P&D Specialist Services acquired by Torquay Group
Torquay Group has announced its acquisition of CCTV and specialist electrical solutions provider P&D Specialist Services. The acquisition, says the Torquay Group, will strengthen its capability to deliver fully integrated solutions across traffic management, infrastructure projects, and public safety. P&D’s portfolio extends beyond highways into permanent safety camera systems, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, festive lighting, […]
CCTV at bus stops to be rolled out across London after positive impact
The use of CCTV cameras at bus stops is set to be rolled out across London after a trial scheme made female passengers feel safer. TfL has been piloting the idea at 20 bus stops as part of Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan’s wider efforts to reduce violence against women and girls. Now the scheme is to be expanded after having a […]
Safety: TfL begins CCTV bus shelter trial and enforcement officer night patrols
TfL is working with the Metropolitan Police to develop and trial the use of CCTV cameras at bus shelters in London. The initiative is to explore the benefits for preventing and detecting crime and anti-social behaviour and investigating incidents, improving customer confidence to travel on the bus network. The safety of TfL’s customers and staff […]
TfL told fining drivers using CCTV is illegal
Fining motorists by post using CCTV camera evidence has been ruled “illegal”. The Telegraph newspaper reports a special test case found that Transport for London had “illegally” fined motorists who had stopped on parking bays on red routes in the capital, breaching government guidance by using CCTV rather than traffic wardens to enforce road rules. […]
Telent to deliver national CCTV works for the SMP Alliance
A contract for the installation of CCTV cameras, on the UK’s ‘smart’ motorways network, has been awarded to critical digital infrastructure specialists Telent. The cameras are a crucial component of the SMP Alliance’s programme to increase lane capacity on the strategic road network by embedding roadside technology. Telent’s contract, delivered as part of the Alliance’s […]
First phase of new multi-sensor camera technology delivered to ensure safer and greener streets across Hammersmith & Fulham
As part of a £5m project between London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (H&F) Council and leading technology solutions and services provider, North, new state-of-the-art CCTV cameras have been installed across the borough. White City Estate and Shepherds Bush Green districts are the first to benefit from the installation of the cameras which monitor a […]
How a combined radar and CCTV solution is used in traffic data collection
Smart Video & Sensing Ltd helps Portsmouth City Council and National Highways capture traffic data and identify potential queueing traffic near the end of the M275 motorway in Hampshire, UK by deploying the smartmicroTM TRUGRD STREAM intelligent traffic radar with built-in CCTV. Here Peter Eccleson, owner of SVS explains the solution. More details about this […]
SVS installs UK’s first radar-CCTV hybrid vehicle monitoring solution in Portsmouth
A first of its kind vehicle monitoring system using both CCTV and radar in the same unit has gone live on the M275 in Portsmouth. The system, brought to the UK by Smart Video and Sensing, features a radar capable of monitoring up to 12 lanes of traffic which has a two megapixel camera built […]