Those two sharp eyes on the side of the road can read your license plate On the road: a new size camera!

In the large family of smart cameras for traffic management, here is the youngest: the S-Vanp, developed by the Belgian company Securoad, the inventor of Lidar. This ANPR type camera is able to recognize license plates.

Ordinary, you might say. This technology called "Automatic Number Plate Recognition" has actually been used for a few years. The police services use fixed ANPR cameras to monitor certain sensitive road sections. On board a vehicle, they can also check the regularity of parking. They are now installed at the entrance to certain car parks, so that the barriers open automatically to let subscribers enter or exit those who have paid.

"S-Vanp is not a technological revolution, concedes Pierre Grisard, General Manager of Securoad. The novelty is that it is a movable camera. Municipalities and police services can rent it for a few weeks to monitor a problematic stretch, just like a Lidar that motorists are now used to."

But unlike Lidar, it is not a question here of controlling the speed but simply the passage or not of a vehicle identified by its license plate. To monitor, for example, that cars do not use a lane reserved for buses or a traffic ban on a road under construction or that trucks respect a traffic ban on certain roads in town, etc.