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Rauwers Controle is a Belgian multinational company, which creates, supplies and markets products and solutions for professionals in the road mobility and safety sector. The company holds its operations in 4 countries: Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg. Today, it distributes its solutions under 5 business units:


 * Signaling: light and sound equipment for priority vehicles, telematics, parking control.
 * Telematics: Fleet Management Solutions
 * Control: solutions related to tachographs and alcohol interlocks
 * Parking: "on-street" parking management via the implementation of municipal mobility plans (particularly the installation of parking meters and the monitoring of parking rights)
 * Traffic management: LAPI (fixed or mobile) to control parking rights or regulate traffic flows in urban areas

The company's head office is located at Rue François-Joseph Navez in Brussels.

History
=== Rauwers Controle (1919) === At the age of 34 years, Alphonse Rauwers spent 4 years on the war front. With his experience of more than 10 years in the automotive sector, he decided to buy from the British army, with his comrade Paul Voisin, a stock of 34 Wolseley military cars.

The beginning of their activity consisted in demilitarising this very stock to produce marketable civilian vehicles. The result of their transformations, in addition to the basic restoration, was to make sports models like the Torpedo. In 1927, the stock of 34 vehicles was exhausted and the automobile entered an industrial phase where small coachbuilders no longer had their place.

In search of a new market, Alphonse Rauwers discovered the tachograph, an instrument intended to assess the activity and driving style of drivers.

In the 1960s, the company entered the market of parking meters and ticket machines.

On the 20th of November 1987, the company won a contract for the delivery and installation, maintenance, renewal, collection of money from parking meters in the city of Liège.

Sirac (1981)
Sirac was founded in 1981 with the aim of introducing in France products that had already been successfully established on the Belgian market. Initially, it was the light and sound signalling products that made Sirac successful. Subsequently, other solutions were added to create an ecosystem for road mobility and safety.

Sirac is an official partner and supplier of signalling equipment for gendarmerie vehicles for the Tour de France.

Rauwers GmbH
The German branch of Rauwers Controle, Rauwers GmbH, was newly listed in 2011. The head office is located in Altenkirchen. Rauwers GmbH's main market is signalling.

Signalling
Rauwers and all of its subsidiaries distribute the acoustic and visual signalling solutions of Federal Signal Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of equipment for priority and emergency vehicles. The company deal with municipal police, SAMU, ambulances, car repair workshops, customs and airports. It has been able to set up a network of approved centers in France, which handles the installation of signalling products on vehicles.

Fleet Management
The company is a distributor of telematics solutions for fleet management from MiX Telematics. It recently concluded an agreement with the Canadian company Geotab for the distribution of its products in Belgium and France.

Parking and Traffic Management
Rauwers is the official parking management entity for the municipalities of Evere, Koksijde, Schaarbeek, and Soignies in Belgium. The company uses its Scan-Auto technology to do parking enforcement.

Tachographs and breathalysers
The Belgian company handles the distribution of tachographs and breathalysers from the Canadian manufacturer Inc. ACS, ALCOHOL COUNTERMEASURE SYSTEMS. It also takes care of the after-sales fitting of alcohol ignition interlocks, in Belgium and France, in particular thanks to its network of installers.

Yellowbrick
The company has developed its smartphone parking space payment system, adopted in the Brussels municipalities of Schaerbeek, Evere and Etterbeek.

Scan-Auto
Rauwers is responsible for the parking management in the municipality of Schaerbeek. Its technology developed with the company GIM, Scan-Auto, controls parking in Belgian streets. Scan-Auto is able to read the license plates of parked vehicles, detect violations and automatically send the payment.

Smart Atmo Sensor
The company launched the Smart Atmo Sensor this year, at the 20th edition of the EPA Congress, which measures the pollution index. This device is installed on their network of parking meters and quantifies the level of pollution at eye level.