Q-Free to provide ISS in Texas toll road project

Q-Free is to deploy its Intrada Synergy Server (ISS) in an IBM contract to upgrade the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDoT) toll road back office. Q-Free says the vehicle identification and automatic number plate recognition system will reduce TxDoT’s number plate image processing costs by processing daily video transactions. ISS is a component of IBM’s integrated solution that can process millions of number plate images from the tolling system video cameras, the company adds. TxDoT is respons
September 10, 2019 Read time: 1 min

108 Q-Free is to deploy its Intrada Synergy Server (ISS) in an IBM contract to upgrade the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDoT) toll road back office.

Q-Free says the vehicle identification and automatic number plate recognition system will reduce TxDoT’s number plate image processing costs by processing daily video transactions. ISS is a component of IBM’s integrated solution that can process millions of number plate images from the tolling system video cameras, the company adds.

TxDoT is responsible for 230 miles of toll roads that run through the city of Austin and the counties of Harris, Montgomery and Chambers.

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