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Toll-Charging Generates Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Municipalities

An Automated System for Identifying People Through Automotive Glass in Moving Vehicles
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Vehicle Occupancy Detection Corp

Cisco CEO John Chambers demonstrated the application of Vehicle Occupancy technology for congestion pricing at the London Olympics during his keynote speech at Oracle Open World, the world’s premier conference on disruptive technologies.

We are a dedicated team of professionals, engineers, and visionaries who share a common commitment to revolutionize the way we experience transportation. Our diverse team leverages expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor technologies, and data analytics to develop intelligent solutions that revolutionize the monitoring and management of vehicles.

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The heart of VODC’s technology centers on the fact that certain shortwave infrared wavelengths reflect off the human body’s oxygen-rich, iron carrying red blood cells (hemoglobin) at differing rates. By flooding a car at these wavelengths, taking two photos, then superimposing one image onto the other, VODC’s system is able to identify the number of people in a vehicle regardless of whether their face is partially obscured. The technology can also discriminate human skin from pets, dummies and photos. The specific wavelengths can penetrate through tinted and metallic automotive glass, is not limited by ambient temperature or by internal vehicle temperature, is completely safe and works through any amount of hair or cosmetics. Works in all types of weather and provides information in real time, 24 hours a day without external lighting at ranges up to 150 feet.
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VODC's Technology Works in all Conditions

VODC’s patented technology is able to identify the number of people in a moving vehicle through automotive glass at freeway speeds in all types of weather without the use of visible light and can differentiate a human from pets, dummies and photos. Because VODC’s technology uses infrared wavelengths to reflect off a human body’s oxygen-rick, iron carrying red blood cells and not facial recognition, a person can be reliably identified whether the person is laying down (photo #1), partially covered in the back seat (#2) is old (#3) wearing makeup and image partially blocked by a visor with hands raised (#4) or partially covered by hair looking sideways (#5)

 

“Indeed, ‘Holy Grail of Detection’ were my unprompted words to describe the HOV detection application, since it has defied the attempts of other researchers in the field for over thirty years.”

Professor Arthur MacCarley, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

Toll-Charging Can Generate Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Municipalities

  • The Highway Trust Fund was projected to be bankrupt by August 2014.
  • The Federal Government’s authority to levy a gas tax expired in September 2014.
  • In April 2014, the Obama administration allowed states to charge tolls on existing roads based on the number of people in a vehicle.
  • High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes are being converted to Dynamic Pricing Lanes that charge drivers a toll based on the number of people in the vehicle.
  • Virginia’s 12-mile Capital Beltway leading into Washington DC, the first dynamic pricing lanes in the U.S., opened in Q4 2012. By Q3 2014, toll revenue annualized to a rate of $30 million per mile per year.
  • California has 2,700 miles of HOT lanes, many of which are being converted to toll roads based on occupancy.
  • 66% of all drivers on I-680’s HOT lanes in Contra Costa County are violators (leakage).
  • More than half the drivers in HOT lanes in metropolitan areas are violators.
  • Research has shown that drivers are willing to pay up to $2.00 per minute to drive in dynamic pricing lanes at the legal speed limit.
  • Toll roads do not generate sufficient revenue because no previous technology existed to count people in moving vehicles through automotive glass and differentiate humans from pets, dolls, and photos in all types of weather without the use of visible light.
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