taking

Low Emission Zone

control
of air quality

Your business technologists. Powering progress

Delivering society benefits
through a best in class
partnership and solution
The time for cities to act is now
EU and Kyoto clean air directives leave no
room for complacency. Cities account for
over 80% of CO2 emissions worldwide.
Particulate matter, a major air pollutant
from vehicle emissions, leads to an
estimated 348,000 premature deaths
annually in Europe.
2 Taking control of air quality
Societys growing justifiable
concerns about noise and
pollution through high emission LEZ as a Service:
the advantage is yours
vehicle and traffic congestion
need to be addressed as a matter
of urgency. Which is why national
governments as well as cities and Atos and Siemens partner to deliver LEZ as a service
towns can be given heavy financial solution. As such, LEZ requires no IT infrastructure to be
penalties by the European Court hosted or purchased by the customer the solution is
of Justice if they are not seen to entirely hosted and operated by the Atos-Siemens Alliance.
improve air quality. All you need to manage the LEZ is a web-browser and an
Internet connection.
The Atos-Siemens Low Emission Zone (LEZ)
offer is a fully hosted and proven traffic pollution
management solution. Highly scalable and cost Dedicated Customer Relation Management: LEZ supports both mobile and fixed enforcement: Low Emission Zone part of the
effective, it provides town and city leaders and
traffic managers with a valuable tool to address
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 obile enforcement can be achieved with Atos MyCity portfolio
vehicle if necessary a dedicated app on a smartphone. Police
pollution levels and deliver real society benefits.
P
 ollution peak days communication: cities can officers can be equipped with the app to The Atos technology approach to city services
communicate proactively the day before a enforce the Low Emission Zone during their is aimed at driving citizen engagement while
Visually unobtrusive roadside equipment detects
pollution peak, offer free public transportation patrols. enabling more efficient management through
vehicle license plates and monitors air quality.
Communication to the hosted enforcement and tickets, etc. F
 ixed enforcement is provided by Siemens better collaboration, reduction of duplication and
back-office system is done via highly secure and M
 ass communication through SMS, email (Sicore Cameras) dramatic cost reduction.
encrypted techniques. LEZ also provides easy
to use customer web portals to allow customer
V
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Integration with social networks: cities can
The result of over 30 years in optical character
recognition technology, the Siemens Sicore ANPR
access to key performance data on the low
emission zone. A customer contact centre is also
part of the solution.
engage citizens and car owners, and get
valuable feedback from sites like Facebook
camera offers outstanding features:
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 imultaneous coverage of two lanes
LEZ as a service means:
or Twitter
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 equests handling: car owners can contact
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 onitoring of bi-directional flows
 NPR cameras quickly and easily installed on
A the cities for information request 2
 4h operation with
infrared illumination
top of existing traffic signals
3G connectivity with data center
IVR and call distribution
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 loud-based IT infrastructure to support
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 asy integration and set-up
operations 24/7
Secure hosting in Tier-III + data center* Automatic fine processing:
*For legal or practical reasons, cities may
No intervention is required
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 anual review if needed: undetectable license
elect to have the IT infrastructure hosted on plates can be manually reviewed by city
premise. Atos-Siemens can help the city IT staff employees
set up the hosting infrastructure and install all
F
 ine payment options: car owners can pay
necessary software. Atos-Siemens can also help
online and even on their mobile phone
in implementing a local private cloud. Personal
data can be hosted in the country, and other
data and systems in the cloud.
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About Atos
Atos is an international information technology
services company with annual 2011 pro
forma revenue of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000
employees in 48 countries. Serving a global
client base, it delivers hi-tech transactional
services, consulting and technology services,
systems integration and managed services.
With its deep technology expertise and industry
knowledge, it works with clients across the
following market sectors: Manufacturing, Retail,
Services; Public, Health & Transports; Financial
Services; Telecoms, Media & Technology;
Energy & Utilities.

Atos is focused on business technology that

powers progress and helps organizations to
create their firm of the future. It is the Worldwide
Information Technology Partner for the Olympic
and Paralympic Games and is quoted on the
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brands Atos, Atos Consulting & Technology
Services, Atos Worldline and Atos Worldgrid.
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