Tolling

Advancing Toll Road Enforcement with AI

Toll road management has been a prime application area for video analytics since its inception. In today’s landscape, it’s inconceivable to envision a highway or expressway without the presence of gantries and camera stands. Naturally, technology steps in to validate this intricate process, especially given the potential for enormous vehicle throughput. Although tolling follows a linear process (similar to parking), it occurs at breakneck speeds:

Road Entry Event: This marks the initial information pickup opportunity.

Gantry Throughpass Event: Here, vehicle identification occurs, and relevant data is collected for authorization verification.

Toll Payment Validation: This step takes place either at or immediately after the gantry ID.

At Asura Technologies, our commitment to tolling compliance involves methodical and fast validation of these critical checkpoints. Our video analytics solutions span the entire compliance process:

Comprehensive Vehicle Data Collection: We meticulously gather detailed parameters for each throughpass event.

Cross-Referencing and Rule Adherence: Vehicle data is cross-referenced with payment records, blacklists, and custom rules set by the operator.

Consequence Determination: Based on rule clearance status, we execute predefined triggers.

With years of comprehensive toll road video analytics experience, we grasp the most common objectives and challenges. Our solutions focus on innovative and adaptive solutions to expand the capabilities of highway data collection systems, leveraging the newfound competencies unlocked by AI.

Challenge

Solution

Triggering

Legacy systems relied on radars and scanners to initiate camera reads, aiming for punctuality. However, the narrow calibration of these devices often struggled to accommodate the diverse range of vehicles during data pickup.

AI Triggering

We scrapped the idea of using extra sensors like radars for triggering. Constantly processing camera video stream, Asura’s object detection-based video analytics employs learning algorithms to identify vehicles within frames. This is how we not only reduce equipment cost but thanks to AI-vision precision, also operate with increased detection rate.

Accuracy Levels

Pre-AI video analytics operated on fixed rules and predefined scenarios to detect and classify vehicles. Unfortunately, they were susceptible to errors and data loss due to changing environmental conditions.

Precise Performance

Asura’s proprietary video analytics software enables high precision operation on all levels of data collection even in high-speed environments. Witness the unparalleled accuracy of automated vehicle categorization, make & model recognition and license plate recognition enabled by the power of AI.

Obstructive Enforcement

Many toll roads worldwide employed RFID scanners or toll booths for collection, hindering user experience and decreasing overall efficiency.

Free Flow

The most significant impact of our AI vision solutions is that road users no longer need to stop. They effortlessly pass under the gantry, while our cameras and software handle the rest.

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Tolling

Advancing Toll Road Enforcement with AI

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