Case 14: TESS Digital Capture Unit
Product: TESS Digital Capture Unit
Background: TESS is a digital automated monitoring and enforcement company with facilities in both Australia and Malaysia. Their product lines are based around two core products, TESS Digital Capture Unit and the TESS RFID Number Plate.
How it works: TESS utilise a combination of Idris profiling software and TESS hardware and software as the detection technology behind the system. The open architecture of the products means the core products can be configured for any ITS solution, enforcement application or integrated into existing programs, such as Idris. Integrating Idris software into the TESS detector provides the Digital Capture Unit with first class detection capability, reliability and accuracy.
Using the capabilities of Idris advanced algorithms, TESS also generated different classifications for a variety of vehicle classes. These not only provide road authorities with the capability to enforce different limits for the different classes, but also provide a valuable and highly accurate insight into road usage and vehicle speed by class, as part of traffic logging analysis. These statistics provide road authorities with powerful information about road usage trends and represent an integrated approach to traffic enforcement and monitoring solutions.
With both front and rear of vehicle triggering options, validated and proven detection and speed accuracy, the TESS/Idris combination can be applied to any automated detection and enforcement environment.
Proven technology: Rigorous research and development ensured the technology remained as accurate and efficient as possible, whatever the conditions. A rolling road system was developed to allow both front and rear of vehicle triggering with up to four levels of speed validation. This provided absolute and objective proof of a vehicles speed. |
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The TESS red light and speed enforcement systems went through a full systems trial in Malaysia. Not only did the system perform faultlessly, the Idris profiling software highlighted its detection strengths. TESS comfortably identified even the smallest of motorcycles travelling in the extremities of their lanes, ensuring that every vehicle was detected. Showing its flexibility, TESS demonstrated accurate detection of five different classes of vehicle, with varying speed enforcement limits. All of the TESS / Idris detection classification speeds were verified with high resolution GPS displays.
This added to successful testing already carried out with the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales on a busy multi-lane roadway, proving the detection solution works in both flowing and stop, start heavy traffic conditions. Here the detection capabilities of the Idris/TESS combination were tested against existing industry providers and excelled for both detection volume and accuracy. The Digital Capture Unit has since been installed in Sydney and as of December 2009 gazetted as an approved device.
Future projects: TESS is now finalising the integration of the TESS RFID Number Plate (its other core product), the TESS/Idris-based detector and the TESS Digital Capture Unit to cater for more advanced ITS applications.
The Idris Technology is protected by one or more of the following patents:![]()
EP0879457, USA 6345228, 6483443 and 6337640
Registered Patents also include but not limited to European Countries, Brazil, Mexico, Canada & Australia.
Idris® is a registered trademark of Diamond Consulting Services Ltd.
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