The Fully Integrated Solution
 

What's It All About?

First and foremost, a speed camera is a powerful safety tool for your community – it changes the way people drive, resulting in fewer crashes. In addition, there are no upfront costs to your community when working with Gatso – another compelling reason to learn more.

The Fully Integrated Solution

  • The camera takes highly detailed still images of vehicles violating the posted speed limit.
  • Violations are captured regardless of whether the vehicle is approaching the speed camera or receding from it and only one camera is required to enforce multiple lanes of traffic.
  • Each set of violation images details true speed as the vehicle passes the camera and also provides important details such as the location of the camera, posted speed limit, and time of day.

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The Gatso Difference: Accuracy & Credibility

  • No matter which violation metric we're measuring, Gatso measures it more accurately than any other company. tech details
  • With practically 'zero' false triggers and an ability to excel in taking pictures regardless of the weather or lighting conditions, the Gatso solution delivers the highest capture rates, 24/7. tech details
  • Gatso provides the highest levels of digital image and data protection to guarantee a secure chain of evidence at all times, from violation to citation. tech details
  • Enforcement cameras can be fixed at the side of the road, fixed above the road on a gantry, mounted inside a marked / unmarked enforcement vehicle or even placed temporarily at a roadside location, to be moved later to enforce another area.
  • 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 speed problem looks like, Gatso gets the whole picture. Gatso history
  • Integrated AMBER Alert feature added to every red-light camera to help you find the Nations Missing Children even more quickly or other vehicles suspected of serious crimes.

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 red-light-running programs
  • Read more about our programs and case studies of other cities programs

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The Gatso SPEED 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
  • Vehicle type, direction, and speed of vehicle
  • Sequential event numbers – means no hiding of poor images
  • Posted speed limit and camera thresholds


Gatso FIP RS GS11

True Speed

FIP RS GS11

Gatso USA is the only company that uses a detection device that is capable of providing true speed. True speed is possible only when multiple speed measurements are taken – only our radar based vehicle detection system does this. Other companies' non-invasive vehicle detection systems using side-of-the-road laser, forward facing laser, video, and in-road hockey pucks only supply a single speed measurement. Single speed measurement systems cannot provide true speed.

Traffic Light Timing

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. Court cases can be lost when only tenths of a second are displayed. Imagine a violator contesting his ticket on the basis that the data bar in his image shows his 4 second yellow time to be actually only 3.9 seconds. Sympathetic judges have been inclined to dismiss tickets because of a proven short yellow time. The Gatso system is able to display that time as 3.99 seconds thus resulting in the same judge likely sustaining the citation.

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Less than 1% False Triggers

Gatso Police K band antenna

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.

The RS-GS11 radar antenna beam will travel across 4 lanes of traffic and operates in the police K band of 24 GHz.

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12-bits provides an image 16 times more powerful

GS11 Camera

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 time of violation capture the image and databar are combined and digitally signed which assures the file cannot been tampered with. The signed, combined digital image and data are saved in Secure Digital Image (SDI) file format. Although highly improbable, should the signed file be disturbed the Gatsometer software would warn of this and would prevent the file from opening for viewing, replacing the violations images with an error message.

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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.

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50 Years of Proven Success

Amber Alert

Geeky stuff #5

GS11 features include another set of things.

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