Newham installs Videalert platform for bus lane and traffic contraventions

The London Borough of Newham has installed Videalert’s CCTV-based system to provide unattended enforcement of bus lanes and moving traffic contraventions with a focus on box junctions. The open network video interface forum Profile S certified digital high definition cameras and processing units are based at 22 locations that have high levels of driver non-compliance. Newham has also invested in additional data storage capacity to accommodate future system expansion at other sites that need enforcement
March 9, 2018 Read time: 2 mins

The London Borough of Newham has installed 7513 Videalert’s CCTV-based system to provide unattended enforcement of bus lanes and moving traffic contraventions with a focus on box junctions. The open network video interface forum Profile S certified digital high definition cameras and processing units are based at 22 locations that have high levels of driver non-compliance.

Newham has also invested in additional data storage capacity to accommodate future system expansion at other sites that need enforcement for a range of contraventions.

Videalert automates the construction of video evidence packs which are reviewed by council operators before sending confirmed offences to the back office processing system for the issuance of penalty charge notices. The solution also has the potential to allow the Borough to share captured data with stakeholders for other applications such as crime prevention, community safety, traffic planning and journey time monitoring using the same camera assets.

The contract was awarded by OpenView Security Solutions, under the ELS framework, which is available to all London boroughs.

Carl Brown, operations manager enforcement & safety, said: “An important factor in the decision-making process was to ensure that the chosen solution was open-standards based to avoid being locked in to a single supplier. Videalert ticked all the boxes with a digital video platform that uses standard off-the-shelf equipment to seamlessly integrate with our existing CCTV systems and fibre/wireless network infrastructure.  As well as supporting existing analogue cameras, it allows a progressive migration to mixed analogue/digital camera environments.”

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