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Houston Radar wins Intertraffic Innovation Award

Houston Radar has been awarded the 2016 Intertraffic Innovation Award in the Traffic Management category. The winning combination of Houston Radar's SpeedLane radar and Tetryon cloud server provides a fully integrated, ultra-low power, end-to-end traffic data collection and visualization platform. The system allows cities and communities to access their live traffic data anywhere, anytime, online. SpeedLane features two side-fire radars, a HD video camera, penta-band worldwide modem, GPS locator, MPPT
June 14, 2016 Read time: 1 min
4469 Houston Radar has been awarded the 2016 Intertraffic Innovation Award in the Traffic Management category.

The winning combination of Houston Radar's SpeedLane radar and Tetryon cloud server provides a fully integrated, ultra-low power, end-to-end traffic data collection and visualization platform. The system allows cities and communities to access their live traffic data anywhere, anytime, online.

SpeedLane features two side-fire radars, a HD video camera, penta-band worldwide modem, GPS locator, MPPT solar charger, advanced LiFePO4 battery and three months of data storage in a builtin SQL database. At only 0.8W, power consumption is one tenth that of some other devices.

The SpeedLane radar is complemented by Houston Radar’s Tetryon server, a customisable cloud server used to aggregate data from multiple SpeedLanes in one central location. The products are designed to seamlessly integrate out of the box and enable rapid deployment of the user's traffic data on the web.

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