Products

TomTom has added the compact Trucker 5000 to its portable navigation device specifically drivers of large vehicles. The device has a 5-inch screen and includes customised routes for specific vehicle type, size, weight, cargo and speed, which is combined with TomTom’s traffic and routing technology to provide ETAs based on vehicle profile and real-time traffic information.

Raytec’s new range of Panoramic Ultra infra-red illuminators is designed for all PTZ dome, wide angle and multi-sensor cameras covering a large area. It provides powerful wide angle 180-degree illumination to allow these cameras to generate outstanding images at night, at distances up to 150 metres and beyond – all from one illuminator.

Collision Call is a new app which measures G-forces and will automatically alerts emergency services after a serious collision.

Designed to offer a cost-conscious lighting solution for camera surveillance and safety critical applications, the new Opto range optimises budgets while delivering effective night illumination for distances of up to 430ft (130m).

Antaira Technologies’ LMP-1002G-SFP and LMP-1002G-SFP-24 series Ethernet switches have been designed for outdoor industrial automation applications, including high density traffic control equipment and surveillance systems.

Siemens’ new Sapphire journey time measurement system (JTMS) offers a low cost, simple to deploy solution for recording and analysing journey times and network performance, says the company.

Inrix Road Weather, the latest product from Inrix, uses data from connected cars and weather predictions to provide information on road conditions with updated alerts every 15 minutes. The system, developed in collaboration with Global Road Weather Corporation, provides information including type of precipitation, surface conditions and visibility.

The SmartDrive video-based driver performance improvement program helps eliminate the riskiest driving manoeuvres to reduce collision frequency and severity, costs and improve the overall safety performance of the fleet, according to SmartDrive Systems.

Matrix Vision is to incorporate Sony’s forthcoming global shutter CMOS sensors, the 1/1.8-inch IMX250 and 2/3-inch IMX252, into its mvBlueCOUGAR-XD Dual-GigE and mvBlueFOX3-2 USB3 Vision camera ranges. Initially the 3.2 megapixel IMX252 will be available as the mvBlueCOUGAR-XD104h and mvBlueFOX3-2032, with the 5.1 megapixel IMX250 (mvBlueCOUGAR-XD105a and) mvBlueFOX3-2051 models available early next year.

Image Sensing Systems’ RTMS Sx-300 is a small roadside pole-mounted radar operating in the microwave band. It combines the company’s RTMS radar with a Bluetooth sensor for incident detection, travel time calculation and origin/destination information.

Swiss wireless and positioning modules supplier, u-blox, a has launched a portfolio of Long Term Evolution (LTE) low data-rate cellular modules supporting the 4G wireless communications standard LTE Category 1, for the industrial and automotive markets.

Point Grey has added a 1.3 MP global shutter CMOS to its Chameleon3 family of USB3 Vision cameras, which is said to combine USB 3.0 ease-of-use and the most popular CCD and CMOS image sensors in a small and flexibility board-level and an affordable package.

Reno A&E has launched two intersection malfunction management units (MMU), the RAE MMU2-1600GE and MMU2-1600G, which are compliant with the NEMA TS2-2003 (R2008) standard for Traffic Controller Assemblies.

Kontron’s new KBox A-202 is a modular box PC supporting Intel gateway solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). Based on the Intel Atom processor E3800, the low maintenance, fanless and battery-free machine-to-machine platform is designed as an intelligent gateway for data intensive IoT applications including those in industrial automation, transportation and communications.

Automotive supplier Continental has developed an app that uses surround view camera technology to provide automated parking. Its prototype vehicle has four fisheye cameras – one in the front grille, another at the rear and one in each side mirror. Each camera has a viewing angle of more than 180° to provide a full 360° view all-round the vehicle, which is displayed on a touch screen inside the car together with vacant parking spaces identified as being wide enough. The driver first touches the image