Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

Canada-headquartered advanced digital imaging products specialist Point Grey has announced the appointment of ClearView Imaging as its exclusive distributor in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The city council of Sant Cugat del Vallés in Spain last week inaugurated a revolutionary smart city project to improve the mobility, sustainability and life of the citizens of this town, which is located next to the city of Barcelona.

PIPS Technology has entered into an exclusive agreement with Intuidex to bring cutting-edge analytics to the public safety licence plate recognition (LPR) market.

UK company Traffic Technology has supplied Surrey County Council with its SDR (speed detection radar) above ground vehicle classifier as part of the Drive Smart campaign, a partnership initiative involving Surrey County Council and Surrey Police that targets anti-social driving. Speeding was highlighted as the issue of greatest concern to local residents so all eleven boroughs or districts in Surrey have been supplied with at least two SDRs.

The Open Standard for Public Transport (OSPT) Alliance has announced that Samsung Electronics has joined as a full member and will pursue the development of commercialised semiconductor products for building next-generation transit fare collection systems based on the Cipurse open security standard.

IMS Research has released the 2011 edition of the World Market Report for Mobile Video Surveillance Equipment, identifying Apollo Video Technology as the 2010 market leader in sales revenue for transit bus mobile video surveillance equipment in the Americas.

UK company Traffic Technology Limited has revealed its involvement with a project that creates an important new link across the River Foyle in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, connecting the Waterside with the city side.

Metric, together with US partner MobileNow, a leading provider of pay by cell parking services, has introduced what is being claimed as the first commercial parking payment service which allows a barcode printed on a ticket to be remotely scanned for the parking session to be extended.