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RuggedCom, a Siemens company, is adding new features to its RuggedMAX portfolio enabling mass transit companies to extend persistent broadband connections to fleets of vehicles, buses or trains.

Last Monday morning two bomb blasts went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. By Friday night the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was in police custody. After he survived a gunfight with police and slipped out of a dragnet, Massachusetts State Police finally spotted him via a thermal imaging technology manufactured by Flir.

Econolite celebrated a major milestone here at the ITS America Annual Meeting – the company’s 80th birthday. It was in 1933 that Econolite began distribution of traffic signal controllers at a time when a gallon of gas cost just 10 cents and the interstate highway system hadn’t even been conceived.

ITS America announced the winners of the 2013 Best of ITS Awards on Monday, recognizing the most innovative projects and influential achievements in the industry: BEST INNOVATIVE PRODUCT

Iteris has today formally announced Vantage IDM, which provides a simple unified module combining video vehicle detection and high speed communications designed to integrate directly into the chassis of a National Electronics Manufacturers Association (NEMA) traffic controller. Launching the product at the ITS America Annual Meeting, the company says it is the first integrated video detection/controller module available in the North American traffic market.

Emerson Network Power is using its booth at ITS America to highlight its latest surge protection technology (up to 480V) and the evolution of Broadband-Over-Power and Power-Over-Ethernet.

Can an iPhone change a traffic signal? All you need is the new Siemens app. New connected vehicle technology from Siemens Mobility and Logistics allows traffic signals to be controlled by vehicle arrival and priority rather than timing plans. Signal changes can even be triggered by an iPhone app combined with GPS, as Siemens demonstrates at ITS America.

An important strategic task every company must do periodically is review products and make sure they match the goals and direction of the company. In March, Vaisala, the global weather solutions provider, concluded that three non-weather road transportation products no longer match its long term strategy, and thus sold these products to another company.

ITS veterans know it’s nearly impossible to come away from the annual exposition without a suitcase filled with company branded key chains, pens and thumb drives. Its just one of many perks of coming to the show. However, newcomer QVision is upping the ante, giving away two packages of its Live Loop Video traffic systems to conference goers a $250,000 value.