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Elektra VMS family

Siemens has launched a brand-new Variable Message Sign family (VMS) - the Elektra. According to the company's systems marketing manager, Mark Bodger, Elektra provides customers with a totally new solution for VMS implementations: "Elektra signs bring a number of key benefits to all styles of installation, whether car park, driver information or for other applications.
February 6, 2012 Read time: 1 min
189 Siemens has launched a brand-new Variable Message Sign family (VMS) - the Elektra. According to the company's systems marketing manager, Mark Bodger, Elektra provides customers with a totally new solution for VMS implementations: "Elektra signs bring a number of key benefits to all styles of installation, whether car park, driver information or for other applications. Available in a range of different enclosure sizes, with display characters from 100mm up to 320mm and easy integration to new and existing 1682 UTMC management systems, Elektra efficiently provides real time car park and driver information to motorists."

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