Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

Econolite and Image Sensing Systems have introduced the Autoscope Vision detection solution, which delivers stop bar vehicle and cycle detection, advance vehicle detection, cycle differentiation, traffic data collection and HD video surveillance.

Ocularis 5, the latest video management system (VMS) solution from OnSSI is now compatible with Pelco’s Optera multi sensor panoramic cameras.

Moxa’s onboard IP surveillance cameras, the VPort 06-2 series and VPort 16-2MR, are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to maintain consistent image quality where ambient lighting conditions vary, such on board trains, which pass through a variety of different environments, including tunnels, open air and shade.

Matrox Graphics has introduced the Matrox C900, a single-slot, PCI Express x16 graphics card that drives nine displays at resolutions of up to 1920x1200 at 60Hz per output. Designed to power 3x3 or 9x1 video walls, C900 delivers one ultra-large desktop across all attached displays, ideal for digital signage, presentation, and video wall applications.

Canadian Minister of Transport Marc Garneau has proposed new regulations that will require rear-visibility systems on all new vehicles sold in Canada to provide all new car owners with improved visibility to spot people and objects behind a vehicle when they reverse. According to Transport Canada, from 2004 to 2009, it is estimated that back-over crashes were responsible for more than 1,500 injuries and 27 deaths in Canada Transport Canada will align its proposed rear visibility regulations with simil

Antaira’s David Zaveski looks at how to improve the resilience of Ethernet systems. Detection and monitoring, and the subsequent management of transport systems, is becoming ever more sophisticated and also integrated as ITS spreads wider across cities and along highways and rail corridors.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has selected TransCore to convert all nine of its bridges and tunnels to all-electronic tolling (AET). Under an accelerated roll-out schedule, TransCore will finish converting the first three facilities by January 2017. The remaining conversions will be completed by November 2017. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo first announced the New York Crossings Project in October, as a broad initiative to reduce traffic congestion and decrease vehicle emissions

France’s first AID system has halved attendance time on the Calix Viaduct. TheCentre for Traffic Engineering and Management (CIGT) at Caen in northern France manages 367km of the national network in the Manche/Calvados district including the 1.2km long, 15-span Calix Viaduct across the Canal de Caen à la Mer.

Parking provider in the Swiss city of Geneva, Fondation des Parkings (Geneva FDP) has begun a digital parking enforcement pilot using automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) scan vehicles from Arvoo and Genetec. The pilot, which will continue until the end of November 2016, aims to ensure that drivers pay for parking while making parking payment enforcement more effective. Agendum parking data analytics will process the licence plate scans to provide parking attendants with data on violating vehicles a