Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

FLIR looks to expand into automobile market

April 11, 2013

In line with its maxim ‘infrared everywhere’, thermal imaging camera supplier FLIR expects to increase its sales within the automotive sector, particularly to companies like Audi, BMW and Rolls Royce, in order to boost manufacturing numbers and cut per unit production costs. The company has developed a new initiative with Mercedes Benz in which many of the car maker’s new S-Class vehicles will contain a FLIR thermal imager that will scan the road ahead, during the darkness of night, and alert when it sees h

Traffic Technology retains West Berkshire data collection

April 10, 2013

Buckinghamshire-based Traffic Technology has successfully retained its traffic data collection contract with West Berkshire District Council. The company will carry out permanent traffic surveys from around thirty-three sites in West Berkshire, as well as ad hoc traffic and parking surveys, pedestrian crossing studies and journey time studies on behalf of the Council for the next two years, with an option to continue for a further two years. Data from parking surveys is used to inform future parking strateg

Palm Beach trials Bluetooth traffic monitoring

April 10, 2013

As part of a growing effort to use technology to manage traffic on roads and highways without building more roads, for the last six months Florida’s Palm Beach County has been using Bluetooth readers to determine how long it takes motorists to travel along its corridors. "We're adding more capacity through technology rather than asphalt," said Dan Weisberg, Palm Beach County's traffic engineer. "We can't build ourselves out of congestion. We need to be smarter about what we have and manage it." In collabor

ISS partners with Exacq Technologies

April 10, 2013

Image Sensing Systems (ISS) is to integrate Exacq Technologies’ exacqVision video management system (VMS) with CitySync licence plate recognition (LPR) software, enabling users to utilise CitySync’s industry leading LPR solution directly from the exacqVision client. License plates are scanned using CitySync’s line of specially configured IP cameras and the CitySync software running on a third party computer or directly on select exacqVision servers. Licence plate information is converted to serial data whic

Latest ANPR technology from Vysionics

April 10, 2013

Vysionics, UK-based traffic solutions provider is taking advantage of Traffex to launch Vector, its latest ANPR camera which the company says captures and reads vehicle number plates across two lanes in all conditions. The camera provides a common platform for multiple ANPR applications, including: • Average speed enforcement • Bus lane enforcement • Level crossings and red light enforcement • Yellow box violations • Tolling • Journey time measurement. Vector combines a wealth of ANPR experience into a sing

Indra wins Manila urban traffic control and toll lanes projects

April 8, 2013

In two contracts totalling US$13.5 million, Spanish consulting and technology provider Indra is to equip Metro Manila, the Philippines’ main metropolitan region, with more than 11 million residents, with its urban traffic control system. The company will also upgrade the toll collection system for the 90 kilometre long Manila North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), one of the most important motorways in the Philippines, carrying more than 160,000 vehicles each day. For the urban traffic control project, in a consort

NJDOT traffic signal coordination project begins

April 8, 2013

The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has started work on a much-needed congestion relief project, using technology to improve traffic flow along a thirteen mile stretch of Route 22 in Somerset and Union counties. The US$7.77 million project will improve mobility along the entire corridor through the creation of an integrated system interconnecting eighteen traffic signals into one controlled traffic signal system (CTSS). This includes the complete replacement of the existing traffic signal sy

Unlocking Toronto’s gridlock

March 26, 2013

A project by University of Toronto professor of civil engineering Professor Baher Abdulhai marries cameras with computers to create traffic lights that can measure vehicle flow, understand what it means, and adapt signal patterns to reduce gridlock. “We want the traffic light to learn from experience,” explained Prof. Abdulhai, who is principal investigator on the University of Toronto project, dubbed Marlin, and an expert in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). “In the Toronto experiment we cut down d

Creating safer roads with vehicle communication

March 26, 2013

Accurate, timely information which eliminates the need to brake quickly when approaching a work zone or other road hazard could prevent crashes and save lives, according to research by the University of Minnesota. Thanks to research by the University of Minnesota, this vision is closer than ever to reality. “In the past fifty years we’ve made great strides in reducing traffic fatalities with technologies that save lives in crashes, like airbags and seat belts,” says M. Imram Hayee, electrical and computer e

DART to launch corridor management system

March 25, 2013

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is to launch its corridor management system, which will integrate traffic information from the myriad transportation agencies along the north central expressway in the region to provide drivers with up to date travel information. The US$9 million project, partially funded by the Department of Transportation, is among several integrated corridor management pioneer sites chosen because of the high travel demand and congestion brought on by the more than 266,000 vehicles that u