Detection, Monitoring & Machine Vision

Cubic Transportation Systems has entered into a strategic alliance and licence agreement with Australia-based video analytics specialist SenSen Networks, enabling Cubic to distribute SenSen’s products and solutions that align with Cubic’s NextCity smart cities vision. The companies plan to deliver a range of solutions to the market, including automatic gate line monitoring in train stations and transport hubs using video analytics and intelligent video to increase commuter flow, detect health and safety

Image Sensing Systems (ISS) has announced an integration and partnership agreement with licence plate recognition (LPR) and parking solutions provider, which will leverage ISS’ licence plate recognition technology and NuPark’s customer focused LPR parking technology platform. The companies claim the combination of NuPark’s robust modern platform and ISS’ state of the art recognition engine and cameras will provide parking professionals with an innovative system that creates operational efficiency, improv

Global Traffic Technologies (GTT), have added speed, class and count to detection capabilities to their Canoga 9000 series, in a single width four-channel traffic management card. Historically, two cards were needed to obtain the same information. Canoga includes Ethernet so it can connect to GTT’s central management software (CMS), which enables traffic engineers to access key data, run customised reports, and receive maintenance alerts—all in real time, all from a remote location.

Video security and surveillance systems Vicon Industries has completed the previously announced merger with IQinVision, a designer and producer of high performance HD/megapixel IP cameras. The merger creates a global market leader of integrated solutions to the video security market.

Iteris has reported financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended31 March 2014, indicating total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2014 increased 11 per cent to US$17.6 million compared to US$15.9 million in the same quarter last year. This was primarily driven by a 25 per cent increase in roadway sensors. iPerform revenues were also up 14 per cent, while transportation systems revenues were down one per cent. Total revenues in 2014 increased 11 per cent to US$68.2 million compared to

Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is working toward making the state’s roads safer, using the Canoga traffic sensing solution from Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) to warn at-risk drivers when cross-traffic is approaching. Nearly 70 per cent of fatal vehicle collisions in Minnesota, as well as other states, occur on roads in rural communities, where higher speeds, varying terrain and inconsistent sightlines can put many drivers in danger. The MnDOT initiative is part of the nationwide Towards

Clearview Traffic Group will once again be holding a series of UK road shows this autumn, with a focus on Smarter Travel and concentrating on the theme of investigating sustainable routes to unblocking our roads.

Siemens has won an order worth more than £656,000 to supply more than 50 Sitraffic Sicore automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. The cameras, which Siemens says are capable of recognising more than half a million number plates a day, will be used to monitor traffic in the event of congestion. Commissioning is planned for spring 2015.