Products

Ford has developed clothing which has built-in indicators and flashing brake lights for cyclists. Smart Jacket was developed with urban cycling clothing specialist Lumo and mobility software company Tome, and allows cyclists to better indicate their presence and intentions to other road users. The wearable’s navigation app wirelessly connects to smartphones and vibrates the jacket’s sleeves to help riders take the right direction to avoid busy roads. It features audible interfaces and a system which allow

Navtech Radar has launched a sensor to complement its ClearWay solution and provide automatic incident detection (AID) coverage in highways and tunnels for 175m in both directions. Phil Avery, the company’s managing director, claims that the solution is ideal for applications where line of sight is limited. Called CTS175, the solution features Clearview’s AID solution and can be used for traffic applications, including roads, tunnels and bridges. The company says that a choice of two sensors gives maximum f

BriefCam has launched its V5 video content analytics platform to help enterprises and law enforcement agencies generate visual evidence. The product combines computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies to help users pinpoint objects of interest. The company says that V5 brings new capabilities across all three of the system’s integrated modules to help make video searchable and actionable. V5 includes semantic detection for increased object extraction quality and a video search function with

Teledyne Dalsa has launched its Genie Nano-M2450 polarised camera built around Sony’s Pregius 5.1M polarised image sensor. The model features a monochrome quad polarisation filter, resolution of 2448 x 2048 pixels, and aims to deliver an image capture of 35 frames per second. The product also utilises the company’s TurboDrive technology with the intention of increasing frame rates by up to 50%. Additionally, the device is said to offer polarisation for both area and line scan (Piranha 4 polarisation) camera

Matrox Graphics has won the NewBay Best of Show Award for its enterprise encoder appliance at the 2018 NAB Show. Sound & Video Contractor chose the platform for its ability to simultaneously capture, stream and record up to 4K input from a single appliance. Called Matrox Maevex 6150 Quad 4K Enterprise Encoder Appliance, the solution aims to feed on-premises and cloud-based servers to reach internet viewers and push streams over local area networks for local audiences. The innovation can also record to

Goodyear has unveiled an information system that includes a tyre, sensors and cloud-based algorithms. The intelligent tyre prototype is designed with the intention of providing continuous connectivity and real-time data sharing for safer and more cost-efficient mobility. The sensors on the shared mobility product solution work with the vehicle and third-party information to provide real-time data to Goodyear’s proprietary algorithms. It delivers information on tyre ID and status including wear, temperature

Qroutes' route planning software has helped Bedford Borough Council reorganise its home to school transport network. The solution is said to have saved over £200,000 ($140,000) a year in transport costs and has assisted in planning transport for 3,000 school children. Additionally, Bedford has used the cloud-based service to plan transport for 700 special educational needs students and 1000 social care users. The council manages a fleet of approximately 50 in-house vehicles which mainly transport the most

There’s nothing for it: we need to talk about Mobility as a Service (MaaS). The late Stephen Hawking’s publisher once told him that his readership would be cut in half for every equation he put in a book. Well, here goes nothing… One of the most famous equations in physics is Isaac Newton’s Second Law of Motion: Force = mass x acceleration. With a little tweaking, I think we

Lucid Vision Labs will expand its Power over Ethernet (PoE) camera range with Phoenix models that feature 0.4 MP Sony Pregius IMX287 and the 1.6 MP IMX273 global shutter complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor sensors, running at 291 fps and 77 fps, respectively. The company says that the Phoenix camera has a transformable design that can be configured to meet a range of original equipment manufacturer applications. The board layout can be tri-folded into a stacked camera which can also be unfolded into a

ABB has added alternative current (AC) wallboxes to its portfolio of charging solutions. The company says that the systems can be installed in homes and businesses and are suited to companies that want to provide overnight charging facilities. The products are manufactured with a robust all-weather enclosure for indoor and outdoor use and are available in different versions, offering 4.6 and 11 kW AC charging as well as 22 kW AC 3-phase charging. The chargers are fitted and maintained via ABB’s global

California-based Vigilant Solutions has launched a licence plate-enabled parking (LEP) enforcement solution that uses vehicle location data to assist parking agencies in enforcing policies and collecting outstanding fines. The platform is coupled with the company’s commercial data network to help parking enforcement work more efficiently with local police officers to address violations involving on-street and off-street lots. Vigiliant’s LEP device is said to offer access to open application programming