Plymouth based UK Company, Audax, have developed an Automatic Number Plate Recognition system utilising the Dacolian Intrada engine. Their system has been designed and developed in conjunction with serving ANPR/ALPR police officers and, most recently, has been exhibited and demonstrated at both IFSEC 2007 and ACPO-APA 2007 in the UK.

Adam Liardet, the Director for Audax said “Unlike competitor products, this technology allows us to recognise the various international licence plates and their varying fonts. This is a major advance on previous technology and coupled with the tried and tested Dacolian engine we look forward to a very successful partnership”

The system, which also uses progressive scan technology, has exceeded all expectations and is adaptable to continuously evolving technology as well as customer preferences

For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact Adam Liardet from Audax (+44 (0)1752 334400).

Recently Goudappel Coffend has secured a project from the Dutch Government to monitor and process the transport of dangerous goods on several hundreds of locations throughout the Netherlands. This project is conducted in close cooperation with Connection Systems, responsible for the mobile road side video recordings, and Dacolian, responsible for the processing and analysis of the video material. Manual checks by Goudappel Coffeng have proven the superior quality of the 24x7 video based Intrada Service traffic analysis.

For more information contact Mr. Martie van der Vlist from Goudappel Coffeng (+31 570 666870).

Dacolian will be exhibiting and demonstrating its latest Intrada vehicle identification software at the 2007 ITS America Annual Meeting & Exhibition. We will be sharing a booth with Extreme CCTV, a leading supplier of imaging technology and vehicle image capture technologies. The exhibition will be held 4-6 June 2007 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs California USA. Come by and visit us at Booth #864.

Q-Free has secured a contract to develop and implement a national electronic road-user charging system in its home country of Norway. The contract includes full replacement of the central systems for electronic toll collection in Norway (AutoPASS), which will be gathered into one national system. Starting from November 2007, all transactions generated by traffic through all AutoPASS toll stations in the country will be handled by the new system. Intrada ALPR will be used in the central system to deal with the large variety of images delivered by the toll stations.

For more information contact: Q-Free