Mercedes-Benz, one of the largest bus manufacturers in the world, recently launched its low entry City Bus in India, thus entering the city bus segment. The company has already made a mark in the long-distance inter-city segment in India. Daimler has been making to consolidate its global leadership in big business and this foray in the city bus segment falls ...
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Emergency Call Box
Encapsulated in locked, tamper-resistant GI, powder-coated enclosure. Enclosure can be painted in customised colours. Attempt to break open enclosure sounds an audio alarm and generates an event in the Central Control room. Provides full duplex conversation between user and control room operator. Control room operator can invoke conference mode and can include in conversation a third person/agency such as police ...
Essar Infra to invest Rs.10,000 crore in highways sector
Essar Infrastructure, which recently won orders worth र2500 crore from the NHAI for upgrading two national highways in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, is planning to invest र10,000 crore in the rapidly growing highways sector during the next two to three years. The NHAI project in Bihar is a BOT contract for widening the 112km stretch between Khagaria to Bakhtiyapur, and ...
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Smart chip for safer driving
US-based Xilinx, a leader in making programmable logic devices with an operations base in Hyderabad, has developed a smart chip Zynq that can be used for drivers’ assistance modules and information-entertainment applications in vehicles. The Zynq-7000 EPP (Extensible Processing Platform) is powered by the dual ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore 800 MHz processor. The stamp-sized chip will help the vehicle’s electronics to ...
Delhi to get speed interceptor vans
In a bid to contain rampant over-speeding on Delhi roads, the traffic police have procured ten speed interceptor vans which will be placed at random locations in the city. The interceptor vans have cameras that will take pictures of violating vehicles, and record the time and location of the violation, and speed of the violating vehicles. These details would then ...
Chattisgarh to get polymer based roads
The Central Government has decided to opt for a polymer based technology to build three roads in Chattisgarh under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) – in Dantewada, Bijapur and Narainpur districts. The technology, which stabilises the soil with a liquid polymer, has been accredited by the Indian Roads Congress. Laboratory tests on the technology have been carried out ...
RFID,Sensors and Scanners
Pepperl+Fuchs (India) Pvt Ltd. Proximity Sensors Inductive Sensors Reliable non-contact detection, designed for tough and hazardous industrial environments. Sensing ranges up to 100mm. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Ultrasonic Sensors Long-range detection of all solid, liquid and granular targets. Sensing range up to 10m. Both discrete and analogue outputs. Special models for sheet, splice and label detection, and teflon-coated models for chemical resistance. ...
New India-Bangaladesh rail link
India and Bangaladesh will construct a 15km railway line which will connect Agartala in Tripura to Akhaurah in Bangladesh. The track will pass through five km of Indian territory with the remaining part being in Bangladesh. While the rail line will improve accessibility in remote areas of India’s north-eastern states, on the Bangladesh side it will link the capital, Dhaka ...
Commercial vehicle market looking up in India
Top bus and truck manufacturers are set to introduce new and better models of the vehicles in the Indian commercial vehicle market. The move is thanks to the good economic conditions in the country, and the sustained expansion and improvement in transportation infrastructure. At the recent Auto Expo 2012, top players from India and abroad – Man Force, Paccar, Tata ...