VPS Highway Solutions have developed what they describe as an integrated safety solution for highway maintenance personnel and road workers. The product alerts road workers to the danger of an approaching vehicle, using the latest analytic high-definition camera system mounted on self-powered VPS Smart Towers, all linked wirelessly to sounders fitted on traditional cones.
Apart from injuries, road workers suffer over one fatality every fortnight from being struck by a moving vehicle. Highways Term Maintenance Association (HTMA) this month held their Safety Forum, and heard of research that a majority of UK road users – almost 60pc – admit to driving in ways that put themselves, road workers and other road users at risk of injury or death. Highways Solutions at VPS Security Services – which offers protection of remote or empty premises, such as building sites or void property – recently won Transport technology Business of the Year at TRANSTech for its use of technologies to improve transport and mobility in the UK.
Phil Bunting is VPS’ Director responsible for the Highways Solutions team. He says: “We’re a new generation of entrepreneurs who are investing in rewriting the model for how we travel. As part of VPS’ Smartzone Safety System, integrating technologies enables us to deliver a whole raft of intelligent traffic solutions that can help improve transport and safety for everyone. The timing of this launch could not be better, following on from last week’s Road Safety Week.”
The products on offer include bi-spectrum cameras, (that are both thermal and high definition), detection analytics, the ability to include medical alerts into the sounder, with text and email alerts sent with images to site staff. VPS Group’s Chief Operating Officer Darron Cavanagh is speaking at Move 2020, the mobility exhibition in February, at London Docklands’s Excel.
