ITS Plus
Safety - Sensors - Security
Typical Installation
While we continuously strive modify and improve on the ITS Plus family of products, our products have
been installed with terrific results at signalized traffic intersections maintained by City, County, and/or State DOT organizations
around the United States since 2003. Feel free to contact for references in your area.
Any installation (mast arm or span
wire) is fast and easy. This installation was for video detection and utilized an ITS Plus Universal External Camera (UEC) mounted
on the outside of an LED signal housing. (Installation photos in clockwise order)
Once the ITS Plus camera was mounted to the
signal housing, and signal put into position in the intersection, the engineer only had to feed the electrical power to the unit,
adjust the camera viewing area using the ITS Plus miniature video monitor and then return to the control cabinet where he drew the
sensor block for their video stop bar dection on the screen (with a PC mouse) where the vehicle presence was to be recognized.The last photo has the ITS Plus video camera functioning in position.
ITS Plus, Inc.
6220
Trailwood Drive, Plano, Texas 75024 Tel: 214-755-8169 Fax: 972-370-2440
System Withstands a Tornado! No realignment required after direct hit!
Even the recent F-4 and an F-5 tornados
in Greeley, Colorado on May 22, 2008 did not shake the ITS Plus video detection cameras out of alignment. These video cameras were
part of the ITS Plus Sensor Platform and Camera Option installed to provide video stop bar detection (which eliminates the need for
loops in the road and enables lights to turn green from side roads when vehicles approach an intersection).
The ITSP-120C models
(color daylight and black and white low light) withstood winds up to 200 miles per hour as the storm cut a 35 mile path of destruction.
These cameras were mounted on traffic signal heads at an intersection near the CDOT Region 4 Signal Shop in Greeley. The installation
used in Greeley was the ITS Plus Universal External Camera (UEC) camera brackets. Remarkably, the cameras continued to transmit its
images without failure during the storm and did not require any realignment after the storm.
Jim Thrush, Transportation Traffic
Supervisor at the Colorado Department of Transportation stated that the tornado completely destroyed their Signal Shop during the
storm yet did not disrupt the ITS Plus cameras. The DOT was lucky that none of their staff were hurt at the facility as everyone was
out working. The Greeley storm was accompanied by baseball sized hail and The Denver Post reported 60+ homes damaged, one person dead
and several injured.
Ken Balltrip, Traffic Signal Supervisor for the City of Greeley also report no problems with his ITS Plus Cameras during the high
winds. In particular Ken noted the cameras performed well during last years ice a snow storms.
To date, the ITS Plus Sensor
Platforms with Camera Options have gone through a Level 3 hurricane in Houston, TX on a span wire intersection with no camera realignment
required. The ITS Plus cameras have also gone through countless thunderstorms with hail up to several inches as well as snow storms
and ice storms during the winter.
The ITS Plus Sensor Platform system is designed to require almost no cleaning of the lens,
and is impervious to being knocked out of alignment in high winds (due to the gimbal being located inside the unit, not outside).
It is also much less susceptible to lightning (due to how the camera is mounted, the materials used in the product and very high surge
protection). The Sensor Platform and cameras may be installed in a variety of configurations including inside a traffic signal head,
on an external mount (UEC), separately on a pole mount, and even on span wire.
Photo Credits: Top, KUSA TV Channel 9 inDenver. Bottom, The Denver Post.