Is Acusensus a privately owned company?

Acusensus is a publicly listed company. We listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on the 12th of January 2023 under the ASX code ACE. For more information about our public listing and to read our ASX announcements, visit the Acusensus Investor Centre.

Does Acusensus collect any fine revenue?

Acusensus does not hand out fines or collect fine revenue. We are a Business-to-Government (B2G) Company, which means we work collaboratively with our government clients to provide road safety technology tailored to the needs of specific jurisdictions. Infringement notices are issued and collected by the government and go to respective government bodies or municipalities that implement the enforcement systems, not to Acusensus.

Fines are typically invested to further a government body’s road safety strategies, aiming to create safer roads and reduce road trauma. For example, all safety camera fines in Western Australia are paid into the Road Trauma Trust Account – these funds are utilised for road safety initiatives.

For more information on fines, contact your jurisdiction or browse for your jurisdiction’s road safety strategy.

What makes Acusensus Heads-Up the world’s leading traffic enforcement solution?

Heads-Up captures high-resolution, prosecutable evidence of illegal driver behaviour, 24/7 and in all weather conditions. It is built on a live production system approved for criminal enforcement – making it an effective tool to drive behavioural change across the road network.

Heads-Up is designed with the following principles:

  • Capture images that are unaffected by sunlight and glare.
  • Capture images with extremely high clarity and without blur at up to 300 km/h.
  • Capture multiple images, so that phone use can be seen from multiple angles.
  • Capture video to show contextual information.

 

Acusensus provides an end-to-end managed as-a-service model to deliver all our technology solutions. This includes delivering software, hardware, project services, resources, supporting documentation and training by a highly skilled team.

Heads-Up has been recognised with international accolades including the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award, Intertraffic Inspiration Award, ITS Awards (Australia and UK) and the CIHT Awards.

To learn more about Heads-Up, visit the Heads-Up page.

How is your technology deployed?

At the heart of Acusensus technology is our AI-based software. This means our technology solutions, including Heads-Up, can be implemented in multiple hardware options, allowing Acusensus to meet different client requirements such as varying road conditions, laws and road safety objectives.

Acusensus technology has been deployed as trailer-based, vehicle-based and fixed-location solutions.

To learn more about Acusensus’ various solutions, visit the Solutions page.

Tell me a bit more about the transportable solution

Acusensus believes in providing solutions that can provide the maximum road safety effect through the efficient use of resources. While fixed enforcement installations provide an obvious overt deterrent effect, a key capability of Acusensus is the design and deployment of transportable solutions for anywhere-anytime enforcement.

Trailer solutions have key advantages over other deployment methods, such as:

  • Extended deployment times via battery/solar/generator combinations to suit the client use cases. Deployment can be conducted for days, weeks or months at a given location.
  • Designed to be towed to a nominated location, deployed and then left unattended to operate.
  • Reduced health & safety risks for operators. Past experience has shown that personnel sitting in enforcement cars were often endangered by the public and motorists.
  • Enhanced deployment capabilities by allowing solutions to be raised on telescopic masts. This is particularly relevant for the deployment of illegal mobile phone use camera solutions.
  • Constantly monitored security solutions to provide vandalism resistance.
Does Heads-Up have additional functionalities beyond mobile phone detection?

Since Heads-Up’s inception in 2018, the patented technology has been enhanced to simultaneously provide enforcement of other offences including seatbelt non-compliance, driver speeding at a set point or over a distance and automatic number plate recognition to detect unregistered vehicles and vehicles being driven in closed lanes of freeways.

To learn more about Heads-Up, visit the Heads-Up page.

Who are Acusensus’ current customers?

Acusensus has successfully grown our customer base since 2019 with a track record of customers exercising extensions, adding modules or increasing units. Our current customers in Australia are Transport for New South Wales, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Main Roads Western Australia, the Australian Rail Track Corporation, the ACT Government and the South Australia Government.

In the United States, Acusensus is currently running programs in Georgia, Arkansas and North Carolina. Additionally, we have collaborated with National Highways in the UK on various data collection initiatives. Notably, Acusensus has established a long-term program in Devon & Cornwall, making it the first county in the UK to implement Heads-Up on a continuous basis.

For the latest updates on Acusensus’ customers, visit the News page.

I’m concerned about my privacy. What data security and privacy measures do you have to ensure the privacy of drivers?

At Acusensus, we uphold rigorous standards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of data. We maintain a comprehensive global privacy program and an information security framework with the industry-recognised Information Security Management Systems (ISO/IEC 27001:2002) standard from the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).

Acusensus products incorporate sophisticated privacy and security protections including features as detailed below:

  • Typically 99% of captured images are deleted and never seen by a human.
  • Evidence packages are encrypted and digitally signed on-site using the public component of the customer’s secret decryption key.
  • Images going to the first stage human review process are automatically cropped and anonymised. Image reviewers do not possess the ability to identify the location, time or day, registration or other occupants of the vehicle.
  • Offence images going to further stages of review are typically automatically blurred such that only the offending occupant can be seen (restricting the ability to see occupants not involved in the commission of an offence). Full original evidence is typically accessed only if images are presented for court purposes.

 

To learn more, visit the Data Security & Privacy page.

How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) used on evidence images?

Acusensus uses AI to identify which images are likely to contain offences (such as drivers holding phones or passengers not wearing seatbelts), to determine whether those images should be checked by reviewers to confirm (or discard) each potential offence.

Acusensus does not use generative AI and does not modify the original images captured by the cameras. These images are encrypted and digitally signed on-site (at the roadside), ensuring that they cannot be manipulated in any way before being delivered to the jurisdiction responsible for the local road safety program.