VMS Units in the Frame for an Overhaul

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Here at MVIS, we have been busy this week starting the grand task of reconditioning all of our variable message signs (VMS) – 150 of them to be exact!

This is in order to match the same specification and quality of our newly manufactured VMS units, so as not to distract from the message.

Previously, the MVIS frames were yellow to match the solar intelligent platforms and the trailers, but in order to help focus the road users’ attention, we are changing all of our frames to black in order to direct focus to our customer’s message, rather than the surroundings.

Now, all frames will be black to better focus on the message
Now, all frames will be black to better focus on the message

Fear not though – the screens themselves can still display up to five different colours, so your message will be seen and understood clearer than ever!

If you would like to talk to MVIS about your VMS needs, please don’t hesitate to get in touch on 01629 580570.

Best use of new technology in the highways industry

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Partners MVIS and HRS have created the first temporary road worker safety solutions which utilise variable message signs with modular electronic perimeter equipment.

It combines modular electronic perimeters and VMS, improving road worker safety costs effectively.

It is hoped that this will help reduce the number of road worker casualties as well as saving time and money, allowing road work projects to be completed on time and safely.

See more about it here >>

MVIS Sponsors Original Jesters’ Karl ‘Tinker’ Johnston

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Karl ‘Tinker’ Johnston
Karl ‘Tinker’ Johnston

MVIS is proud to announce their latest sponsored athlete as Karl ‘Tinker’ Johnston of Matlock’s Original Jesters club.

Karl, who currently holds the Professional English K1 title, made his boxing debut for the Original Jesters on Saturday last week with a new shirt featuring the MVIS logo.

Karl was up against Huddersfield’s well-known ‘Disco’ Dave Lowes who proved awkward during the first two rounds.

However, Karl quickly caught up and landed some powerful blows before winning by KO in the third round.

MVIS’ announcement comes weeks after they unveiled their first sponsor, John Mickel of Mickel Motorsports.

If you are interested in training alongside the Original Jesters, or would like to book a private session, please contact them on 07874 655146.

Show Business for MVIS

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Last weekend’s FA Vase final at Wembley marked the first in a long list of big summer events in which MVIS’ mobile and solar powered monitoring and visual information systems are being used to help keep traffic moving.

Our colour mobile variable message signs are a fantastic resource for organisers of large events, fairs and concerts, and are vital to manage the flow of people and traffic in a simple and safe manner.

Need to communicate vital information? With the ability to update the signs instantly with SMS text, event organisers can react quickly and efficiently to changing circumstances and provide up to the minute information to a large crowd.

Want to advertise a product or special offer? The colour matrix displays and sheer size of our boards are sure to attract attention, and can be programmed to display text, pictograms or logos.

Our VMS signs were crucial to ensure football fans were kept informed, and that the flow of traffic ran smoothly due to drivers knowing where to go.

We’ll also be providing VMS signs for more large events throughout the summer, such as the FA Cup Final, Hyde Park gigs for Ed Sheeran and the Foo Fighters, along with a large number of country shows and outdoor events.

If you are interested in purchasing or hiring a colour mobile variable message sign contact us today for a free no obligation demonstration. Call on 01629 580 570 or email us on sales@m-vis.co.uk

Darren Slater: North Delivery Supervisor

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As the North Delivery Supervisor, Darren has extensive knowledge of our traffic management products.

How long have you been with MVIS?:
I started at MVIS at the start of October 2014 and got promoted to delivery supervisor in December 2015.

Job role:
My day-to-day life at MVIS is based around delivering the signs to the site and maintaining the signs in the yard. I work closely with Tim Hill who is the other delivery and maintenance driver and we travel the country together to ensure the customers are happy with our products.

Recent projects:
I am involved in nearly every project in the north of the UK but recently I have done the M6 CCTV AT J22 and I am now doing the 26 VMSC for the A14 project.

How did you get into the industry:
I was told about the job by a friend and sent my CV into Anne Ashman, the general manager. I came in for a trial day and loved it and I was offered the job a couple of days later.

