COE wins codec contract with Transport for London and completes exclusive trials

COE Limited, the UK based developer and supplier of integrated video surveillance systems, announced recently that it has won a competitive contract to supply codecs to Transport for London (TfL), and has been sole supplier of codecs for extensive trials by TfL staff.  These trials have proved the use of MPEG-4 compressed video for several applications within TfL.

The COE X-Net MPEG-4 codec won TfL's selection process and COE was contracted to provide codecs and support for several trials within TfL.  These included urban traffic light control, traffic police enforcement, and providing high quality video to users across the organisation.  Key criteria included high video quality, the breadth of control provided to users by the COE codec, and COE's continuing development of the codec software.

COE's X-Net codec is the fourth generation COE development, which has been successfully installed in high profile systems including the entire Singaporean underground network, Strasbourg and Mulhouse city centres and UK wireless city surveillance schemes.  The open systems approach followed by COE has allowed integration of new applications from third party vendors to add new applications such as video intelligence to codecs already in the field.

Andrew Wallace, Chief Executive, commented, "We have been delighted to win this competitive contract with TfL, and to deepen a relationship first started when COE helped roll out the London congestion charge in 2002.  COE's systems, working for several years, have been over ten times more reliable than planned and this has built a working respect between the two organisations.  Transport surveillance is COE's key market, and COE works closely with key transport authorities across the world to develop new video techniques for transport and traffic management."