Intelligent traffic systems supplier Siemens has acquired UK traffic enforcement organisation, Zenco Systems
The announcement follows a number of joint technology projects between the two companies within the UK, including deployments in Manchester and London.
Zenco Systems was founded in 2006 to provide local authorities with the ability to use CCTV video evidence to enforce traffic contraventions.
Following the first digital enforcement trials in the London Borough of Camden in 1996, the ZenGrab
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