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A driving simulator designed to improve safety at speed for all emergency service vehicle drivers has been launched by Babcock International. Whilst the prototype has been created to mimic a standard fire engine, Babcock believes the concept can be adapted to train the drivers of any emergency response vehicle. The simulator features a 200° wraparound screen with modifiable seat and controls, while its software is programmed with 270km (167 miles) of multi-terrain routes including urban, city and rura

Automatic vehicle identification and parking detection technology specialist Nedap has launched the uPASS Target, a high-end RFID reader designed or long-range identification using the Rain RFID (UHF EPC Gen II) Standard. According to Nedap, uPASS Target is suitable for applications where vehicles and other moving objects must be identified automatically using passive RFID tags. The new reader offers a read range of up to 10m (33 ft.) which enables it to provide long-range identification of vehicles, peo

Ortana hit the ground running at Intertraffic 2016, with a busy first day on the stand and a third place in the Innovation Awards for its Meteos 251 overhead road surface sensor. “The show has been very good for us so far,” said Ali Ruhi Alsancak, Ortana regional manager, Middle East, Asia and Africa. “We were placed third in the awards and had a lot of visitors to the stand.”

You might think that a static metal or concrete bollard would be a cheap way of marking off a restricted area or car park. But it can cost up to €30,000 to install a bollard. And costs continue to be incurred, as bollards will typically be damaged by vehicles five or six times in a year. In fact, it is five times cheaper to install a camera and link it to licence plate-reading software and a ‘white list’ of vehicles that are allowed to enter the restricted area, says Erik Dijkshoorn, director of Vigilans, w

Telegra has come up with a clever means of solving some common problems in video based automatic incident detection (AID). The company’s new XAID system is essentially software that improves the accuracy of video AID by tracking and recording the path of vehicles or people and then acting on any object that behaves in an unusual manner.

What could well be the future of tolling and road user charging can be seen on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ stand in the Elicium. The company has won the contract to provide the technology behind Singapore’s forthcoming upgraded electronic road pricing (ERP) system which will come into effect in 2020.

Moxa is here at Intertraffic to launch its new IEX-408E-2VDSL2 industrial managed Ethernet extender switch for establishing long distance Ethernet transmissions over twisted-pair copper wiring.

A pair of glasses with built-in automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) has been developed by Intertraffic exhibitor Lector Vision. The glasses have an onboard camera, GPS and a CPU along with software to allow plate recognition to be executed inside the glasses.

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.