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Ensuring pedestrian safety at unregulated pedestrian crossings is considered one of the most important tasks of modern integrated ITS systems around the world. Many pedestrians are killed or injured in such situations, especially at night.
To provide pedestrian safety at unregulated pedestrian crossings, ISS has a unique special integrated solution—SecurOS Soffit.
SecurOS Soffit is an intelligent system which illuminates pedestrians at unregulated crosswalks after dark to prevent them from being involved in accidents. The system focuses the driver's attention on the pedestrian by highlighting the pedestrian with beams of light all the way through the crosswalk. The SecurOS Soffit dynamic lighting significantly improves the driver’s awareness of the pedestrian, allowing drivers to slow down and stop in good time. This system is a comprehensive solution designed to improve pedestrian safety after dark and reduce the number of traffic violations and accidents.
The SecurOS Soffit focuses the driver's attention on the pedestrian by highlighting them with a beam of light all the way through the crosswalk.
The system's VA detectors, which are based on AI and computer vision technologies, process video from the IP video camera: detect and accurately classify objects—such as pedestrians, vehicles, and more—pinpoint their location at any given time, and track their trajectory, including changes in the speed of moving objects. The solution algorithms are not affected by possible interference in the frame, such as leaves, snowfall, shadows falling on the crosswalk from road signs or trees. The use of machine learning technology reduces the probability of the system being triggered by a non-human object down to a statistical margin of error.
Unlike solutions that use static illumination of crosswalk signs or asphalt in the area of crosswalk markings, the SecurOS Soffit LED floodlight focuses the driver's attention entirely on pedestrians, without diverting it to other objects. This system element is designed so that each of the eight LED modules illuminates its own section of the crosswalk while people are on it. The brightness of the LED modules can be adjusted for the lighting conditions of the place where the system is installed.
The SecurOS Soffit works automatically around the clock, but the crosswalk is illuminated only after dark.
The dynamic lighting can provide constant or pulsing illumination. The pulsing lighting makes a pedestrian even more visible to the driver against the glare of streetlights, bright signs, advertising displays, and headlights of other vehicles.
Once the pedestrian leaves the control zone, the SecurOS Soffit system floodlight returns to standby mode.