Exelis and TrafficLand partner to deliver real time weather information

TrafficLand has partnered with information solutions provider Exelis and TrafficLand to apply Exelis’ Helios next-generation image science to America’s largest traffic camera network to deliver real-time weather condition information at a hyper-local level. The Helios digital platform applies Exelis image science to thousands of ground-based cameras and sensors across the US. Access to the Helios data is made available through three standard application programming interfaces (APIs), Helios4Forecast,
January 6, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
1964 TrafficLand has partnered with information solutions provider Exelis and TrafficLand to apply Exelis’ Helios next-generation image science to America’s largest traffic camera network to deliver real-time weather condition information at a hyper-local level.

The Helios digital platform applies Exelis image science to thousands of ground-based cameras and sensors across the US.

Access to the Helios data is made available through three standard application programming interfaces (APIs), Helios4Forecast, Helios4Apps, and Helios4Enterprise. The APIs were designed for product managers, operation centre managers and applications developers for easily incorporating relevant weather information into their forecasting tools, browser-based products, mobile applications, and enterprise systems. Custom APIs are also available to meet specific customer requirements.

TrafficLand provides Exelis with direct access to its network of over 18,000 traffic cameras with coverage in every major market and along every highway system across the country. Exelis applies its analytics to help customers with autonomous monitoring and detection of current weather conditions to increase their situational awareness, operational efficiencies and to prevent accidents.

Eric Webster, Exelis vice president of environmental intelligence, commented, “A formal relationship with TrafficLand provides us with high-quality data and a national footprint.”

“This exciting partnership with Exelis underscores the value of TrafficLand’s national camera footprint and makes it possible to leverage the unique capabilities our combined technologies offer,” said Lawrence Nelson, CEO of TrafficLand. “Live, accurate information about surface-level road conditions, available across platforms, specific to each user’s location, is a breakthrough and it will support better decision-making by individual commuters, emergency responders and others.”
Air Quality & Weather Systems

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Preparing for unpredictable precipitation
    August 18, 2015
    ITS solutions are helping streamline winter road maintenance for Delaware and Illinois, two states that must deal with dynamic weather and varying snowfall totals. Andrew Bardin Williams reports. Wilmington and Newark (pronounced new-ark) are two vastly different cities that sit on opposite ends of Delaware. Newark is a sleepy university town of roughly 30,000 residents abutting the state’s western border with Maryland and Pennsylvania, and often gets confused with its larger namesake in New Jersey.
    Read More
  • Jonathan Raper from TransportAPI is surfing the open data tidal wave
    August 13, 2015
    Jonathan Raper, managing director of the TransportAPI talks to Colin Sowman about the benefits open data can bring to the public transport sector. That the digital revolution would change the world, including transport, was never in doubt but the question has always been: how? Now, with the ‘Millennium Bug’ relegated to a question on quiz shows, the potential and challenges of digital technology are starting to take shape - and Jonathan Raper is in the vanguard. Raper is managing director of the open data t
    Read More
  • Inrix mobile app provides real time travel , route information
    July 1, 2016
    The new Inrix Traffic mobile app uses machine learning to predict and personalise the user’s routes, destinations and alerts, adding favourite places automatically. Based on learned activities, it creates a daily, driver-specific itinerary of anticipated trips, as well as frequent and preferred routes. By accessing calendar information on a mobile device, the app also adds events with addresses to the daily driving itinerary.
    Read More
  • US county launches real-time bus information
    September 5, 2016
    Loudoun County, Virginia has launched a new real-time bus information system that provides commuter bus riders with accurate arrival times of their buses. Bus Time is a web-based tool that can be viewed using a web browser on a mobile device, laptop or PC. This program helps passengers plan their commute by allowing them to see the next several buses scheduled to arrive at their selected stop.
    Read More

Highlighted Content