The Fully Integrated Solution
 

What's It All About?

  • The camera, located before the railroad safety barriers, takes highly detailed color still images as the vehicle illegally crosses the railroad tracks while the warning lights are flashing.
  • Live-streaming video and archived video of the entire railroad crossing provides supplemental evidence of a crossing violation. Archived video also displays pedestrian violations and acts of vandalism.
  • If requested, front-facing cameras can capture still images of facial details for driver liability.
  • The entire system is completely non-invasive to railroad infrastructure.
  • Each set of violation images includes precise timing details of the violation as compared to the railroad barrier activation time.

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The Gatso Difference: Accuracy & Credibility

  • With less than 1% false trigger rate and the ability to take high resolution color pictures regardless of weather and lighting conditions, the Gatso solution delivers more violations than anyone else tech details
  • The Gatso solution delivers the highest levels of image and data protection to guarantee a secure chain of evidence at all times. From violation to citation. databar details
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  • 50 years of delivering purpose built photo-enforcement credibility, driving integrity into more than 45,000 cameras delivered to more than 60 countries. Whatever your railroad crossing problem looks like, Gatso gets the whole picture.

What's the Next Step?

  • Contact Gatso for a FREE evaluation of how automated traffic photo enforcement would work in your community, and how it can make your roads safer
  • Participate in our next scheduled webinar on RR crossing solutions
  • Read more about our programs and case studies of other cities programs

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The Gatso Red Light Camera Databar Explained

The Gatso data bar provides 17 absolute data elements relating to the violation, superimposed in the picture at the time of the violation inside the camera itself. The data bar and image are treated as one co-joined component as they are transmitted in encrypted format to the data processing center.

  • Image and data-bar tied together AT THE TIME OF violation, inside the camera itself
  • Sequential event number on each image-set
  • Bullet proof CHAIN OF EVIDENCE
  • Date and time of violation – plain English and easy to read
  • Sequential event numbers – means no hiding of poor images
  • Distance to second shot – completely configurable
  • Delay time – completely configurable to match your exact needs
  • Accurate speed – born from your choice of in-ground loops or non-invasive LTR


The data-bar is attached to the photo image in the camera, all in real-time. The Databar includes red and yellow times — to the hundredth of a second.

True Speed

Gatso USA is the only company that uses a non-invasive detection device that is capable of providing true speed. The true speed of the vehicle as it crosses the RR tracks is only possible when multiple speed measurements are taken – only our radar based vehicle detection system does this. Single speed measurement systems cannot provide true speed.

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RR Lights and Barriers

It is important to note clock displays in our data bar are to hundredths of a second as compared to many systems which are to tenths of a second.

Gatso accurately measures the activation times of both the warning signals and barrier activation to ensure the databar accurately reflects the violation timelines.

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Less than 1% False Triggers

Unlike laser and video detection systems, a radar-based detector as used by Gatso is not affected by changes in ambient light or weather. Rain, snow and fog can falsely trigger video loops and bend and deteriorate laser beams. No matter when the violation occurs; day or night, summer or winter, dry or wet; the system accuracy of the Gatso solution remains exactly the same.

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12-bits provides an image 16 times more powerful

In simple terms – using the 12-bit power of the imaging CCD inside the Gatso GS11 camera allows us to look at 4096 slices of the same photograph from completely black to completely white, whereas an 8-bit camera used by our competitors can only give you 256 slices of the same image. The GS11 camera provides a total of 68.7 billion colors and delivers significantly better images, resulting in license plate recognition even under poor lighting conditions.

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Integrated Data Protection

At the very moment the violation event occurs and an image is created, the Gatso camera integrates the data bar to the image. Fourteen key data points surrounding a specific violation are attached to the bottom of the photo at the time of image capture. The uniqueness of this function is only possible with a purpose-built camera for photo enforcement like the GS11 designed and built by Gatsometer. The camera and data bar generating computer are built into a single unit. Off the shelf consumer cameras from Nikon and Canon cannot provide this function.

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Integrated Data Protection

Equally important is the fact that the Gatso databar is attached to the photo and not embedded into the photo. Embedding a databar, as done by several vendors, is born from image manipulation; something that cited owners/drivers and intelligent defense attorneys will latch onto when contesting tickets.

Learn more about the Gatso Databar.



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50 Years of Proven Success

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Geeky stuff #5

GS11 features include another set of things.

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