UK city council adds school safety solution to hosted civil enforcement platform

Portsmouth City Council is adding school safety to the range of enforcement applications running on its hosted digital video platform. The council has started by deploying the Videalert system outside schools where illegal parking in keep clear areas has been identified as putting children’s lives in danger.
August 30, 2016 Read time: 2 mins

Portsmouth City Council is adding school safety to the range of enforcement applications running on its hosted digital video platform.  The council has started by deploying the 7513 Videalert system outside schools where illegal parking in keep clear areas has been identified as putting children’s lives in danger.

The cameras are being installed after a survey of parents, teachers and school governors showed an overwhelming 84 per cent support for this initiative. They will operate in conjunction with Videalert’s hosted civil enforcement platform that was deployed in 2015 to capture bus lane contraventions.

The Videalert system combines automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) with video analytics to deliver the highest productivity at the lowest operational cost.  Using a single PTZ camera, it continuously monitors the keep clear zones and automatically captures only the drivers that are stationary in defined ‘watch areas’ and exceed the ‘watch times’. Trained council operators can access the dedicated hosted server and review the evidence packs using standard web browsers. 

Confirmed offences are then transmitted to the council’s 4186 Xerox SI-Dem back office processing system for the issuance of penalty charge notices.

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