response for Conorsaying : What the f*** has that got to do with speed-that-may-be-appropriate-but- above-a-number-onna-stick? Quote :- "a driver mounted the kerb and hit...
According to the trafficmaster blurb I read quite some months ago, the trafficmaster software at each camera creates a hash of the 4 central characters (Or somesuch) of the numberplate and forwards this onto Trafficmaster Master Control. the same numberplate will generate the same hash again along the way and can be used, together with timing information by the T.M. system to measure congestion between the two points. But the car reg. number cannot be reconstructed from the hash.
Lane usage when dual carriagways end 1379There's an interesting bit of road to observe the average London driver on. Trinity Road which runs south from Wandsworth bridge. Starts out as a three lane dual...
So they say !
However AIUI the trafficmaster licence, does not permit any further transmission of car reg. no. info, and AFAICS it would be against their DPA registration to do so.
Bystander might well have seen similar cameras over the car lanes at Dover Ferry Port. But I imagine the basic camera units themselves are standard commercial items, and could be purchased by customs, immigration, port security, or special branch, and ferry companies, who all might legitimately use number plate recognition.
IGWS, of course that there are many unascribed surveillance cameras around the UK. There is a motorway bridge north of the M6 which positively bristles with cameras and IR-UV (?) illumination. Generally reckoned to date from the days when IRA persons used to use the M6 to get to the N.I. shipping routes BICBW.
Trafficmaster is not surveillance, its something different.
poobags, usually NULAB.
DG
