Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

The Intelligent Transportation Society of Nevada has named the Nevada Traffic Incident Management (TIM) 2015 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Project of the Year by ITS Nevada in the under US$2 million category. Developed by engineering and construction firm Parsons, the state-wide project uses a multifaceted approach to provide incident responders throughout Nevada with TIM education, facilitation of crash debriefings, and joint operations policies. Parsons performed a variety of TIM tasks

Barco and Peripheral Vision are to partner in South Africa to provide the country’s resellers and system integrators with access to Barco’s extensive audio-visual (AV) product portfolio. This new agreement is part of Barco’s global partner program strategy and makes Peripheral Vision an official South African distributor of a wide range of Barco products, from networked AV, the complete line-up of Barco projectors (except digital cinema projectors) and image processing solutions through to the ClickShare

US-based machine vision supplier BitFlow said it is the first frame grabber manufacturer to support workstation graphics processor units (GPU) from both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). New software co-developed by BitFlow and the two GPU makers enables the integration of the GPUs with the BitFlow buffer interface API (BufIn) and the processing power of NVIDIA and AMD.

Swedish companies Denso, Qamcom, Amparo Solutions and Acreo Swedish ICT are jointly developing new radar sensors for improved traffic safety. The 79GHz UWB Imaging Radar Sensor project claims the current 24 GHz and 77GHz systems have bandwidth limitations and its members aim to develop more effective radar technology.

FLIR Traficon Academy is organising a variety of online training in January 2016, including ITS solutions for traffic management and Flir ThermiCam, where participants can learn how its ThermiCam/TrafiSense sensor can be used for pedestrian presence detection, bicycle presence detection, vehicle presence detection, inverse direction detection, and data collection. The company is also offering traffic training on intersections and crossings in May. Visit the Flir website for more information on the ran