Long gone are the days when the best way to collect traffic data was by laying a pneumatic tube across a road. Nowadays, radar is one of the most accurate, cost effective, and reliable means of gathering the information your neighborhood or city needs. Stalker Radar offers a variety of options for collecting traffic data. You can choose a solution that is designed solely for covertly gathering data with our Traffic Data Collector (TDC), or you can do so while providing motorists with valuable feedback in the form of a “speed display sign or a variable messaging trailer. Most Versatile The Stal ..read more

A Brief History of Lidar The foundational concept of measuring how long it takes light to bounce off an object and then return to the observer and then converting that into a measure of distance, or “Lidar”, was first theorized in 1930 by EH Synge. He used searchlights to study the atmosphere, and then in 1938, his concept was used to start measuring the height of clouds. The invention of the laser in the late 1950’s was what really started to open the door to utilizing light for measurement. In 1961, Hughes Aircraft Company introduced a system that used pulses of light to track the position o ..read more

Radar speed detection capabilities were first developed in 1935 in Great Britain by Sir Robert Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Wilkins. They figured out how to use radio waves to detect enemy planes at great distances and also utilized this technology to locate German U-boats. He later helped the United States to expand their radar capabilities in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing. Do You Know How Fast You Were Going? It did not take long for law enforcement agencies to recognize the power of this new radar technology. In 1947, Glastonbury, Connecticut started testing out radar to ..read more

If there were just one thing you had to do to keep your city streets safer, you would have implemented it a long time ago. Unfortunately, it isn’t quite that easy. Increasing public safety is an ongoing series of smaller actions that, together, add up to safer roads for us all. It can sometimes be difficult to know where to start or what programs to implement to get the most “bang for your buck.” Here are six ideas that you can implement today to start moving the needle. Element of Surprise. When your officers are out on patrol, equip them with police lidar. Speeders caught using lidar were 4 ..read more