Page 24 - TT Mag Oct 2023 Digital Edition

COVER STORY

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 GOLD PARTNER
differentiating between vehicular
traffic and pedestrians, a drawback
Dale Luelf in certain current products.
MetroCount “Sensors can now give you
pedestrian direction, where some
of silane-based solutions, including cities are calling out for that kind
bitumen additives, which have of information. They are improving
applications in the soil and the top their bicycle and walking tracks for A new development announced
layers of the road. His fundamental healthy lifestyles around the world. by Custom Engineering Pvt Ltd is the
shift is to use the additives with the But you need data to determine ticket retraction feature in its VKP 83
existing soil available, increasing where those tracks should go, receipt printer. If, for instance, a car
the strength of that very material. where they are being used the is standing at an automated parking
He spoke about how it quickens most and where the government booth and if the customer has not
construction speed and provides a should be spending their money to collected the ticket, the printer has
non-deformative long life. support those journeys.” 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.

Tausif Patel
Custom Engineering Pvt Ltd

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