November 11, 2009

New technology from Purdue Research Park-based firm may improve efficiency of processing traffic tickets

Officials from Next Generation Solutions Ltd. are partnering with government officials in Lake County, Indiana, the Judicial Technology and Automation Committee, and Cenifax Management Services Inc. to implement their Open Case Filing Agent (OCFA) technology into the Lake County Court Management System and the Lake County Law Enforcement Record Management System.

"OCFA translates electronic information created and stored by police officers during traffic violations into traffic court case files," said Mark C. Orciuch, president and senior software architect at Next Generation Solutions. "The case files then can be assigned to a specific court, fines can be calculated and court appearances can be scheduled. The vision is to streamline the process so all traffic tickets can be payable online within 24 hours of being issued or sooner."

The concept originated when Orciuch was involved with Cenifax in the development of Lake County's online traffic ticket payment system.

"I witnessed how tedious, error prone and time-consuming the process of manual traffic ticket entry can be," Orciuch said. "There was a real opportunity to completely automate the process of handling traffic tickets from start to finish."

Orciuch and his colleagues at Next Generation Solutions designed OCFA to be flexible due to the complexity and variances of filing rules and ticketing systems and applications.

"OCFA is architected as an open technology that accommodates these complexities and variances through the use of pluggable components and custom strategies," he said. "In the case of Lake County, OCFA e-files traffic tickets generated by two distinct e-ticket writing applications into three distinct record management systems."

Orciuch said the product might evolve and expand due to the flexibility created by its open architecture.

"OCFA may add support for many more e-ticketing applications and court management systems," he said. "As an e-filing integration platform, it also may be extended for e-filing court cases other than traffic."

About Next Generation Solutions Ltd.

Next Generation Solutions Ltd. delivers innovative technologies for the e-government sector. Founded in 1994, Next Generation Solutions Ltd. is a regional leader in portal content management and e-commerce solutions for government agencies.

About Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana

The Purdue Research Park of Northwest Indiana sits on 386 acres west of I-65 in Merrillville. This laboratory and office facility serves as the anchor for the state-certified technology park - AmeriPlex at the Crossroads - under development by Purdue Research Foundation and Holladay Properties. The 48,000-square-foot Purdue Technology Center of Northwest Indiana is slated to expand to 60,000 square feet in 2010. It opened as Purdue's first satellite technology center in January 2005, and currently serves 24 technology-based tenants, and employment within the center currently numbers approximately 100, including researchers with advanced degrees, recent college graduates and interns.

To the Purdue Research Park, https://www.purdueresearchpark.com

Purdue Research Park contact:
Steve Martin, 765-588-3342, sgmartin@prf.org

Source:
Mark C. Orciuch, 219-616-0504, mark_orciuch@ngsltd.com