Brimming with Technology and Innovations

This thread of innovation continued with Himanshu Agarwal, COO, Zydex Industries, who is not considering incremental changes to the road infrastructure. He spoke about a set of silane-based solutions, including bitumen additives, which have applications in the soil and the top layers of the road. His fundamental shift is to use the additives with the existing soil available, increasing the strength of that very material. He spoke about how it quickens construction speed and provides a non-deformative long life.

MetroCount, which specialises in Traffic Monitoring Systems – shone the spotlight on their new sensors. The solar-powered RoadPod VM can be installed within 60 seconds and provide data through the cloud. Dale Luelf, Sales Manager at MetroCount, also spoke about differentiating between vehicular traffic and pedestrians, a drawback in certain current products. “Sensors can now give you pedestrian direction, where some cities are calling out for that kind of information. They are improving their bicycle and walking tracks for healthy lifestyles around the world. But you need data to determine where those tracks should go, where they are being used the most and where the government should be spending their money to support those journeys.”

A new development announced by Custom Engineering Pvt Ltd is the ticket retraction feature in its VKP 83 receipt printer. If, for instance, a car is standing at an automated parking booth and if the customer has not collected the ticket, the printer has the feature of retracting the ticket back so that it does not go to some other customer. Tausif Patel, Country Director India, spoke about the new products being announced – such as the mobile computer (scanning the QR code, QR scanner inbuilt) and the Daytona Machine (for billing purposes).

Innovation is easy to claim, but harder to showcase. This was not the case at the Expo, as exhibitors discussed various solutions and products that are currently in development.