Hire Solar Intelligent Platform

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Hire Solar Intelligent Platform (IP) portable solar CCTV from MVIS for a flexible and responsive approach to your traffic or event management project. Simple and cost-effective to deploy it requires no civils or external communications.

MVIS will deliver an integrated intelligent transport system (ITS) solution that meets your specific needs using Solar IP and any combination of VMS, ANPR, CCTV, radar or contactless sensor. If things change, a Solar Intelligent Platform can be quickly and easily reconfigured.

A Solar Intelligent Platform Offers a versatile trailer-based and solar powered ‘power bank’, meaning it is portable solar CCTV. This unit can be integrated with other technologies, granting them portability.

Hire HD Data Collection Radar

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Introducing the next generation in traffic management technology: the Solar-Powered HD Data Collection Radar from MVIS. Engineered for precision, ease of use, and unparalleled reliability, this cutting-edge radar is an essential tool for comprehensive speed detection, data collection, and traffic management applications. Whether you’re overseeing a construction site, quarry, or any service area, this advanced radar system will provide you with the data you need to optimize operations and enhance safety.

The HD SmartSensor Radar is at the forefront of traffic monitoring technology, utilizing state-of-the-art systems to deliver consistently accurate and reliable data. Its high-definition capabilities enable it to collect detailed traffic information, including queue detection, journey time, and in-depth vehicle analytics. This radar system doesn’t just capture speed; it provides a holistic view of traffic patterns, giving you the insights needed to make informed decisions about your worksite or area of interest.

One of the standout features of the HD Data Collection Radar is its portability and ease of operation. Designed with the user in mind, it can be quickly deployed and set up in a variety of environments. Its solar-powered design ensures continuous operation without the need for an external power source, making it a sustainable and cost-effective solution for long-term use. The system is also highly versatile, capable of functioning in diverse conditions, ensuring you get the data you need when and where you need it.

Moreover, the data collected by the HD SmartSensor Radar is absolutely vital for understanding road user behavior and demographics. It allows you to monitor the type of vehicles entering your site, providing crucial insights into who is visiting your area and whether their presence aligns with your operational goals. This level of detailed information is invaluable for businesses looking to optimize their services, improve safety, and make data-driven decisions.

In today’s fast-paced world, having reliable, high-quality data is key to staying ahead. With MVIS’s Solar-Powered HD Data Collection Radar, you gain access to the tools needed to fully understand and manage traffic in your area. Whether you’re looking to enhance site security, improve traffic flow, or gather critical analytics, this radar system is your go-to solution. Trust in MVIS to provide you with the latest technology to keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently.

Variable Messaging Signs – Frequently Asked Questions

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Q- How are the VMS programmed?

A – The VMS are programmed remotely using our innovative WebStudio™ system which is a web based program which can be used on any Wi-Fi enabled Apple device or personal computer. You can pinpoint the different VMS units you have out on the road and change the display in an instant. Perfect if you need to relay important information to road users or event users quickly and efficiently.

Q – How long does it take to change the message on a VMS?

A – It’s almost instantaneous. Providing you have access to a computer or Wi-Fi enabled Apple device, you can change your displayed message in a matter of minutes.

Q – Can the VMS be tracked?

A – Yes all the VMS are fitted with a GPRS controller which can be tracked via WebStudio™.

Q – Can you upload a message to multiple VMS?

A – Yes. WebStudio™ allows you to group the VMS units together – no matter where they are located – to allow multiple uploads at one time.

Q – Can you upload messages to display at certain times?

A – Yes, the VMS can be scheduled on WebStudio™ to allow certain messages to appear at your requested times.

Q- Can the VMS be programmed on a smartphone?

A – Yes. The VMS can be programmed on any Wi-Fi enabled Apple smartphone or tablet via the Curbsite Lite app.

Q – Can the VMS display pictograms eg, speed roundels and traffic signs?

A – Yes. The VMS can display five different colours (amber, white, red, green and blue) and there is a wide range of pre-saved messages and signs commonly used within the motor industry which can be shared with customers.

Q – Are the VMS and Solar IPs secure when on site?