Most fulfilling part of your role:
The most fulfilling part of my role is delivering the VMS to customers who are happy with the product. I also like knowing the signs my team have put out on the network are keeping the roads safe.

More about me:
I’m a family man who likes spending time with friends and family. I also watch and play football for local teams.

 

 

MVIS AND MICKEL MOTORSPORT HIT THE TARMAC TOGETHER FOR 2015

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Temporary intelligent transport system (ITS) solutions provider, Mobile Visual Information Systems Ltd (MVIS), has been named as the 2015 sponsor of World Championship race team, Mickel Motorsport.

The sponsorship deal includes the use of MVIS’ high visibility solar powered variable message signs (VMS) at UK race paddocks at which the Mickel Motorsport team will compete, as well as branding on its vehicles.

Said Mickel Motorsport’s director, John Mickel: “It’s great to have a company that is at the forefront of the ITS industry forging a partnership with us. Their signs will make a great visual impact in the race paddocks.”

Added MVIS’ managing director, Pat Musgrave:  “We are delighted to support Mickel Motorsport.  So much of what MVIS does relates to the serious business of transport management, and it’s great to be able to promote the business within a more lighthearted context.”

MVIS’ VMS signs are manufactured in the UK by Bartco UK.  MVIS’ innovative, solar powered solutions incorporate ANPR and CCTV cameras and radar as well as VMS.

Event Buyers Live

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Event Buyers Live provides the events industry with a great platform to network and to do business.

The 2015 event is taking place in Bedfordshire at Luton Hoo Golf & Spa this week (4-5th March 2015), and MVIS will be there.

The show is a good opportunity for MVIS to showcase its events traffic management and crowd control solutions to organisers of live and outdoor events.

MVIS’ temporary, solar powered events solutions include high visibility variable message signs and CCTV.

The company boasts a strong events background, with contracts having included Royal Ascot, Goodwood Festival of Speed and of course the Olympics.

An introduction to Matt Felce

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Matt Felce: Technical Manager

What’s it like to work at MVIS?

Working at MVIS is very rewarding. I have seen the company grow enormously in the 3 years that I have been here from a VMS supplier to the “go to” company for temporary ITS solutions.

What’s been the best MVIS projects you’ve worked on to date and why?

They are all rewarding in their own way. From the safety solutions we have developed along with Intellicone to the manufacture of our own trailers in the UK.

How are you finding day-to-day life at MVIS?

It’s great to work with such a close knit team who all work tirelessly with a common goal of making MVIS the biggest and best VMS and portable ITS supplier in the UK.

What recent projects have you worked on?

We have just deployed 8 signs around Tower Bridge that are automatically activated when the bridge is raised with the aim of lowering vehicle pollution.

What is the most fulfilling part of your role?

The most rewarding aspect of my job is the praise we receive from our customers and seeing the company grow from strength to strength.

What’s an average day for you?

I am very fortunate in that I don’t have an average day. It can involve anything from meeting with customers discussing designing a new solution to solve their problems to going to awards dinners for our innovation and everything in between.

MVIS: DEDICATED TO IMPROVING WORK-ZONE SAFETY IN 2014 AND BEYOND

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The average fatality rate for those maintaining the UK road network is one of the highest amongst employment sectors.  Highways Agency figures show that between 2009 and 2013, eight road workers died and 317 were injured while working on or near motorways and major A roads in England.

MVIS is dedicated to developing innovative new ITS solutions to help protect work-zone personnel, and is proud that in 2014, in partnership with Highways Resource Solutions Ltd (HRS), it launched its first collection of temporary road maintenance safety solutions.

Highways Agency statistics show that work-zone incursions are one of the most significant risks to road workers.

Road workers on BAM Morgan Sindall Joint Venture’s M62 and M1 junction 39 to 42 smart motorway project recently became the first to benefit from the safety credentials of MVIS’ and HRS’ pioneering temporary overheight detection solution.

