MG Squared debuted the first lowering device designed for surveillance cameras at the ITS World Congress back in 1996. Fast forward to this ITS World Congress 2014 and the company has substantially increased its global footprint. With tens of thousands of its innovative lowering devices installed worldwide, MG Squared’s Martin Maners is convinced they are still at the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Maners notes, “reports indicate the US$20 billion global surveillance market will grow at a CAGR of around 1
September 7, 2014
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Expanding horizons: Shep Maners of MG Squared
93 MG Squared debuted the first lowering device designed for surveillance cameras at the ITS World Congress back in 1996. Fast forward to this ITS World Congress 2014 and the company has substantially increased its global footprint. With tens of thousands of its innovative lowering devices installed worldwide, MG Squared’s Martin Maners is convinced they are still at the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Maners notes, “reports indicate theUS$20 billion global surveillance market will grow at a CAGR of around 14% through 2017. Even if only 20% of the cameras referenced in the forecast utilised the maintenance saving lowering device, our future sales would dwarf the solid numbers we have been posting year after year.”
One recently added country to the MG Squared resumé is Qatar where the transportation authority has begun to rapidly invest in ITS deployment. The cameras to be used throughout Qatar’s roadways are being placed on camera lowering devices. These systems greatly enhance the safety, ease and speed that cameras can be maintained and cleaned in the rugged desert environment in that Gulf Region. As of August 2014, MG Squared has made claim to the first camera lowering devices installed in Qatar - the first project of many in the Qatar-MG Squared pipeline began with over 100 lowering devices on 15m poles.
The company suggest that delegates interested in “Lowering Down Time & Raising Performance” within any of their structure mounted surveillance camera applications, would do well adding their footprints in front of the MG Squared booth.
Leading Italian ITS company Tattile is here at Intertraffic to expand its product range with the launch of new products, including ANPR Mobile and Vega Color. ANPR Mobile, a new cutting-edge technology in support of police forces, incorporates Megapixel sensors enabling it to scan over 100 number plates per second, front and rear, at any light condition. The newly-launched system needs neither embedded processing units nor physical connection between the cameras and the on-board computer/tablet.
Swedish-headquartered Sensys Traffic is looking forward to a very successful Intertraffic event. On the basis that success breeds success, in just the last few weeks alone, the company has notched up important sales. Sensys has received sub-orders worth over €9.5 million from the Swedish Transport Administration to supply measurement systems and measurement cabinets for traffic safety cameras for the Swedish ATC system, with indications of further business volume in the forthcoming years. Earlier this month
Metric Group predicts that 2014 will go down in its long history as ‘the year of innovation’. The company is bringing to the market several innovations, not only to current concepts, but new ones as well. Visitors to Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014 have the opportunity of seeing these Metric innovations, across the parking industry from local government to retail and leisure, at first hand.
Here at Intertraffic, pay and display innovations include touch-screen terminals and the company is using the event to de
At this year’s ITS World Congress, Navtech Radar will be demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of using radar for Automated Incident Detection (AID) and other applications. “Radar’s capabilities, even in extremely challenging visual conditions, are now proven beyond doubt and we’ve been working over the last couple of years to make procurement and operation very cost-competitive,” says Navtech’s founding partner Stephen Clark. “System for system, radar compares well with CCTV but once performance is taken in