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Developments in video incident detection

Traficon is presenting a new multi-functional video image processor for traffic control, called the VIP-IP. The first Automatic Incident Detection (AID) board analysing for analysing images coming from network cameras, the board has been developed to respond to the upcoming trend towards IP cameras.
February 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min
5574 Traficon is presenting a new multi-functional video image processor for traffic control, called the VIP-IP. The first Automatic Incident Detection (AID) board analysing for analysing images coming from network cameras, the board has been developed to respond to the upcoming trend towards IP cameras. VIP-IP integrates automatic incident detection, data collection, vehicle presence detection, digital recording of pre and post-incident video sequences and streaming video in one
board for a variety of traffic management applications such as tunnels, highways and bridges.

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