Products

South Africa’s Nortech International is showing a new diagnostic tool for checking the functionality of inductive loops. The company is launching its DU700 at Intertraffic. “It provides full diagnostics by Bluetooth,” explained sales executive Warren Lancaster. “Historically, such diagnostics have been made using a hand-held device. This takes it to the next level. It’s for installers and end-users, who can use it to assess what’s happening on the site.”

Sketch pads, tablet computers, even beer mats – all media in which Amsterdam-based caricaturist Jill Hesketh works when doing her drawings, whether at weddings, private parties…or trade shows.

Spanish parking specialist ParkHelp has introduced its new camera-based parking guidance system (PGS), with its new ParkManager software modules. The system relies on new ‘double detection’ technology. This employs cameras that both read the licence plate of a vehicle in a parking space and also detect the volume of the vehicle.

French company E-Totem is showing its new e-Twin Premium vehicle charging station, 800 of which are due to be installed in France over the next two years.

Intertraffic visitors can view Tubthumpa, which is claimed to be ‘the ultimate rebounding signpost’, on the Saferoads Pty stand in Hall 5. Tubthumpa is an integrated rebounding post and sign designed to eliminate constantly damaged signs on traffic islands and centre medians.

HR Groep’s Infrastructure Category award-winning Smart Ultimate Lighting takes pride of place on its stand in Hall 1. This is a road sign that incorporates a foil (similar to mobile phone screen technology) which illuminates at night to light-up road signs rather than requiring separate incandescent or LED lighting. According to the company the foil provides sufficient light, even in inclement weather conditions such as rain and fog, that the sign remains totally visible.

It was Intertraffic that got Sweden’s Triplesign – makers of three-faceted variable signs – on the road to business success, so it is no surprise that the firm is back this year.

TrafiRadar, an integrated radar and visual intersection monitoring and sensing system, is being demonstrated by Flir. The unit contains both a Doppler radar and a megapixel camera and can detect the presence, speed and location of a vehicle up to 250m from the stop line.

Swedish road safety solutions supplier ATA has announced the strategic acquisition of FMK Trafikprodukter here at Intertraffic. ATA, a subsidiary of the UK based infrastructure group Hill & Smith Holdings, has bought FMK as the latest move in its growth strategy for the Nordic region.

Easylux says it has transformed the portable retroreflector market with its MiniReflecto Horizontal. The MiniReflecto is a family of innovative instruments for on-site or laboratory measuring of retroreflection and reflection properties. Items that can be measured include road markings, road signs, road studs, safety clothing and any objects or material designed to reflect light.

Motorcyclists are one of the most vulnerable groups of road users. Their lack of protection from accident impacts puts them at particular risk.

A new flexible bollard for cycleways is being exhibited by SignPost Solutions, based on the company’s popular SPS 3Sixty product. The new flexible information bollard has been crash tested to the European standard BS EN 12767:2007.