(openPR) - Wiesbaden / Dubai. The Dubai Police recently honored VITRONIC as the best enforcement supplier 2011. A ceremony was held to award a prize to the police’s partners who significantly contributed to reducing the number of road fatalities in Dubai. VITRONIC is the only company from the speed enforcement sector that was honored.

“I am very happy about this important recognition and I am proud to be able to help increasing road safety in Dubai as a partner,” says Youssef Al Hansali, CEO of VITRONIC Machine Vision Middle East LLC. Ten mobile and 17 fixed PoliScanspeed systems for speed enforcement are currently operating on Dubai’s roads. The Dubai Police’s recent statistics show that the VITRONIC systems generate significantly more cases than competitors’ systems. Speeders are reliably caught which has already led to a change in driver behavior since speed enforcement has started in Dubai. The Dubai Police is confident that their goal to drop fatalities to zero in the next ten years is achievable.

Poliscanspeed systems operate with a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) based measuring principle. A scanning laser is used to measure the speeds and position of every vehicle in the tracking zone. This way violations can be identified on multiple lanes at the same time, even if vehicles tailgate or change lanes. Other than radar the laser-based measurement operates without any difficulties in curves or road-work areas.

Since its foundation in 1984, VITRONIC GmbH, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, offers machine vision systems in industrial automation, logistics and traffic technology. The product range spans from standard products to individually customized solutions. All products are developed and produced in-house by VITRONIC. VITRONIC's core competence in the field of traffic technology is the enforcement of vehicles in free-flowing traffic. State and local authorities as well as private service providers use VITRONIC products for increased road safety. Tolling system operators use these technologies for automating toll collection and enforcement. The company is the among the world's leading industrial machine vision companies and has a workforce of about 400 in five continents. In 2010 VITRONIC Machine Vision Middle East LLC in Dubai was founded. VITRONIC products are currently in use in 40 countries.

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