Microsoft to demonstrate TETRA application for traffic police in Germany
The traffic police in the province of Nordrhein West Phalia to test Fujitsu laptops and software to write police reports.
At the exhibition "Modern State", Microsoft showcased on Wednesday in Berlin, the traffic police software reporting tool for the NRW region (Nordrhein West Phalia). The software for tablet PCs running on Windows 7 will be used in the future to simplify the work of the traffic police. To digitize the police work, a simple interface was developed to report the violations by the police. The virtual "document" can be entered. into the system. The data traffic will be are captured by a scanner that automatically can read out driver's licenses and identification cards. This will help avoid incorrect entries.
The Düsseldorf-based software company Rising systems developed apps running on Fujitsu Tablet PCs QS 550, The traffic officer chooses the type of traffic violation and will be guided through a series of menus, which requests all necessary data, which are REQUIRED for the inclusion of a display. Compared to the tedious work with pencil and paper filling out forms should now be easier as it will deliver a improvement in time and quality spent on violations
At the moment the tablet PC will be docked an automatically upload to the police system will be enabled. Once the German public safety system will be functional for TETRA II (TEDS - also called Standard or Enhanced Data TETRA), the data entry can immediately be done from the police car and send via the TETRA Network to the Police system.
The digitization of police work is currently being tested with 100 Fujitsu Tablets in harsh police enviroment every day. When the system will be approved, all patrol cars in the North Rhine-Westphalia province will be equipped accordingly.
Source: www.heise.de
