The system consists of 2 Sony handcam’s, one mounted on the front windscreen, and a second mounted on the rear windscreen. Via our LANC adaptors, they use a small computer running linux (which looks like a mobile phone) to control the cameras.  The software on the phone controls when the camera are recording etc. via the LANC adaptor

NICTA's  project is designed to aid in automatically constructing maps of road traffic assets (particularly signs) from digital video, which their customers use to construct and update the maps that go inside a TomTom or Navman GPS navigator.  The volume of video available for processing was constrained by the cost of the survey grade capture vehicles and systems that they were previously using.  By building a capture system out of consumer grade equipment, it will be much more economical to capture video.