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Further Middle East contract for Jenoptik

German traffic solutions manufacturer Jenoptik, which has already successfully installed systems in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia, is to equip a further 600 sites in Oman with the company’s latest speed and red-light monitoring systems. Jenoptik will also provide assistance with planning, carry out training, upgrade existing systems, supply and install software for an incident processing centre and support the commissioning process. The order, received from Waleed Associates and the
December 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min
German traffic solutions manufacturer 79 Jenoptik, which has already successfully installed systems in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia, is to equip a further 600 sites in Oman with the company’s latest speed and red-light monitoring systems.

Jenoptik will also provide assistance with planning, carry out training, upgrade existing systems, supply and install software for an incident processing centre and support the commissioning process.

The order, received from 6570 Waleed Associates and the Royal Oman Police, includes stationary speed enforcement systems based on the latest radar technology and fitted with the high-resolution Jenoptik Robot SmartCamera IV. The red light monitoring systems utilise the company’s 3-D tracking sensor, which can simultaneously monitor several vehicles and lanes and which can record both red-light and speed violations simultaneously.

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