New Federal Signal ITS division will be a game changer

Federal Signal Corporation, a leader in environmental, safety and transportation solutions, has announced it will look to form a new division within the group, arising out of its recent acquisitions of Idris, Sirit and VESystems, combined with PIPS Technology and Federal Advanced Parking Division (FAPD).
February 2, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
William Osborne
38 Federal Signal Corporation, a leader in environmental, safety and transportation solutions, has announced it will look to form a new division within the group, arising out of its recent acquisitions of 36 Idris, 495 Sirit and 2073 VESystems, combined with 37 PIPS Technology and 2081 Federal Advanced Parking Division (FAPD).

The new entity is being presented as a game changer for the global ITS industry.

Federal’s ITS Division will offer an ‘open architecture’ to the ITS industry, where modular systems, customer choice and interoperability will be at the core of its market drive and a focus of project delivery.

According to William Osborne, Federal Signal’s President and CEO, “The division will bring to the ITS industry a revolutionary way of doing business and an openness and partnership between provider and client. Importantly, it will be a creator of open industry standards where the demands of the client and ultimate road user are not compromised. In other words, situations where deployed ITS elements become technology islands which cannot interact with new elements, will be a thing of the past.”

This new division will develop advanced customised solutions from the synergy of technologies offered by VESystems, SIRIT, Idris, PIPS and FAPD while continuing to meet current ITS market demands. By combining these technologies into one, Federal Signal says it is creating a superior technology platform and service offering, while providing users with a choice of custom, more complete and fully integrated solutions.

The combination of VESytems industry experience in complete system operations, Sirit’s RFID applications linked with Idris’s detection and classification capabilities, and the PIPS ALPR technology, immediately establishes Federal Signal as a leader in the ITS market.

William Osborne comments: “VESystems, Sirit, Idris, PIPS and FAPD have a proven record of success in jointly delivering superior technology-based client solutions.

“We are committed to investment in research and development to maintain these reputations for technical excellence and with the creation of an ITS division we look forward to further differentiating Federal Signal within the ITS sector.”
Urban Traffic Control

Related Content

  • Star Systems International and Infinity RFID cooperate on access control
    November 11, 2015
    Star Systems International, an RFID solution provider with a focus on technical implementation and support, has renewed its exclusive distribution agreement and entered into a cooperation agreement with Infinity RFID. This partnership helps Star Systems International bring customer-focused products and solutions to the North American access control market, while maintaining a high level of personalised technical support. Los Angeles-based Infinity RFID has an excellent reputation in the market for provid
    Read More
  • Moxa joins Industrial Internet Consortium
    June 3, 2014
    Moxa has become one of the first industrial automation companies to join the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a non-profit partnership of industry, government and academia formed to accelerate the global use of interconnected devices, intelligent analytics and people. AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel formed the IIC earlier this year to support better access to data with improved integration of the physical and digital worlds. The IIC is open to any business, organisation or entity with an interest in adv
    Read More
  • Machine vision’s image of road management’s future
    June 11, 2015
    Q-Free’s Marco Sinnema looks at how the commoditisation of high-quality vision-based solutions is widening their application. Machine vision technology’s entry into the ITS/traffic management sector has followed a classic top-down path. This is unsurprising given the extremely demanding performance criteria which are the standard in its market of origin, manufacturing processing. Very high image qualities combined with frame rates often in the hundreds per second range resulted in vision systems with capabi
    Read More
  • Growing ITS capability, a way to increase infrastructure capacity
    February 2, 2012
    Iteris's Greg McKhann makes the case for policymakers to look more seriously at the use of ITS as a means of increasing existing infrastructure capacity
    Read More

Highlighted Content