INRIX Delivers Real-Time Access to 10,000 Traffic Cameras Across U.S., Canada and U.K.
Written by INRIX
Thursday, 09 April 2009
INRIX Connected Services makes it easy for customers to integrate
traffic camera images with Web, mobile and other location-based services
KIRKLAND, Wash., April 6 -- INRIX(R), the leading provider of traffic information, today announced immediate availability of the largest, most accurate and most advanced database of fully geo-coded traffic cameras available. INRIX is now the exclusive commercial licensor of traffic camera information from Vizzion, a leading developer of traffic camera data services. INRIX Connected Services now delivers real-time access to 10,000 traffic cameras in over 100 markets across nearly every major city in the US, Canada, UK, and New Zealand.
Expanding upon INRIX's extensive suite of real-time traffic flow services and other in-car connected services content, images from traffic cameras can be sent to mobile phones, displayed on a Web page, or viewed on a connected navigation device. INRIX Connected Services provides a suite of application programming interfaces (APIs) making integration of traffic cameras by Web portals, mobile application publishers, navigation developers and broadcast media easy and reliable.
"Our new service provides instant access to double the number of traffic cameras available anywhere," said Kush Parikh, vice president of business development, INRIX. "INRIX Connected Services continues to deliver best-in-class traffic flow, incident, traffic camera, routing and other in-car services."
INRIX uses advanced automated systems to continuously evaluate the integrity of the camera data, which when coupled with our dynamic image quality checks, enables us to offer unrivaled accuracy. Additionally, INRIX provides exceptional server performance leveraging its state-of-the-art data center with intelligent caching to offload the burden from local authority image feeds and onto our network of servers. Image retrieval times are normally less than one second.
Additional details on licensing the traffic camera services are available directly from INRIX at www.inrix.com.
About INRIX
INRIX(R) is the leading provider of accurate traffic information and in-car connected services in North America and Europe, with over 70 customers and industry partners including Ford Motor Company, TomTom, MapQuest, Microsoft, TeleNav, I-95 Corridor Coalition, Tele Atlas, deCarta, ITIS Holdings, TCS, Telmap, ANWB, ARC Europe, and TNO. INRIX's strategic partnership with Clear Channel Radio and Total Traffic Network extends the delivery of the highest quality data and broadest coverage available for personal navigation, mapping, telematics and other location-based service applications in the car, online and on mobile devices.
INRIX Traffic Services leverage sophisticated statistical analysis techniques, originally developed by Microsoft Research, to aggregate and enhance traffic-related information from hundreds of public and private sources, including traditional road sensors and the company's unique network of nearly a million GPS-enabled vehicles and cellular probes. INRIX delivers traffic information today for over 120 markets in North America and via ARC Europe for 16 European countries. To experience the traffic technology revolution behind the next generation of navigation and location-based service applications, visit www.INRIX.com.
About Vizzion
Vizzion is a leading developer of traffic camera data services and publisher of the popular Traffic Vizzion mobile application for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices. More information is available at www.vizzion.com.
INRIX is a registered trademark of INRIX, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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