The newly constructed highway from Lebuhraya Kemuning to Shah Alam (LKSA) in Malaysia simplifies access to the Southeast Asia country's Federal Highway System for residents of Kota Kemuning, a self-contained township centered on a resort and golf course. The new four-lane, 14.7 kilometer (9-mile) expressway provides a smooth ride and enables commuters to avoid traffic bottlenecks. The toll collection system provides Touch 'n Go lanes in which drivers pay using pre-paid smart cards, and SmartTAG lanes where infrared transceivers mounted on the ceiling of the toll plaza enable collection of tolls as the vehicle passes through.
The newly constructed highway from Lebuhraya Kemuning to Shah Alam (LKSA) in Malaysia simplifies access to the Southeast Asia country's Federal Highway System for residents of Kota Kemuning, a self-contained township centered on a resort and golf course. The new four-lane, 14.7 kilometer (9-mile) expressway provides a smooth ride and enables commuters to avoid traffic bottlenecks. The toll collection system provides Touch 'n Go lanes in which drivers pay using pre-paid smart cards, and SmartTAG lanes where infrared transceivers mounted on the ceiling of the toll plaza enable collection of tolls as the vehicle passes through.
Eight hundred vehicles per hour can pass through the Touch 'n Go lanes, and 1,200 vehicles per hour can pass through SmartTAG lanes. If a driver doesn't pay or doesn't have an active account, enforcement procedures depend on the capture of a clear and legible video image of the vehicle's license plate.
Mohd Azhar Ariffin, Engineering Manager for Projek Lintasan Shah Alam Sendirian Berhad, broadly oversaw the LKSA highway project, which began in 2007. Toll collection is a dependable technology used throughout Malaysia, but standard resolution cameras can be a weak link if they fail to provide readable numbers as license plates pass by.
Arecont Vision megapixel cameras with outdoor housings are used in conjunction with a vehicle monitoring system to clearly view each license plate. The LKSA highway project installation in Malaysia includes Arecont Vision cameras at each toll lane. The Arecont Vision 3 megapixel cameras capture video and snapshots of vehicles passing through the Vehicle Monitoring and Capturing System (VMCS) that also incorporates network video recorders (NVRs) integrated with the toll collection system. Each toll plaza is monitored locally in a plaza control center and centrally by an administration office that oversees both plazas.
The Arecont Vision cameras are JPEG color cameras that provide 2048x1536-pixel images using 1/2-in. CMOS sensor and image processing that incorporates Arecont Vision's massively-parallel MegaVideo architecture, which is capable of sustaining billions of operations per second. Camera features include superior picture quality, low light sensitivity and fast frame rates. Each camera provides many custom-programmable features such as resolution, compression quality, brightness, saturation, gamma, sharpness and tint.
The network video recorders installed in the Malaysia highway project include two GVD M630 NVRs and two GVD M320 NVRs from Genius Vision Digital, which are fully interoperable with Arecont Vision megapixel cameras. TERAS Teknologi, provider of the toll collection system and creator, developer, and leading system integrator of Touch 'n Go and SmartTAG, worked with GVD and CQR to integrate the Vehicle Monitoring and Capturing System.
Additional Arecont Vision megapixel cameras in dome housings are installed in an administration building as part of a networked video system watching over the entire operation. CQR Digital Solutions designed the video system for the administration building using Arecont Vision camera. Hard disk drives from Seagate provide a total of 15 Terabytes of storage, 1.5 Terabytes for each DVR used in the LKSA system.