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April 11, 2022

Signify buys Telensa

Signify has bought the UK-based smart street lighting business Telensa from Plextek Group for an undisclosed sum.
Last summer, Telensa won a contract from Essex Highways in England to replace and upgrade smart street lighting controls on 82,000 residential streetlights in Essex county (image courtesy Telensa)
April 8, 2022

FOSA win for Fotech

Road surface vibrations are being monitored via fibre optic cable in the UK to gain valuable data about roadside air quality.
April 8, 2022

Bitumen technology: cutting maintenance costs

Thicklift in Utah, epoxy modification for Ethiopia and inbuilt de-icing in South Korea - a focus on technologies designed to lower maintenance and rehabilitation costs over the life of a pavement
UDOT chose one of the most challenging locations in the State: the POE on Interstate 80 which usually suffers heavy rutting from trucks
April 7, 2022

Safer construction sites with technology

Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, is now offering upgrades to its modular safety awareness solutions. The Leica iCON PA10 and PA80 are suited for use on construction sites and were designed initially to concentrate on identifying pedestrians.
Leica Geosystems is now offering an improved machine warning system
April 5, 2022

A titan of a barrier gate from SMA

SMA Road Safety’s new Titanus barrier gate is tested in class H4B to allow for continuity of H4 barriers. Meanwhile, thanks to its W2 working width, SMA says that Titanus is ideal for areas characterised by a reduced length opening section.
The new Titanus barrier gate from Italian firm SMA Road Safety is lightweight, making it suitable for use on bridges and viaducts
April 4, 2022

Epoxy resins for resilient roads in Ethiopia

Using epoxy bitumen in chip seals could significantly increase the life of high-volume roads in low-income countries and make them more resilient to climate change impacts. The technology, which has been developed and used in New Zealand, will be trialled in Ethiopia this year.
A modified spray bar has two sets of nozzles for the two-component epoxy bitumen system
April 4, 2022

Customer Comes Full Circle with Komatsu iMC 2.0

In 2017, the Budorealizacja company from Myślenice, Poland started using the first ever Komatsu intelligent Machine Control (iMC) excavator to be delivered in the country. Over four years on, the company now owns 10 Komatsu iMC machines across both excavators and dozers, and significantly, its fleet was further expanded when they recently became the first Polish customer to take delivery of an iMC 2.0 version of the PC210LCi-11
iMC 2.0 is the next generation of the intelligent Machine Control that will deliver step changes in your daily operation
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