Barco's iTraffic is currently the most advanced visualization solution for traffic monitoring and control. iTraffic provides a Traffic Management Center with the ability to fully integrate visualization sub-systems into their Traffic Management Systems to allow for flexible display solutions, enhanced performance and quality, cost and space savings, and external management of the visualization sub-system by higher level Traffic Management Systems via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Physically, iTraffic consists of a range of high-quality displays, Barco’s display controller series and wall management software.
Flexible display solutions
Multiple rear-screen projection modules or LCD flat panel displays can be combined into a display wall of any size. Various screen sizes and resolutions are available to allow iTraffic to tailor its display solutions to the application requirements – in particular to the amount of information that needs to be displayed simultaneously, and the size of the control center.
Dedicated integrated hardware processing for enhanced performance for any type of content
The latest generation of Barco’s graphic controllers (Hydra, TransForm A) allow for virtually unlimited integration of data and video sources into one comprehensive overview taking into account specific requirements of size, video density and user interaction. As opposed to software-based visualization solutions, the hardware processing provides the user with increased capacity, better performance and quality. For example, in standard software decoding of MPEG-2 streams, the user may only view a handful of full resolution (720x480 D1) images at full frame rate simultaneously while the iTraffic solution with integrated streaming decoders can view up to 64 images on a single display with one controller. iTraffic offers different controllers that have different capacities. Therefore, depending on configuration of displays and mix of inputs types, the users can configure their systems to have different capacities that best suit their needs and cost requirements. All controllers can support various inputs directly (RGB, SDI, HD-SDI, Composite Video, S-Video, Panellink).
Digital migration ready
Barco’s iTraffic features a universal decoder solution that provides an integrated solution thus increasing cost-efficiency as well as facilitating the transition from analog to digital.
With iTraffic, the user
- can replace analog video input cards with digital input cards
- can support analog and digital signals simultaneously in the same controller.
The universal decoder is interoperable in MPEG-2 and 4 over Ethernet (IP) (updated list of encoder manufacturers, with which interoperability has been tested).
The integrated universal streaming decoders can provide the customer with the following value added savings
| Category |
Savings |
| Equipment (in $ costs per channel) |
34% to 59% |
| Space in Rack Units |
7 RU to 48 RU |
| Labor (in $ cost) |
up to 86% |
| Inventory Levels (in $ cost) |
12% to 59% |
