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Blue-Band Bluetooth-Detecting Traffic Devices to be Tested in Lake Mary

By News 13 FloridaSeminole County
PUBLISHED August 7, 2017 @11:05 PM

Some rectangular-shaped devices recently popped up on Lake Mary Boulevard at the entrance to Seminole State College.

  • Devices designed to track traffic efficiencies 
  • Sanford-based Blue-Band designed the devices
  • FDOT will first test them near Lake Mary Boulevard

The Florida Department of Transportation will be testing the wireless devices for possible use in making traffic improvements throughout the state.

Carlo Adair said he’s always dreamed of ways to advance technology.

“I grew up on the Jetsons thinking there would be some really cool things coming in our future — and there are,” said Adair, who is the lead engineer for Blue-Band, LLC.

Adair and Blue-Band CEO Kevin Yorke designed the new traffic devices at their Sanford-based office. The Florida Department of Transportation is now going to test them at the busy Lake Mary intersection.

“It’s a large intersection with a lot of traffic,” Yorke said.

FDOT could eventually use them to collect traffic data all over the state.

“It’s definitely very exciting,” Adair said.

The devices can even detect a car’s Bluetooth as it drives over them and then use that signal to track how long it takes for that car to get to the next intersection.

“We know no particulars about the vehicle or who has the Bluetooth, we just assign a number for one location to the next,” Yorke said.

Spotlight synchronization, traffic flow and traffic volume is already measured by different devices in operation throughout Central Florida. But the wireless detectors don’t require wires or pipes to install them, making them cheaper. They also report data in real-time.

Adair hopes it’s just the beginning of a more advanced way to help people get around more efficiently.

“What we’re establishing is the groundwork for smart cities — the ability to intelligently manage our entire transit system,” Adair said.

The detectors are about 1 inch tall, which is similar to road reflectors. Yorke said that if needed, they can be built about 1 inch into the pavement. That would make them flush with the surface of the roadway.

Seminole County traffic planners said the new devices were installed in late July and a 30-day testing period for them should soon begin.

 

Florida DOT Approves Blue-Band’s State of the Art, Solar Wireless Bluetooth Traffic Detection Device

Leveraging today’s technology to shape the smart cities of tomorrow.

Central Florida based green, high-tech company BLUE-BAND, LLC is proud to announce that the Florida DOT’s Traffic Engineering Research Lab (TERL) has approved their Multi-Use Intelligent Detection Suite.  The company specializes in offering a solution to the needs of the government agencies to make the roadways efficient and safe. Managing the rapid expansion of urban areas is a daunting task for transportation professionals because the systems, for a variety of reasons, cannot satisfy the numerous requirements of urban mobility, as a result of this; it becomes a necessity to find creative ways to do more with less. In an attempt to provide the perfect solution to the roadways problems, BLUE-BAND introduces their cost-efficient way for transportation managers and staff to transform the transportation industry.

While talking about the company, Kevin Yorke, the Chief Executive Officer of BLUE-BAND, LLC. said “BLUE-BAND’S technology suite helps make our infrastructure smarter, safer, and more efficient while reducing the cost of ownership and maintenance to accelerate the deployment of an intelligent transportation infrastructure that turns our roadways into “smart-ways”.  “With BLUE-BAND’s smart devices, transporters will enjoy reduced travel times, increased gas savings, and safer roads that lead to the traveling public getting the best possible travel experience”. He added.

BLUE-BAND’S green devices are powerful, advanced, and unique.which makes them perfect to enable smarter intersections, freeways, and parking in a single system. Their devices provide cost-effective solutions for  Smart City initiatives by combining Bluetooth, vehicle detection, and renewable state-of-the-art independent power system technologies. They have developed a line of products and applications that achieves the real-time monitoring and processing of traffic (pedestrian or vehicular) while simultaneously disseminating traffic information to Bluetooth enabled device users.

The greater advantage of using BLUE-BAND devices is their ability to leverage a large existing infrastructure of Bluetooth enabled devices simultaneously while offering accurate per-vehicle detection in a single hardware unit leveraging renewable energy for long-lasting sustainable power. BLUE­BAND has a patented system that is designed in both multi-purpose and modular.  They understand the effectiveness of Bluetooth wireless technology which equips them to offer a suite of products and services that continually adapt to technological advances in the traffic industry.

