Products

Itree, a new member of ITS Australia, is attending its first ITS World Congress. It is focusing on its domain expertise that adds value to compliance and regulatory projects through the provision of professional services, in addition to the company’s Regulationworks product suite. Regulationworks, now at version 4, provides a benchmark enterprise back office system to underpin a total compliance solution. Standard workflow frameworks provide configurable answers to registration and licencing; risk, safety

Through the melodic rhythm of the didgeridoo and traditional dancing, the 2016 ITS World Congress opening ceremony reflected the 2,500 generations that indigenous people have lived in Australia while the speakers considered the challenges facing host city Melbourne, other urban areas around Australia

International Benefits Evaluation Community’s (IBEC) new 'Evaluation of Intelligent Road Transport Systems: Methods and Results' handbook is being officially launched at this week's ITS World Congress. After more than three decades of development and deployment of ITS, decision makers would like to know the impacts; researchers would like to study the new methods used and compare the results in different countries; industry partners would like to know the state of the art and the trends. Until now, there h

German manufacturer, Innosent has been developing, producing and marketing radar sensors for well over a decade. By using electromagnetic waves, the technology detects the distance, speed and angle of moving or stationery vehicles. Innosent is focused on the development of customised solutions for its national and international B2B customers.

Kapsch is presenting and demonstrating its new tolling system solution which it calls "The Next Generation Back Office". This new solution is a set of interconnected modules that support the automation of core processes like customer management, account management, inventory management, shift management, invoicing, payments, billing, escalations, case management, violation enforcement, rating, validation, trip building and interoperability. It was designed and built to reduce the total cost of implementing

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

The Ideal of S series, being launched here by Taiwan company Komoto, is an intelligent and compact LED light source for a range of traffic applications including law enforcement, ANPR, E-tolling and traffic monitoring. The S series uses the latest high power LED and intelligent MCU technology, which is integrated through an RS485 interface with pulse input and pulse output. Multi-flash and dual angle for multi-lane usage is supported.

Germany-headquartered Init is highlighting the company’s revolutionary ID-based ticketing solution that helps public transport companies to offer their passengers more convenience while streamlining sales. According to Init, other than traditional cardbased ticketing systems, ID-based systems hold the customer data and business logic in the backend system, such as Mobilevario. This approach makes the ticketing system much more flexible. Moreover, the open architecture approach of Mobilevario allows the eas

Autotalks is using the ITS World Congress Melbourne to launch Craton2, which the company claims is the most advanced worldwide-compliant V2X solution available today. Designed to meet the rigorous requirements for sensor-fusion and autonomous vehicles, Craton2 claims to offer best in-class future-proof V2X cybersecurity protection. Its high level of integration is said to make it the most cost-optimised V2X solution. The cybersecurity solution offers multiple protection layers and its cryptographicagile s

Gridsmart Technologies is at the ITS World Congress Melbourne with a next-generation development – the all new GS2 Processor and Performance Modules to help traffic professionals better identify improvement opportunities at any intersection.

During the ITS World Congress, French software and robotics developer EasyMile, using the Melbourne Grand Prix venue at Albert Park, to demonstrate the features and benefits of its EZ10 electric shuttle. Manufactured by French light weight automobile maker Ligier, the EZ10 is an electric people mover capable of transporting up to 12 people (6 seating positions and 6 standing positions). It also caters to reduced mobility passengers. With no steering wheel and no dedicated front or back, the EZ10 follows a

Lufft, known globally for its Marwis road weather sensor, is featuring an array sensors for mobile or stationary road weather information systems (RWIS) and automated weather observation sensors (AWOS). They consist of, amongst others, professional all-in-one weather sensors such as the WS800, road sensors, including the IRS31PRO-UMB, as well as visibility sensors, like the VS2k and VS20k. These technologies warn against slipperiness, imminent black ice, aquaplaning, precipitation, fog and other kinds of tr

Singapore-headquartered ATT Systems Group is highlighting its iTU system which has been designed to detect, monitor and analyse human, vehicle and other objects of interest. This compact and industrial grade electronic unit also works coherently with more than one type of sensor to form an intelligent expert system. It is capable of monitoring moving objects with speeds from 15km/h to 120km/h on both pathways and expressways when integrated with the appropriate sensors. Advance sensor technology detects and

Data Signs (Australia) is using this week’s ITS World Congress exhibition to launch two new LED-based traffic control products, and to highlight its range of products to a broader international audience. New products on display are a variable speed limit sign and solar-powered portable traffic lights, both of which are controlled using Data Signs’ inhouse developed touch screen systems. Its variable speed limit sign supports Transmax’s ITS Streams platform, as well as all relevant Australian standards, wh

As the 2016 ITS World Congress was opening its doors, hacking trio Hong Yew, Ram Kanagaratnam and Kyle Mantesso of team Geolicious were collecting the AU$10,000 first prize in the ITS 2016 Mastercard Smart Cities Hackathon. the first ITS Smart City Hack was designed to encourage collaboration and innovative thinking and was the largest event of its kind in Australia. Total prize money of AU$20,000 enticed 16 teams of Australia’s most talented developers, designers and entrepreneurs to enter the two-day e