November 2014 - MVIS Ltd

PIONEERING OVERHEIGHT SOLUTION PROVES SMART MOTORWAY SAFETY CREDENTIALS

Posted on 27th November 2014 at 1:03 pm.

Road workers on BAM Morgan Sindall Joint Venture’s M62 and M1 J39 to 42 smart motorway project have become the first to benefit from the safety credentials of a pioneering temporary overheight detection solution.

The group leased the solution from temporary intelligent transport system (ITS) solutions provider, Mobile Visual Information Systems Ltd (MVIS), soon after its launch in September by MVIS and its partner, Intellicone temporary work zone safety system creator, Highway Resource Solutions Ltd (HRS).

The overheight detection solution is part of the partners’ work-zone safety portfolio, the first temporary road maintenance safety offer combining modular electronic perimeters and variable message signs (VMS).

One element of the smart motorway project involves the suspension of scaffolding beneath a bridge. The road remains periodically open to road-users, and therefore personnel operating from the scaffolding require protection from errant oncoming high-sided vehicles.

Signs in advance of the bridge direct high-sided vehicles away from the structure. An Intellicone Sentry Beam detects errant vehicles, activating a message on MVIS’ VMS-A variable message sign, alerting drivers to their breach and enabling them to turn round and find an alternative route.

Simultaneously, an audible Intellicone Portable Site Alarm on the scaffolding warns workers of the breach, allowing them sufficient time to reach a position of safety.

While the MVIS/Intellicone temporary overheight detection solution was originally designed to protect workers from errant vehicles in temporary ground based worksites, the customer identified its potential to protect bridge personnel from high-sided road user vehicles during its smart motorway project.

Said BAM Morgan Sindall Joint Venture stores manager, Chris Hunter, who commissioned the solution in September: “Historically, BAM and Morgan Sindall have warned drivers of overhead obstructions via goalposts or “hangman” and clatterboard constructions. Neither were as effective as the MVIS/Intellicone solution at halting errant high-sided vehicles, and neither simultaneously alerted overhead personnel of safety breaches.

“The new solution has quickly proved its worth; within the first week, there were three breaches, all of which were quickly remedied as the drivers were instantly alerted and able to turn around and find an alternative route.”

Said MVIS’ managing director, Pat Musgrave, on behalf of MVIS and HRS: “We are pleased that our new temporary overheight detection solution has been so quickly embraced by the transport management market, and that it is already demonstrating its ability to promote worker safety.”

The MVIS/Intellicone temporary overheight detection solution was launched alongside the Safelane automated traffic management system, combining Intellicone products with MVIS’ VMS to facilitate safer work-zone traffic management by fewer personnel. Further applications will be launched in 2015.

MVIS works in partnership with traffic management organisations, creating for them bespoke ITS solutions. MVIS’ innovative, solar powered solutions incorporate monitoring and visual information equipment, all featuring leading-edge technology: VMS, ANPR and CCTV cameras and radar. Its VMS signs are manufactured in the UK by Bartco UK.

For further details, please visit www.m-vis.co.uk or www.intellicone.co.uk, or visit stand 69 at Seeing is Believing.

To see the overheight solution in operation, please use the following link: http://youtu.be/TV1EBkEHtAs?list=UURkMLE1UTjrnCIEzQHwYFzA

Pat Musgrave: Managing Director

Posted on 19th November 2014 at 2:25 pm.

Written by Ben Kettell

A well-known name in the ITS industry for 25 years, Pat Musgrave is certainly one of life’s entrepreneurs and is responsible for bringing industry firsts to the UK’s road and event markets. In just 12 short months, Pat has set up a sister company to MVIS, Bartco UK, launched a new partnership with Intellicone HRS, which has seen the introduction of the first temporary road maintenance safety solutions to combine industry-leading modular electronic perimeters and variable message signs, and secured several large contracts.

How did you come to manage MVIS?

I took over from Tony Price in September 2013 to become MVIS’ managing director, while remaining managing director of P&D Specialist Services, a transport technology contractor. P&D’s union with MVIS (then Colour Mobile) started with its involvement in the deployment of almost 200 VMS units for the Olympic Route Network contract for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was believed to be the largest single deployment of solar powered VMS in the world.

In 2013 MVIS rebranded at the same time as launching a series of new ITS solutions, including a portable solar powered journey time solution and the Solar Intelligent Platform, the only product on the market facilitating the mounting of multiple products on a single, solar powered, mobile platform.

So, what’s been happening the past 12 months you’ve been at the MVIS helm?

We’ve got a great reputation in the industry for being innovative and we’ve certainly been living up to that over the past year. Most recently we have brought new solutions to road safety along with our new partner Highway Resource Solutions Ltd (HRS) which includes Safelane automated traffic management system and the Multisafe Smart VMS, which not only improves road worker safety but does so cost effectively. We’ll be demonstrating this at Seeing is Believing.

We’ve developed our temporary journey time solution (JTS) for long-term constant use, in partnership with Vysionics, throughout Costain’s two year installation of the smart motorway scheme between junctions 28 and 31 of the M1.

In March this year our sister company Bartco UK, Europe’s first manufacturer of portable, solar powered, five colour matrix VMS was launched alongside MVIS AUS, the new Australian division of MVIS Ltd. We’re already seeing the benefits of having our products manufactured in the UK and we’re growing at such a rate we’re now looking at new premises.

The past 12 months we’ve been instrumental in reducing accidents on UK roads with the installation of 10 VMS-Cs during A-Ones+’s northbound refurbishment of the A1 western bypass between Newcastle and Gateshead. Displays were remotely switched from speed roundels to three colour pictograms in the event of standing traffic ensuring there were zero standing-traffic related incidents during their six week installation. An identical project on the southbound carriageway in 2009 using fixed frame signs saw several such incidents.

So, that was the last 12 months, can you tell us more about the next 12?

We’ve always got new projects in the pipeline and MVIS is continually evolving. I’m excited about how MVIS will grow now we have manufacturing in the UK through sister company Bartco UK, which covers the Northern Hemisphere. We currently have a new product in testing too, however my marketing company would shoot me if I let you know anything about that! Further MVIS/Intellicone solutions will be launched soon.

Win £50 of Amazon Vouchers by spotting an MVIS sign!

Posted on 6th November 2014 at 5:07 pm.

Written by Ben Kettell

At MVIS it’s our job to look out for you, but we wanted to give you a chance to win by looking out for us!

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Please don’t do anything dangerous to find or photograph our MVIS signs, we wouldn’t want one of our CCTVs to catch you!

Good luck! A merry #mvismas to one and all!

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