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Identification at the press of a button

14th October 1966
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AN automatic vehicle identification system

known as SAVIS is to be introduced shortly by Storno Ltd.. of Camberley. Jointly developed by Storno and the Siemens company, the system consists of a tone code transmitter connected to a vehicle's normal radio telephone equipment which operates automatically when the driver depresses his transmit button. The series of tones allocated to the vehicle is then automatically transmitted. In the station control room, the call sign of the vehicle appears instantly on a display panel, with bright, luminous, numbers.

The SAVIS system contributes greatly to the economical use of congested radio frequency channels. It eliminates the need for the driver to give his call sign verbally, and it avoids any possibility of misinterpretation of verbally transmitted identification. Even more valuable, and significant, it is possible to incorporate an alarm signal tone so that any lorry or taxi driver attacked by hoodlums can press a concealed emergency hutton which automatically sends out a five-tone ;ignal, the first four identifying the vehicle and be fifth activitating an acoustic signal, and ocking the particular call sign on display. The ;ontrol room will then report to the police and roadcast details of the vehicle concerned. The system has been tried out in Cologne, there a number of mock attacks on taxi drivers vere staged. In no instance did it take more than few minutes from the transmission of the mergency call until the vehicle in question was ound and encircled. J.D.

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