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Citilog strives to provide solutions that will enhance Safety, Security and Mobility worldwide.

The following case studies showcase Citilog's know how and creativity in adapting its products and solutions to innovative and ambitious projects:

Reliability and Redundancy…Second to None!

The latest developments of IP video stream integration and smart database management has allowed the Citilog software team to incorporate new features that deliver higher reliability and robustness against hardware failures. With the stringent customer security and safety requirements and today’s improved technology, Citilog can provide the capability of deploying a failsafe operation for your Automatic Incident System (AID).
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Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, traffic cameras, digital video, IP cameras, RTSP, redundancy.

Proactive use of PTZ traffic cameras in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Effective incident detection is key to keeping highways safe, critical infrastructures secure, and traffic flow fluid. The SMART SunGuide TMC in Fort Lauderdale is the perfect showcase for the benefits of this technology. The project is innovative because it uses existing PTZ traffic cameras to perform Automatic Incident Detection and also because the system uses digital video input instead of the traditional analog video.
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Article published in Traffic Technology International, June/July 2008

Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, PTZ traffic cameras, digital video

Intelligent Hard Shoulder: using ITS and Automatic Incident Detection to tackle congestion

The case study describes the implementation of an intelligent hard shoulder on the A4/A86 highways around Paris, France -the biggest bottleneck in Europe. It details the cost and benefits in terms of congestion relief and road safety.
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Article published in Thinking Highways, Vol 3, No 1

Topics: Managed lanes, intelligent hard shoulder, HOT lanes, Incident Detection

Toronto improves incident response

A traffic management system being used to detect disruptions to traffic flow along the Don Valley Parkway, Gardiner Expressway and Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto, Canada, has been enhanced through the adoption of Citilog's VisioPaD video image processing system on 21 of the 57 cameras on the network.
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Article published in ITS International, Aug/Sep 2007

Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, PTZ traffic cameras

Automatic Incident Detection in the A86 tunnels (Paris, France), the largest tunnel infrastructure in the world

Since the Mont Blanc Tunnel tragedy in 1999, driver safety has become the key issue in today's road transport solutions. The largest tunnel infrastructure in the world successfully solves this crucial problem with the most advanced video incident detection system.
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Article published in Traffic Technology International, aug/sep 2005

Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, tunnel

Automatic Incident Detection in New York's Manhattan tunnels

The case study describes the implementation of a video-based Automatic Incident Detection in the 4 New York's tunnels: the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the MTA's Queens-Midtown and Brooklyn-Battery tunnels.
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Article published in ITS International, jan/feb 2005

Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, tunnel

Video-Based Automatic Incident Detection on San Mateo Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area

The case study describes the implementation of a pilot video-based Automatic Incident Detection on the San Mateo bridge in THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. It details the testing procedure and the results.
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Article presented at the ITS World Congress 2005 in San Francisco

Topics: Automatic Incident Detection, Bridge, PTZ traffic cameras