of urban traffic and to reduce the percentage of incidents resulting from them.

Javier Peña, CEO of Visiona Security, Said: "Our goal is to respect red lights. Our experience and the tests carried out have shown us that the driver changes his way of acting for fear of the penalty, in particular we can say that the infringements were reduced by a 42% after the installation of our system. That is why we believe that our SICAM Red Light system, which is foolproof to catch red light violations, it can be the ideal tool to get drivers to respect traffic lights more and, in this way, incidents are reduced".

During this week, the Directorate General of Traffic has launched an awareness campaign called 'Respecting red lights’ which provides some alarming figures such as that last year they occurred 806 accidents with victims for violation of red light jump. the 4% of fatal accidents are attributable to this cause. The jump of red light thus becomes the second most committed fault by drivers in urban area, becoming up to the 17% of the total number of infringements in this area.

"Both the chilling data from the DGT and the results of our pilot tests point in the same direction.: drivers must be made to obey traffic rules and respect signs and traffic lights. The awareness and surveillance campaign launched this week by the DGT is a measure carried out for this, and our SICAM Red Light is a very effective tool that we propose to achieve this objective and reduce the number of infractions and incidents by up to 80%”, peña has concluded.

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