Alcatel delivers an integrated video surveillance solution for the busiest Romanian highway

Alcatel announced the official inauguration of its state of the art video surveillance solution for the DN1 highway, one of the busiest highway in Romania, from Bucharest to Azuga, in the presence of the Minister of Interior, Vasile Blaga, the Minister of Transports, Gheorghe Dobre, the Head of Delegation of the European Commission in Romania, Jonathan Scheele, the Police Department Chief, Dan-Valentin Fatuloiu and the President of Alcatel in Romania, Dan Bedros.
 
The contract, awarded by the Romanian General Police Inspectorate, covers a 140 km section of the DN1 highway. Alcatel's solution allows the Traffic Police Department to better handle the traffic on this route, and thus increases the safety and security of drivers.

Alcatel is responsible for the turnkey supply of the end-to-end solution, including design, systems integration, engineering, installation, commissioning, testing, training and project management. This solution is based on video technology and integrated with additional subsystems from best-in-class third party partners for speed measurement and enforcement (speed control), automatic number plate recognition, accident automatic alarm, traffic analysis, and data transmission on a 90 km optical fiber network. The new video surveillance infrastructure serves three control centers along the highway in Barcanesti, at the Police Academy in Bucharest and in Sinaia.

'This project reduces the traffic risk on a major highway in Romania.' said Vasile Blaga .

'In the near future we will develop as well an advanced traffic management center, capable of analyzing and processing the existing information and of generating complex reports. We will be able to offer to the public appropriate information on web sites. The communication between the existing control centers will be improved', said Dan-Valentin Fatuloiu.

2005-12-07