One element of the M62 and M1 junction 39 to 42 smart motorway project involves the suspension of scaffolding beneath a bridge.  The road remains periodically open to road-users, and therefore personnel operating from the scaffolding require protection from errant oncoming high-sided vehicles.

Signs in advance of the bridge direct high-sided vehicles away from the structure.  A sensor detects incursions by errant vehicles, activating a message on a VMS, alerting drivers to their breach and enabling them to turn round and find an alternative route.  Simultaneously, an audible alarm on the scaffolding warns workers of the breach, allowing them sufficient time to reach a position of safety.

According to BMA Morgan Sindall Joint Venture stores manager, Chris Hunter, who commissioned the solution in September:  “The new solution has quickly proved its worth; within the first week, there were three incursions, all of which were quickly remedied as the drivers were instantly alerted and able to turn around to find an alternative route.”

The role of ITS in improving road worker safety is not limited to helping to tackle incursions.  New solutions are being developed by companies such as MVIS and HRS to facilitate safer work zone traffic management by fewer personnel, allowing traffic management organisations to avoid the deployment of such high numbers of road workers in these dangerous areas.

MVIS and Intellicone look forward to launching new interpretations of their work-zone safety solutions in 2015.  While the UK has a long way to go before we fulfill the Highways Agency’s Aiming for Zero road worker safety target, there is no doubt that as an industry, we are taking huge strides in the right direction.

PIONEERING OVERHEIGHT SOLUTION PROVES SMART MOTORWAY SAFETY CREDENTIALS

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Road workers on BAM Morgan Sindall Joint Venture’s M62 and M1 J39 to 42 smart motorway project have become the first to benefit from the safety credentials of a pioneering temporary overheight detection solution.

The group leased the solution from temporary intelligent transport system (ITS) solutions provider, Mobile Visual Information Systems Ltd (MVIS), soon after its launch in September by MVIS and its partner, Intellicone temporary work zone safety system creator, Highway Resource Solutions Ltd (HRS).

The overheight detection solution is part of the partners’ work-zone safety portfolio, the first temporary road maintenance safety offer combining modular electronic perimeters and variable message signs (VMS).

One element of the smart motorway project involves the suspension of scaffolding beneath a bridge. The road remains periodically open to road-users, and therefore personnel operating from the scaffolding require protection from errant oncoming high-sided vehicles.

Signs in advance of the bridge direct high-sided vehicles away from the structure. An Intellicone Sentry Beam detects errant vehicles, activating a message on MVIS’ VMS-A variable message sign, alerting drivers to their breach and enabling them to turn round and find an alternative route.

Simultaneously, an audible Intellicone Portable Site Alarm on the scaffolding warns workers of the breach, allowing them sufficient time to reach a position of safety.

While the MVIS/Intellicone temporary overheight detection solution was originally designed to protect workers from errant vehicles in temporary ground based worksites, the customer identified its potential to protect bridge personnel from high-sided road user vehicles during its smart motorway project.

Said BAM Morgan Sindall Joint Venture stores manager, Chris Hunter, who commissioned the solution in September: “Historically, BAM and Morgan Sindall have warned drivers of overhead obstructions via goalposts or “hangman” and clatterboard constructions. Neither were as effective as the MVIS/Intellicone solution at halting errant high-sided vehicles, and neither simultaneously alerted overhead personnel of safety breaches.

“The new solution has quickly proved its worth; within the first week, there were three breaches, all of which were quickly remedied as the drivers were instantly alerted and able to turn around and find an alternative route.”

Said MVIS’ managing director, Pat Musgrave, on behalf of MVIS and HRS: “We are pleased that our new temporary overheight detection solution has been so quickly embraced by the transport management market, and that it is already demonstrating its ability to promote worker safety.”

The MVIS/Intellicone temporary overheight detection solution was launched alongside the Safelane automated traffic management system, combining Intellicone products with MVIS’ VMS to facilitate safer work-zone traffic management by fewer personnel. Further applications will be launched in 2015.

