Stopped vehicles
A breakdown in a tunnel lane is a serious hazard within minutes.
Solutions
Incidents caught in the first minute
Automatic incident detection across highway corridors and tunnels, where a delayed response is the real risk.
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The situation
What sites in this sector are dealing with
In a tunnel, the gap between an incident and the response is the entire safety case. A stopped vehicle that is noticed on the next patrol is a different event from one flagged in ten seconds.
Wrong-way movement
Detection has to be immediate for a warning to be worth anything.
Smoke and fire
Early visual detection buys the minutes that ventilation response needs.
Corridor congestion
Queue build-up behind an incident compounds it quickly.
What we deploy
The products doing the work
Same platform, same event pipeline, same audit log — only the rules differ.
AI-Enabled Video Analytics
Automatic incident detection — stopped vehicle, wrong way, pedestrian, debris, smoke.
Traffic Management System
ANPR, classification, speed and congestion across the corridor.
Video Management System
Continuous recording with rapid retrieval for incident review.
Outcomes
What changes on site
- Stopped-vehicle and wrong-way alerts within seconds of the event
- Smoke detection that supports the ventilation and evacuation response
- Corridor congestion visible before the queue reaches the tunnel mouth
- Every incident stored with the clip for the post-event review
Tunnel detection is a life-safety function. It must be specified against your operating procedure, tested on site, and built to the standard your authority specifies.
CVHow we approach this sectorCognix Vision engineering
Questions
Frequently asked
How fast is detection?
Fast enough to matter, but the honest number is per-site — it depends on camera spacing, lighting and the detection tuned for that geometry. We measure and report it during commissioning.
Does it integrate with tunnel SCADA?
Events can be pushed to your SCADA or tunnel management system so ventilation and signage respond automatically.
Planning something for Highway and Tunnel?
Tell us the site, the camera count and what you need to catch. We will tell you what is realistic before anyone talks price.