The Automated Enforcement System (AES) made its debut today at the Speed City Mines race track where a demonstration took place to showcase the capabilities of two systems that has been scheduled for implementation in August 2012 in Malaysia by Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalan (JPJ).
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The system is due to come online during this year’s Hari Raya festivities with about 1,000 cameras covering the Nation’s major highways, trunk roads and intersections with their 11 mega pixel cameras and radar detection equipment at all times and during all weather conditions. Of the 1,000 cameras to be deployed for duty, about 20% of these units will be installed at intersections in order to monitor and ensure that traffic rules and lights are obeyed.
Both systems have been certified by SIRIM and both local companies are actually funding their respective systems privately without any financial assistance from the Malaysian Government.
One of the companies, Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd, has been charged with covering 7 states in all (both central and southern regions) of Malaysia with their Redflex Traffic Systems that’s internationally implemented and well-known. This system is capable of capturing both red light and speeding violations, covering up to 6 lanes of traffic, able to distinguish between approaching and receding traffic as well as the vehicles length and class. Upon detecting a single or even multiple violations at any given moment, the Redflex Traffic Systems actually possesses a video camera for secondary speed verification purposes. A powerful flash of white light or invisible infrared illumination has been specifically designed to illuminate your number plate.
The second system basically has similar abilities, except it's being encased within a very streamlined and seemingly robust casing, being implemented by ATES Sdn Bhd which has partnered up with ‘zee’ Germans and their JENOPTIK Robot GmbH system. Their 'robot' system is being touted as the one that's being most widely deployed internationally, seeing action in 80 countries world-wide, and has been charged with managing their system in the northern region as well as in East Malaysia.
Both systems seem to be extremely accurate with the ability of capturing both the driver’s face as well as the registration number, whilst indicating the recorded speed of the vehicle with their sophisticated radar devices. As 5 cars attempted to shoot past the devices at roughly 100kmh – including 1 motorcycle, the results were nothing short of clear as the pictures and respective data emerged.
However, in terms of manning these systems, the respective personnel from both local companies will always be accompanied by JPJ personnel when utilising the mobile-variants of these devices.
Apparently, both systems will need to undergo re-calibration after every 8 months to ensure that everything is working like clock-work as it transmits real-time data for verification and subsequently mailing them out with all the necessary information (including your traffic violation) to your current address.
As usual, there's no disclosure as to any specific whereabouts, except the vague hints of the usual 'black spots' for traffic and speed violations to have the greatest of occurrences. So when you see the sign - take heed...and don't speed.
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