Networking & Communication Systems

TeleNav has launched hybrid navigation technology which can provide premium turn-by-turn navigation and local search capabilities by either using real-time data sent to the phone over the wireless network or data that has been cached on the device.

43 Efkon has launched its Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a high-quality product for the automotive, transport, communication and industrial markets. According to the company, it is the world's first ASIC to receive the international ISO CALM Infrared standard. This state-of-the-art product offers an ASIC with a green technology which uses infrared to provide high-speed, ISO standardised communication. Efkon says its next-generation ASIC not only saves energy but also helps to optimise users' costs and processes.

Westermo's DDW-120 Ethernet extender allows existing twisted pair cables to be used to establish a high-speed remote connection between two Ethernet networks.

Damian Black, CEO and founder of SQLstream Inc, writes about relational stream processing for real-time intelligent transport systems Almost unnoticed there is a revolution going on in Internet data which is different from anything seen before. It is taking place in sensor data, which research organisation Gartner predicts in 2012 will exceed 20 per cent of all non-video Internet traffic.

Iteris's Greg McKhann makes the case for policymakers to look more seriously at the use of ITS as a means of increasing existing infrastructure capacity