A – Yes. The VMS and Solar IPS are padlocked in all areas as standard to ensure security on site. They are GPRS enabled so we can see where they are at all times.

Q – Can the VMS be fitted with Radar?

A – Yes. The VMS can be fitted with Radar to enable speed triggered messages.

Q – Do the VMS and Solar IPs have batteries?

A – Yes. They come with solar powered batteries and the battery levels are monitored daily to ensure the products are working at all times.

Q – If I require assistance with one of the products, does MVIS offer an out of hours service?

A – Yes. MVIS offers a 24/7 service to customers. You can contact us by calling 01629 580570 and we guarantee a response within 4 hours.

If you have a question that hasn’t been answered, please don’t hesitate to get in touch on 01629 580 570 or at sales@m-vis.co.uk

 

Safety First with Overheight Integrated Solutions

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For those who work on the road, safety is their biggest concern – especially as the average fatality rate for those maintaining the UK’s road network is one of the highest amongst employment sectors.

Highways Agency statistics showed that work-zone incursions are one of the most significant risks to road workers. Between 2009 and 2013, eight road workers died and 317 were injured whilst working on or near, motorways and major A roads in England.

In response to Highways England’s (previously The Highways Agency) ‘Aiming for Zero’ campaign, and customer concern for the safety of road workers, MVIS now offers the first temporary road safety portfolio of pioneering work zone safety solutions designed to keep road workers safe.

This includes Overheight for those working at height, Safelane for those working on lane closures, and Egress for road workers at exit and entry points.

Overheight

When construction work and scaffolding are introduced onto roadside work zones, overheight workers are at an increased risk of injury from high sided vehicle collisions.

Our Overheight solutions features an Intellicone Sentry Beam – a contactless sensor – which can detect movement in ‘no go areas’ from vehicles over a certain height which would possess danger to the workers should the vehicle continue.

This movement then activates a warning to alert both the driver and the workers. A message alerting drivers to their breach is displayed on a VMS unit, enabling them to turn around and find an alternative route.

Simultaneously, an audible Intellicone Portable Site Alarm sounds to alert the workers, giving them sufficient time to move out of the perceived danger area and into a position of safety.

The Sentry Beam has a line of sight for 50 metres and communicates wirelessly with an Intellicone Traffic Management Unit (TMU) controller which is fitted to a VMS. The user can control the TMU to determine how long the messages are displayed on the sign, and can also override the system to change messages should this be required.

This solution offers road workers and those working overheight, a much greater level of safety. If you would like to find out more, please get in touch at sales@m-vis.co.uk.

Spotlight on the Solar Intelligent Platform

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One of the biggest challenges with traffic management is how flexible you need to be. You need to be responsive to quick changes and as such, so do the products you use.

MVIS’ Solar Intelligent Platform is an innovative product which offers a great deal of flexibility to its user. It can be easily combined with a variety of our temporary intelligent traffic systems equipment, including the ANPR camera, CCTV and radar to offer you the right solution for your project.

It’s mobile, which means it can be easily transported from one location to another requiring no civil engineering or third party communications, offering greater flexibility when managing your project.

The Solar IP does not require an external energy supply so is environmentally friendly. It comes with a 12V, 24V or 48V battery and is recharged using the new 250W solar PV panels. These are designed to optimise ultraviolet light so is environmentally friendly too.

If you would like more information on the cost-effective Solar IP, please get in touch with us on 01629 580570.

How the Solar Intelligent Platform is leading the way in ITS

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In situations that require a combination of temporary intelligent traffic systems, MVIS Solar Intelligent Platform delivers unrivalled flexibility.

This innovative mobile product allows the user to select their preferred combination of any number of items from MVIS’ portfolio of ANPR, CCTV, and radar, with the confidence that the will all work seamlessly with the Solar Intelligent Platform. Further versatility and customization is added by the potential to easily alter the equipment housed in the platform to best meet the user’s needs.

With cutting-edge 250W solar PV panels specifically designed to optimize UV light the system can incorporate a 12V, 24V or 48V battery. This leading technology creates a comprehensive system that does not depend on an external power supply and is also silent in operation.

