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ICT infrastructure for the Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Center

Completion of ICT infrastructure for the Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Center. The Automatic Road Traffic Monitoring Center (CANARD) has completed the development of ICT infrastructure for automatic recording of driving offenses. Today, it is one of the most modern solutions of this type across Europe.

The project of “Construction of a central system for automatic traffic surveillance” is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and will be implemented until the end of 2015. The first components of the system were launched in July 2011. In June 2014, the Central Processing System was set into operation in order to enable automatic processing of data for recorded driving violations.

“CANARD utilizes the most advanced technologies, both within its control and measurement infrastructure and IT solutions. It should be emphasized that the Central System functionalities cover a number of interrelated areas. Therefore, when implementing a new IT solution, we needed to take this aspect into account, as well as compliance with our high performance requirements,” says Marcin Flieger, Director of CANARD.

The CANARD’s Central Processing System has been developed by Asseco Poland. Over a period of 18 months, the contractor provided and launched the data processing center, created software necessary to support all the required system functionalities, as well as conducted trainings for CANARD employees. The system has been implemented within the contractual deadline.

The Central Processing System is intended to ensure maximum automation of data exchange which is associated with road traffic offenses. Innovative, automatic speed trap cameras equipped with wireless communication send information about driving offenses to the Central Processing System. The system verifies such information for compliance with formal requirements as well as for the possibility of further proceedings and, subsequently, it reads the vehicle registration number. On this basis, details of the vehicle owner are retrieved automatically from the Central Register of Vehicles. In addition, the system supports the process of generating any documents applicable in offense proceedings, including summons and fines, as well as in judicial proceedings. A separate component is dedicated to the fine collection process. Thanks to the applied IT solutions, the General Inspectorate of Road Transport is able to remotely configure all their recording equipment, manage the entire infrastructure, as well as to prepare operating analyses of the automatic traffic surveillance system. The system is fully scalable and can be extended with additional solutions to increase road safety, such as section speed controls or monitoring of red-light driving.

In the development of the Central Processing System for CANARD, the main focus was placed on the use of innovative products and technologies that originated in Poland in recent years. These include, among others, the software for automatic identification and classification of vehicles which, together with services and data provided by the Central Register of Vehicles and Drivers, make it possible to identify the vehicle owner very quickly. For maximum security and flexibility, this solution also incorporates a number of open source technology products. Such approach to the implementation of IT projects becomes more and more popular in the Polish public administration.


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