ASNS - Actelis Receives Order For City of Napa Intelligent Traffic Management System | Benzinga
FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Actelis Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASNS) ("Actelis" or the "Company"), a market leader in cyber-hardened, rapid deployment networking solutions for IoT applications, today announced that its hybrid-fiber connectivity solution has been recently deployed at traffic intersections throughout the City of Napa, California. Actelis' local partner, Econolite, ordered and installed the solution, completing an Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) upgrade project at some of the busiest intersections in the city.
The City of Napa is the cultural center of California wine country, and its vibrant downtown is home to many local restaurants, wine tasting rooms, boutiques, and public art installments. Like many popular destinations where there is a strong combination of drivers, bikers, and pedestrians, Napa is very concerned with traffic safety. In September 2022, City Council adopted Napa's Local Roadway Safety Plan (LRSP) which created a framework to systematically identify and analyze traffic safety related issues and recommend projects and countermeasures. Two key elements of the LRSP are:
- It is a data-driven safety plan, so the collection of data is ultra-important.
- Improvements to the city's traffic signal timing (e.g. the coordination of the length of red, yellow, and green lights) needed to occur.
Sitting inside the city's traffic cabinets, the newly installed Actelis hybrid-fiber switches provide fiber-grade connectivity to the intersection, transporting critical traffic related information back to the city's traffic operations center. In order to reduce the number of collisions, traffic signal patterns can ...