DETECTOR: Measure and Combat Fare Evasion
DETECTOR is a real-time AI Video analytics system that transforms the cameras that oversee fare gate arrays into a powerful AI fare evasion detection and deterring tool. Tackle fare evasion using a selective approach, enabling ticket inspectors to run focused inspections, and get 24/7 data to plan operational, safe, and secure strategies to reduce fare evasion.
Optimize Resource Efficiency
Focus on fare evaders to maximize the impact of your inspection team
Improve Passenger Satisfaction
Avoid blanket inspections, thus minimizing inconveniences to paying passengers
Protect Revenue
Safeguard revenue by increasing the deterring effect of your fare enforcement team and camera systems
70%
DROP IN FARE EVASION
As reported by public transport operator FGC during pilot tests in Barcelona
Fare Evasion: A Global Issue Impacting Public Transport
Fare evasion—traveling without a valid ticket—poses a significant challenge to public transport systems worldwide, causing significant revenue losses for transport operators, and creating feeling of unfairness and unease among paying passengers.
Furthermore, fare dodging has increased in many transport networks following COVID-19: a technological approach can help bringing down the numbers.
We offer a technologically effective solution: selective and precisely targeted inspections, powered by AI.
Main Benefits
SELECTIVE CONTROLS
A smart, reliable tool that helps inspectors focus on genuine fare evasion cases
FAIR & UNBIASED
Anonymized images before training and inference ensure objective and transparent enforcement
ENHANCED SECURITY
Provides real-time insights, allowing inspectors to act strategically and avoid risky interactions
How it Works: Dual Approach
Enforcement
OFFENSE
Seamless Monitoring: With a camera placed above ticket barriers, our AI engine automatically detects fare infractions with unmatched accuracy, operating 24/7.
ALERT
Real-Time Alerts: When an infraction is detected, it instantly sends alerts with images to ticket inspectors via DETECTOR app. This enables immediate action before the offender reaches the platform.
TARGETED INSPECTION
Smart Decision-Making: Inspectors receive the necessary data to assess the risk of each intervention, helping them decide whether to proceed or hold back, thus avoiding unnecessary conflicts.
Comprehensive Statistics
Insightful Analytics: DETECTOR provides real-time fare evasion data, tracks interventions, and generates downloadable analysis charts. Its web-based dashboard offers a detailed, per-gate, per-hour breakdown, including fare evasion modes.
Strategic Planning: Granular data—available hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly—enables transit managers to optimize fare enforcement and strategically plan ticket inspections for maximum impact.
Multiple Integration Approaches
If the cameras are properly positioned, capturing the validation area from the correct perspective, our system can operate directly on the video feed—whether from the camera or your VMS.
If needed, we can assess additional cameras for optimal validation area coverage.
Whether you prefer an intranet-based or cloud-based solution, DETECTOR adapts to your operational requirements, delivering consistent, dependable results.
Seamlessly integrate DETECTOR metadata into any database or BI system with our powerful API, optimizing analytics and business intelligence.
Success with Ferrocarrils: Advanced Fare Evasion Detection and Deterrance
Today, this detection technology is actively operational within the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) network in Barcelona, vigilantly monitoring millions of passenger entries each year. This system is a key component of FGC’s commitment to maintaining a secure and fair transit environment.
WIth the system being successfully tested in various cities across the world, it s now in regular operation at two other relevant mass transit networks in the USA.
Project funded by the European Union
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 767807.
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