Letter from Bryan Mulligan...
 Welcome to Intelligent News. I hope that you find these articles interesting and sometimes entertaining. On the panel to the right, you’ll see that Intelligent Devices is now on Facebook and Twitter. The openness and immediacy of Web 2.0 takes some getting used to by the older members of our company (myself included!) but is proving to be the way of the new world. Sign up and explore these new technologies with us. It’s going to be an exciting ride…
The NTCIP Joint Committee met in Chicago in June and had a well attended turn out. It is interesting to see the NTCIP community mature from a focus on developing data dictionaries, which took an enormous effort over a number of years, to a wider view on the implementation of the standards and to the wider issues relating to managing and maintaining a major standards family.
Those who follow Intelligent Devices will know that we have been pioneering the use of Intelligent Parking technologies as a new area of ITS. Our flagship implementation, at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport (with 12,000 individually monitored parking spaces), has been the subject of a Case Study report which has been blessed by the client, the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA). In fact, this customer was so pleased with the system that they took advertisements in the Johannesburg newspaper to publicize the fact.
ITS standards are making progress around the world. More and more client agencies, integrators, and manufacturers are seeing the advantages of interchangeability and interoperability. As the markets mature the standards become an agent for acceleration (deploy system quicker), cost reduction (deploy systems at lower cost) and innovation (smarter applications with standard interfaces). Brazil has seen the benefits to this and their Federal Authorities have required the standards on their public roads…
Enjoy this copy of Intelligent News. Until next time…
Regards
Bryan Mulligan
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