Networking & Communication Systems

Image Sensing Systems (ISS) has launched the RTMS SX-300 BT to its traffic management product line which comes with integrated Bluetooth sensor thanks to an agreement with Trafficnow, the developers of Bluetooth sensors for the traffic management sector.

Swedish rugged mobile computer manufacturer Handheld Group has introduced the Algiz RT7 eTicket an Android tablet which includes a specialised RFID reader, making it suitable for mobile ticketing applications.

A study by rail experts at the University of Huddersfield in the UK has concluded that railway crossing safety could be improved by networks of tiny wireless sensors attached to the tracks. Following extensive research at the university’s Institute of Railway Research (IRR), the Department for Transport-funded project established that the sensors could be powered by vibrations from approaching trains. They would then form a wireless network to send a message to lower or raise the gates. According to t

Transport for New South Wales, Australia is looking to expand on its current trial of Bluetooth beacons at Chatswood Station and bus interchange in Sydney and calling for submissions around new ways to put Bluetooth technology to use to make catching public transport easier. The Beacon Challenge follows the current trial, which uses more than 70 beacons to help customers with vision impairment to navigate between trains, buses and places of interest in and adjacent to the interchange by sending location

From September 2016, MetService and the New Zealand Transport Agency will commence a road weather mobile data acquisition trial, in conjunction with road contractors Fulton Hogan and Downer. The aim of the trial is to provide MetService, the Transport Agency, road contractors and the travelling public with pre-warning of challenging and dangerous driving conditions or potential road closures during severe weather. The six-month trial follows a pilot sensor-assessment process and aims to expand road

AT4 wireless is to provide testing services to assess the fair coexistence of wi-fi and LTE in unlicensed spectrum (LTE-U) devices in accordance with the Wi-Fi Alliance Coexistence Test Plan. The testing assesses whether commercially available LTE-U devices coexist fairly with wi-fi in the same environment. The development and deployment of LTE-U devices, which utilise 4G LTE radio communications technology in the unlicensed spectrum, introduces the possibility of interference with wi-fi equipment operat