Heads-Up Solution

Category

Excellence in Research and Development Award

Submitting Organisation

Acusensus Australia

The Acusensus ‘Heads-Up’ has been designed to give authorities an effective tool to address distraction and other illegal driver behaviour, to drive behavioural change on the road network.

The Acusensus ‘Heads-Up’ solution is a system in which AI technology is utilised to detect potentially harmful driving behaviour, including spotting distracted drivers, drivers without seatbelts, as well as speed violations.

The system can be provided in the form of fixed or trailer-based enforcement for anytime, anywhere deployment.

The system captures high resolution, prosecutable evidence of individuals undertaking illegal driver behaviour, 24/7 in all weather conditions and, operates autonomously to capture photographic evidence, automatically detecting illegal driver behaviour. The system hardware is compact, light and unobtrusive, permitting economical deployment on a wide range of pre-existing infrastructure.

Acusensus partnered with Transport for NSW to deliver the world’s first automated illegal mobile phone use enforcement system. Going live on 1 December 2019, the program commenced with a warning letter phase before moving to live enforcement on 1 March 2020. In the first 3 months of operations, the program checked 10 million vehicles and detected over 30,000 drivers using their phones whilst driving. The program encompasses both fixed and transportable systems, covering the entire state.

Acusensus has also partnered with the Queensland Government in its efforts to address dangerous driver behaviour across their road network in Australia’s first simultaneous enforcement of illegal mobile phone use and seatbelt non-compliance detection program, going live at the end of July 2021. Nearly 6,000 Queenslanders were detected illegally using their phones behind the wheel and nearly 1,000 offences detected involved front-seat occupants not wearing a seat belt in just three weeks.