For more information please visit https://fdotwp1.dot.state.fl.us/ApprovedProductList/Products/Index/5220

ABOUT BLUE-BAND, LLC

BLUE-BAND, LLC is a green, high-tech Company that is both MBE and DBE certified based in Central Florida. The company was Founded by experienced transportation specialists, Kevin Yorke, and Carlo Adair, P.E; they created the first of its kind technology that adds intelligence directly into the pavement. Their passion for innovation and their dedication to their mission to “deploy technology that will catapult Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) into the future” is what makes Blue-Band strive to be the next generation of transportation management.

ABOUT THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (FDOT)

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT or Department) is an executive agency, which means it reports directly to the Governor. FDOT’s primary statutory responsibility is to coordinate the planning and development of a safe, viable, and balanced state transportation system serving all regions of the state, and to assure the compatibility of all components, including multimodal facilities.

Corporate Information 

Blue-Band, LLC
Kevin Yorke – Chief Executive Officer
WWW.BLUE-BAND.NET
[email protected]
Office:877-577-7572 ext:700
Mobile:386-631-5830

Sales Information

[email protected]
1-877-577-5272

Commercial & Parking Sales

Eco Partnering Innovations, LLC
Stephanie D. Hoback – Principal/Owner
www.ecopartnering.com
[email protected]
Office:  407-377-7540
Mobile:  407-756-9083

Blue-Band Teams With Eco Partnering Innovations To Develop Real-Time Data Structure For Connected Vehicles

http://www.abnewswire.com/pressreleases/eco-partnering-innovations-teams-with-blueband-to-develop-realtime-data-structure-for-connected-vehicles_285303.html

Two Florida-based private-sector players in the intelligent transportation field have teamed up to create solutions for government agencies that will help them stay ahead of the data explosion that connected, autonomous vehicles will create.

Blue-Band, LLC of Sanford, a green, DBE Smart City Technology manufacturer is partnering with Eco Partnering Innovations, LLC of Seminole County, a woman-owned business to pave the way for the transformation of the transportation industry.

Eco Partnering Innovations (EPI) specializes in various Smart City Technologies used in intelligent transportation, traffic, tolling, and smart parking systems. EPI is also the master distributor of a versatile, robust, enterprise level software, the Field Asset Management System, or FAMS. It’s a user-based, scalable Software as a Service, cloud system that allows transportation professionals to simplify their processes, save money, improve performance, collaborate with others, and access accurate management data.

FAMS developers recently integrated the Blue-Band system. The two are a perfect fit, with Blue-Band’s extensive smart city suite that offers data collection solutions, traffic signal actuation, Smart Parking, Travel Time (O&D) reporting, Intelligent Transportation Systems data collection, and storage. The Blue-Band system provides solutions for applications such as freight movement, traffic control, parking space availability reporting, parking enforcement, access control, gate control, facility vehicle capacity tracking, vehicular metrics, statistics, and even tolling applications.  Blue-Band has developed a product suite that makes it an attractive value proposition to enhance communication between the traveling public and the end-users for a more personalized communication experience.

Their solutions are geared toward the “vehicle-to-everything” (V2X) and integrated asset management, augmenting the collaborations between cities, contractors, engineers, and manufacturers to find practical ways of integrating the next generation of technology that will advance the public and private sector’s mobility.

#V2X #ECOPARTNERING #BLUEBAND

Editors: For more information –

Eco Partnering Innovations, LLC, Stephanie D. Hoback – Principal/Owner [email protected] or office:  407-377-7540, mobile:  407-756-9083

Blue-Band, LLC, Kevin Yorke – Chief Executive Officer

[email protected], or 877-577-7572 ext: 700

Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy Visits Blue-Band & Eco Partnering Innovations to Discuss Autonomous Vehicle Legislation

Blue-Band welcomed a visit from US Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy in Mid-August along with Eco Partnering Innovations (EPI) & Quality Manufacturing, Seminole County-based Smart City Mobility Solution partners, to discuss Autonomous Vehicle Legislation.

U.S. Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy proudly represents Florida’s Seventh Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes all of Seminole County and much of northern Orange County, including downtown Orlando, Maitland, Winter Park, and the University of Central Florida.

Thank you, Congresswoman Murphy and the Seminole State College Center for Business Development & Florida SBDC, for your time and dedication to local small businesses.