Its negligible environmental effects, its reliability and its ease to deploy make the Solar Intelligent Platform a perfectly suited option to a large variety of traffic and event management applications.

The lowdown on MVIS Web Studio

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As the world readies itself for smart cities, controlled and governed by centralised networks, MVIS is already putting that power at your fingertips with our Web Studio. This unique sign management system is incorporated into our VMS systems, offering an unprecedented level of control and responsiveness.

Web studio means that traffic can be notified of developing situations from any WiFi enabled device, whether it’s a laptop, smart phone or tablet.

The user is provided with a detailed interactive map of their whole connected system. From there it’s possible to zoom in individually and closely observe the operation of each sign, or to take a further overview and adjust signs as necessary in groups.

Also enabled is the monitoring of radar devices, designed to help with data capture or alleviate traffic congestion. The speed can be set and changed remotely, or even scheduled in advance.

If you have a large number of signs to manage, with the potential for quick changes of situation, Web Studio’s centralized control is essential for you. It’s why police forces, local authorities and traffic agencies continue to work with MVIS and with Web Studio that flexibility is never more than a click away.

Why the MVIS Portable CCTV is right for you.

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When you need to guarantee road safety and speed enforcement our CCTV platform offers all the features to make it a perfect solution. Mounted on a mast, the PTZ CCTV system achieves outstanding video performance while still being removed from immediate environmental danger or physical abuse.

Its portability and easy-use makes the CCTV system a versatile and reliable solution, especially in roadwork zones and school zones, where road safety is absolutely paramount. Operable in both day time and night time conditions the Portable CCTV system boats an impressive minimum illumination as low as 0.0004 lux in night mode. With an array of optical encoders the camera guarantees consistently accurate positioning and repeatability as well as an impressive 10x optical zoom.

For more specialist uses an optional heater will keep the Portable CCTV system functioning in temperatures as low as -40C and its durability is further extended with its toughened glass window. The model is also vandal resistant, offering you complete peace of mind wherever it’s placed.

Mounted on MVIS’ Solar Intelligent Platform the Portable CCTV offers the flexibility and versatility present across our entire range and its ease of deployment means you’ll have it up and running in no time. Solar panels save on power consumption costs and also offer an innovative, ecologically friendly solution to any traffic management application.

Journey Time Solution first from MVIS

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Leading temporary intelligent transport system (ITS) solutions provider, Mobile Visual Information Systems Ltd (MVIS), has made its first temporary journey time solution (JTS) sale for long-term constant use on a smart motorway protect.

In partnership with traffic management specialist Vysionics, MVIS developed a temporary JTS for continuous operation throughout the two year installation of the smart motorway scheme between junctions 28 and 31 of the M1.

At an estimated cost of between £168m and £225m, the installation by international engineering and construction group, Costain, began in October 2013, and has an expected completion date of autumn 2015.

The temporary JTS was required in order to enhance the experience of 170,000 road users across both carriageways every day for the project’s entire duration, as they negotiate the roadworks involved in the transition of the section into a smart motorway, minimising journey disruption and promoting safety.

MVIS sold to Costain eight of its VMS-C signs to communicate with Vysionics’ own Vector integrated ANPR cameras via MVIS’ Web Studio web-based sign management and control system, providing real time journey information to drivers at strategic points along the route.

The cameras send vehicle number plate data back to a remote server which calculates journey times, and the average journey time is relayed to MVIS’ signs throughout the works. In this way, drivers are enabled to plan alternative routes as appropriate.

When necessary, control centre operators can override the default journey time information display with additional driver information, for example regarding incidents ahead, thereby negating the need for additional signs.

This is the second time that MVIS has worked in partnership with Vysionics on a temporary JTS for application during a smart motorway transition.  In 2012, the companies delivered a solution for use during the M4/5 managed motorway installation.

Last year, MVIS launched its own JTS in response to interest from a leading infrastructure services supplier. The package comprises a VMS-A, two Vysionics Vector ANPR cameras, MVIS’ web Studio sign management software and two MVIS Solar IP multi-use trailers.