MVIS works in partnership with traffic management organisations, creating for them bespoke ITS solutions. MVIS’ innovative, solar powered solutions incorporate monitoring and visual information equipment, all featuring leading-edge technology: VMS, ANPR and CCTV cameras and radar. Its VMS signs are manufactured in the UK by Bartco UK.

For further details, please visit www.m-vis.co.uk or www.intellicone.co.uk, or visit stand 69 at Seeing is Believing.

To see the overheight solution in operation, please use the following link: http://youtu.be/TV1EBkEHtAs?list=UURkMLE1UTjrnCIEzQHwYFzA

Pat Musgrave: Managing Director

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A well-known name in the ITS industry for 25 years, Pat Musgrave is certainly one of life’s entrepreneurs and is responsible for bringing industry firsts to the UK’s road and event markets. In just 12 short months, Pat has set up a sister company to MVIS, Bartco UK, launched a new partnership with Intellicone HRS, which has seen the introduction of the first temporary road maintenance safety solutions to combine industry-leading modular electronic perimeters and variable message signs,  and secured several large contracts.

How did you come to manage MVIS?

I took over from Tony Price in September 2013 to become MVIS’ managing director, while remaining managing director of P&D Specialist Services, a transport technology contractor. P&D’s union with MVIS (then Colour Mobile) started with its involvement in the deployment of almost 200 VMS units for the Olympic Route Network contract for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  It was believed to be the largest single deployment of solar powered VMS in the world.

In 2013 MVIS rebranded at the same time as launching a series of new ITS solutions, including a portable solar powered journey time solution and the Solar Intelligent Platform, the only product on the market facilitating the mounting of multiple products on a single, solar powered, mobile platform.

So, what’s been happening the past 12 months you’ve been at the MVIS helm?

We’ve got a great reputation in the industry for being innovative and we’ve certainly been living up to that over the past year. Most recently we have brought new solutions to road safety along with our new partner Highway Resource Solutions Ltd (HRS) which includes Safelane automated traffic management system and the Multisafe Smart VMS, which not only improves road worker safety but does so cost effectively. We’ll be demonstrating this at Seeing is Believing.

We’ve developed our temporary journey time solution (JTS) for long-term constant use, in partnership with Vysionics, throughout Costain’s two year installation of the smart motorway scheme between junctions 28 and 31 of the M1.

In March this year our sister company Bartco UK, Europe’s first manufacturer of portable, solar powered, five colour matrix VMS was launched alongside MVIS AUS, the new Australian division of MVIS Ltd. We’re already seeing the benefits of having our products manufactured in the UK and we’re growing at such a rate we’re now looking at new premises.

The past 12 months we’ve been instrumental in reducing accidents on UK roads with the installation of 10 VMS-Cs during A-Ones+’s northbound refurbishment of the A1 western bypass between Newcastle and Gateshead. Displays were remotely switched from speed roundels to three colour pictograms in the event of standing traffic ensuring there were zero standing-traffic related incidents during their six week installation. An identical project on the southbound carriageway in 2009 using fixed frame signs saw several such incidents.

So, that was the last 12 months, can you tell us more about the next 12?

We’ve always got new projects in the pipeline and MVIS is continually evolving. I’m excited about how MVIS will grow now we have manufacturing in the UK through sister company Bartco UK, which covers the Northern Hemisphere. We currently have  a new product in testing too, however my marketing company would shoot me if I let you know anything about that! Further MVIS/Intellicone solutions will be launched soon.

Win £50 of Amazon Vouchers by spotting an MVIS sign!

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At MVIS it’s our job to look out for you, but we wanted to give you a chance to win by looking out for us!

Spot an MVIS sign before the 19th of December, tweet in the location you saw that sign in to MVIS, or post it on our Facebook wall, with the hashtag “#mvismas” to be in with a chance of winning.

Just like this man below –

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We’ll take all the entrants names and pick at random one winner on the 22nd of December!

Please don’t do anything dangerous to find or photograph our MVIS signs, we wouldn’t want one of our CCTVs to catch you!

 Good luck! A merry #mvismas to one and all!

 

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