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Mercury launches smart sign range

Australian company Mercury Innovation is set to launch a range of smart signs that deliver real-time information to road side users. The company claims that, for the first time, these ‘smart signs’ will allow for the costeffective delivery of customised site-specific messages/conditions to single individual signs or groups of signs in a network of interconnected devices within a smart city network. Three new products are being unveiled here with week - two complimentary traffic signs, the ‘eMajor’ and the
October 10, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Australian company 8504 Mercury Innovation is set to launch a range of smart signs that deliver real-time information to road side users. The company claims that, for the first time, these ‘smart signs’ will allow for the costeffective delivery of customised site-specific messages/conditions to single individual signs or groups of signs in a network of interconnected devices within a smart city network.

Three new products are being unveiled here with week - two complimentary traffic signs, the ‘eMajor’ and the ‘eMinor’ - as well as the ‘eStop’ real-time electronic bus stop.

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