Category: Blog

How preemption systems keep firefighters and the public safe

Fire departments are continuously looking at ways to deliver emergency services more efficiently. In the past, the best solution for decreasing response time was to increase the number of fire stations and strategically locate them across the city. This entails building new stations, hiring more firefighters, and purchasing new equipment.

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Upgrading a preemption system from Optic to GPS

First-generation traffic preemption systems were primarily designed as optical-style systems. These solutions rely on sensors at each intersection being triggered by strobe light emitters on emergency and transit vehicles. While these initial types of installations were a step in the right direction, they offered little flexibility and came with a

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Essentials for low friction delivery and maintenance of school beacons

Technology has played an integral part in the advancements that have been made in the transportation industry. While these improvements and efficiencies have brought about progress, they have not necessarily been easy to deliver and maintain. School beacons are a classic example of technology that requires a labor-intensive installation and

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How to future proof your transportation technology

One topic that always generates a lot of interest among city and municipal leaders is technology and how to use it to gain the best benefit. Too often a new system or technology is purchased, implemented, and within 24 months it’s already out of date. Unfortunately, when applications or devices

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Gwinnett County Awarded ITS GA Innovation Project

Gwinnett County was awarded the ITS GA 2016 Innovation for Outside the Box Award. This award was presented to Gwinnett County Department of Transportation for the Glance School Zone Flashing Beacons System. Their Implementation of the Glance School Zone Flashing Beacon Systems, giving their agency a simple-to-use, secure interface to remotely

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Rapid school beacon deployment in Gwinnett County, Georgia

Applied Information, with our south east channel partner Temple, Inc., were selected to provide 270 school beacons to upgrade Gwinnett County, GA to the latest connected technology.  The procurement process took longer than Gwinnett had hoped, and the instruction to proceed was received on June 30, 2016. Applied information and

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Electric, Autonomous and Connected Vehicles

An engineering perspective after thousands of miles on Tesla’s Autopilot In the software business there is an expression “eating your own dog food” where a company uses technology internally, to test it out, before releasing the technology to the customer. In support of this idea, Applied Information acquired the latest

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Career Opportunity – Technology Application Engineer

What We Do Applied Information is a technology company headquartered in Suwanee, GA. We make field devices for a variety of traffic applications and use wireless telematics, cloud computing, and web software to turn Data into Information for our customers. Job Duties You would primarily be responsible for providing application

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Bryan Mulligan Presenting at ITS America

Come and listen to Bryan Mulligan present at ITS America in San Jose on: Surface Transportation Moves into the World of the Internet of Things and Data-Driven Decision Making – a Practical Guide to Getting There Bryan will be presenting on: Tuesday, June 14th 2:15 – 3:15 PM   Data…It’s All There

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