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ELSAG
EZ Tag, a subsidiary company of Group Techna has provided excellent customer service to the DC Department of Public Works (DPW) for the past four years. EZ Tag’s Parking Enforcement product has been very stable and has fully met expectations from DC/DPW Parking Services Administration. From a Support standpoint EZ Tag’s Analysts are always available to immediately address any ongoing operations issues that surface. It is a rare situation indeed when we do not immediately get to speak to a EZ Tag Support Analyst whenever we call the EZ Tag Support Line. Most issues are solved quickly and to our complete satisfaction. Whenever product enhancements or System upgrades are delivered EZ Tag takes the necessary steps to ensure that the changes are first thoroughly tested and deployed in a staggered & controlled manner in order to minimize the risk to our large Ongoing Operations of 300 Handheld Computers employing MES Ticketing Software.

Recently, we especially appreciated EZ Tag’s initiative to visit DPW and conduct an information session, with our Senior Management in attendance, to advise DPW of the latest technological innovations available in the Parking Enforcement arena. In summary, we highly value our relationship with EZ Tag and look forward to working closely with EZ Tag on future initiatives in order to both improve & maintain our Parking Enforcement Operation at peak levels of efficiency & feature rich content.
- Thinh Nguyen -
DC Department of Public Works
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INTRODUCING MES-PLATES, FROM GROUP TECHNA INC.
Every vehicle on the street has a License Plate. A very small subset of these plates are on Hot Lists ofvehicles that are  finterest to law enforcement. From unpaid parking tickets, expired vehicle registrations, stolen vehicles, amber alerts and in more serious cases to help locate the owners/ operators of the vehicles who are wanted on outstanding warrants. There have always been good reasons for police to locate vehicles that are often like needles in a haystack. These targeted License Plates are right there on display. But sorting them out of the crowd has always meant spending lots of  time and lots of dedicated manpower. Up until now, that is.
Technology Takes Over the Task
Group Techna is a leading technology company specifically addressing the needs of Law Enforcement today. In partnership with Elsag North America, Company engineers have married video inputs with Image Analysis software that identifies targeted plates using an onboard hot list, and returns an alarm back to the operator in milliseconds. Using a vehicle mounted video camera, a moving patrol car can check between 5000 and 8000 plates per eight hour shift at speeds in excess of 75MPH (120KM/h), while the officer is attending to other routine duties.

The split second response of the MES-Plates system is its most important asset. When the patrol officer receives an audible  alarm, the laptop screen will display a digital picture of the Plate and the Vehicle as well as information as to the reason the plate is Hot Listed, all the while still abreast of the vehicle.
The Real Winner is Public Safety
Jurisdictions using the MES-Plates System experience dramatic increases in the recovery ofstolen vehicles, recovery of unpaid parking fines, the control of residential parking permit abuses, or the enforcement of expired registrations or suspended driver's permits. And those are just a few of the areas where gains can be made. All these public benefits come with no additional expenditure of public funds for overtime or for Officers dedicated to personally locating these vehicles.

GROUP TECHNA MAKES TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

MES: Mobile Enforcement Solutions
Group Techna has developed a suite of Mobile Enforcement Solutions, or MES Products. The core of each of these is custom software that is designed and developed by engineers who really understand Law Enforcement. From the flow of the User Interface to the order in which Data Input is prompted, MES Software Modules support routine patrol activities, rather than burden them. Added to this command of the software, Group Techna Engineers maintain close working relationships with manufacturers of the best Off-The-Shelf hardware that will be needed to complete a working system. When you combine easy to use custom software and proven, reliable hardware components the result is a package that can go right to work for your Force and start generating benefits on Day One.
MES-Plates, Only the Latest in a Long Line of Technology Enhancements for the Police
The most effective policing is done on the streets, side by side with the people your officers are sworn to serve and protect. Group Techna makes technology into a Force Multiplier that allows your officers to perform repetitive tasks faster and with much greater accuracy. This means you can deliver a greater level of service to your citizens by freeing up some of your officers' time which will, in turn, allow them to either take on additional tasks or to better communicate with the population.

Group Techna personnel are experts with well known and proven technologies such as Portable Computers and Printers, Barcode scanning, Wireless Data Communication, and Data Base Management. The company applies these tools to the problems of day to day Law Enforcement procedures to create a series of MES software applications to organize the Patrol Officer's working steps and make them computer-fast and computer- efficient.
Look at What MES-Plates can Do for You
• Process Plates for both Parked and Moving Vehicles
• Cover 4 Lanes ofTraffic, Day or Night, in AllWeather using Infra Red Video Feeds.
• Capture plates on both sides of a Street simultaneously.
• Check Plates from all 50 US States, 13 Canadian Provinces and Territories,
  and Mexico
• 120 MPH (193 KM/h) Closing Speeds, 75 MPH (120 KM/h) Passing Speeds
• Issues Officer Alerts in Milliseconds
• Allows Officers to Update Hot Lists Manually
• Pattern Recognition
Your organization may only be interested in finding scofflaw parking violators. Or you may be trying to piece together evidence by the placing of a suspect vehicle at a crime scene, even after the patrol has returned to station. For any application requiring the capturing and processing ofmany vehicle plates on streets, lots or highways, you need to know about MES-Plates.
 
GROUP TECHNA and ELSAG North America - The Perfect Synergy
Montreal, November 5, 2008. GROUP TECHNA, is proud to be a partner of ELSAG North America. ELSAG has the most widely implemented license plate reader (LPR) cameras in the United States, with more equipment installed in New York City alone than all of its competitors combined have nation-wide. ELSAG’S LPR system operates in conjunction with MES PLATES and MES TIME ENFORECMENT, GROUP TECHNA’s robust LPR Hotlist and LPR eChalking software solutions.
Montreal, November 5, 2008. GROUP TECHNA, is proud to be a partner of ELSAG North America. ELSAG has the most widely implemented license plate reader (LPR) cameras in the United States, with more equipment installed in New York City alone than all of its competitors combined have nation-wide. ELSAG’S LPR system operates in conjunction with MES PLATES and MES TIME ENFORECMENT, GROUP TECHNA’s robust LPR Hotlist and LPR eChalking software solutions.

GROUP TECHNA is a leading software provider in mobile computing throughout various sectors, including Parking and Traffic enforcement operations. With over 1 000 eTicketing and LPR software solutions in Traffic and Parking Enforcement deployed in municipalities throughout North America, GROUP TECHNA’s partnership with ELSAG makes perfect sense.


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