Said Costain’s senior agent for traffic management, Howard Dukes:  “MVIS is establishing a name as a leader in temporary JTS, and the M1 solution is a reliable means of providing drivers with the information they need in order to negotiate roadworks safely and with minimum delay.”

Added MVIS’ sales manager, Graeme Lee:  “This is the first time that we have sold our signs for long-term, constant use within a JTS solution on a smart motorway scheme, and we are tremendously proud to be playing such an important role in this significant project.”

MVIS is part of the P&D (Holdings Company) group, membership of which ensures MVIS’ customers benefit from a wide pool of ITS expertise and resource.  Its ITS solutions incorporate a comprehensive range of products, including CCTV, radar, VMS, ANPR and Web Studio.

Flexible combination of systems with the Solar Intelligent Platform (IP)

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One of the newest products on offer at MVIS, the Solar Intelligent Platform (IP) is a highly innovative, mobile product. It allows for the flexible combination of many different intelligent traffic systems equipment and event management solutions, so that users can build a solution that is perfectly tailored to their needs.

With the Solar IP, the customer can create a combination of items from our portfolio of products, including the Vector Integrated ANPR Camera, Portable CCTV and Radar, which can all be accommodated onto the Solar IP. The combination of products integrated in the platform can be easily changed to meet any changes to client requirements.

Using the latest in solar charging systems, the Solar IP can accommodate a 12V, 24V or 48V battery into the solution, as well as new 250W solar PV panels that are designed to optimise ultraviolet light in northern hemisphere locations.

With its environmentally friendly design, the Solar IP does not need to rely on external energy supply.

If you would like to speak with us about our Solar IP, please send us an email or call us on 01629 580 570.

An innovative Journey Time Solution

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For this week’s feature, we thought we’d take some time to feature another new product; the Journey Time Solution (JTS).

The JTS incorporates cutting-edge software and hardware into its system, giving users a comprehensive, affordable solution for all short-term road works projects.

This innovative traffic solution was developed in response to interest from a leading infrastructure services supplier, which serves to reflect our dedication to developing new technologies and solutions in partnership with both public and private sector traffic management organisations.

Its portable design ensures that it can be quickly and easily installed at the required location, getting rid of the need for any civil engineering or external power provision. In addition to this, it enables road users to make informed decisions on how best to minimise the affects of journey disruption. It does this by allowing the user to programme it so that tic an warn road users of delays or the extent of their severity, helping drivers to make an informed decision as to whether it would be more effective to take a different route.

The JTS incorporates the VMS-A, two Vysonics’ Vector integrated ANPR cameras, our Web Studio software and two of our Solar Intelligent Platforms (IP).

The VMS-A and one of the Solar IP’s are placed at the entry to the road works, whilst the other Solar IP is positioned in advance of an exit route. The ANPR Vector cameras gather information and transmit it via a cloud server. The Web Studio is used to display this information on the sign, which gives road users all of the available information and allows them to decide whether they should endure the road works or utilise the exit.

If you would like to talk to us about our Journey Time Solution, please send us an email through our contact page or call us on 01629 580 570.

Spotlight on the VMS-C

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In this blog we will be shining a light on our VMS-C sign, one of the most vital components in our product range.

The VMS-C is a five colour matrix sign that provides white, blue, red, green and yellow as standard, which offers complete flexibility for advertising and displays.

Ideal for roads where speeds are greater than 60mph, it has a fully autonomous solar charging system that operates constantly under normal conditions. The signs unmatched technology is housed by a single plug and play controller and comes with a number of additional features that cannot be found in any other VMS.

The VMS-C can be easily programmed through mobile SMS, direct serial connection, using a GSM modem or even our new, live web based interface. In addition, all energy saving LED modules incorporated into the machine can be interchanged quickly and easily.

As well as being eco friendly and mobile, the VMS-C is also highly durable, offering sustained functionality during even the most adverse conditions. It’s fantastic versatility is also highlighted by the fact that all colours can be quickly and easily interchanged to create the perfect affect for any advertisement or road update.

If you would like to get in touch with us about this competitively industry leading technology, please send us an email or call us on 01629 580 570.

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