Investment opportunities

I will try to keep this list updated.
Getting serious about stock symbols and an index.
http://www.jaustoolkit.com A startup in control by wire software. Was involved in DARPA runs.

These I am getting from Traffic Technology which has a link on my main blog.
Verifone (NYSE PAY)is focusing in Transportation

The Integrated Solutions organization will advance VeriFone’s development and implementation of integrated solutions for transportation and a strategy of driving payment solutions and transactions, as well as advertising sales by the recently formed VeriFone Media Solutions group.

This is about Black Box integration is autos:
(NAVTEQ is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia Corporation. )

NAVTEQ has announced that it is having its Map & Positioning Engine (MPE) concept taken significantly closer to production by the development of a reference application in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors and the electronics and software specialist, Technolution. The MPE reference package includes NAVTEQ’s MPE map and patented Electronic Horizon technology, plus GPS microprocessor, memory and all the required software, including map-matching, ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) Interface Specification (ADASIS) and Controller Area Network (CAN) bus interface. Working with this, NXP and Technolution have been establishing a clear path from concept to reference application and finally product development.

Vision Light Tech

Tel: +31 413 260067
Fax: +31 413 260938
Email: info@vlt.nl
Web: http://www.vlt.nl
Vision Light Tech
Vision Light Tech, or VLT, supplies a broad range of solutions in light, lenses and filters from its office in Uden, Holland. VLT is renowned for its expertise in this specialist niche market. VLT products are used in both the industrial machine vision industry as well as in traffic automation. The organisation distinguishes itself from others by offering a problem-focussed approach and customizing standard products to suit individual customer requirements.
The complexity of automated camera inspection in traffic control.
Traffic control is a key issue for the transport infrastructure industry. Take two important examples: rail inspection and license plate recognition.

Traficon

Email: traficon@traficon.com
Web: http://www.traficon.com/
Traficon is the leading reference in traffic detection based on video image processing. Traffic managers all over the world use this field-proven technology for vehicle presence detection, traffic data collection, automatic incident detection and management in motorway, tunnel, bridge and urban applications.
As an ISO9001:2000 certified company, Traficon strives to meet its customers' requirements by delivering reliable high quality products, tailor-made solutions and experienced project support.

Iteris (Santa Ana, California). Lane departure warning systems for trucks and cars that monitor position on the road. Used in over 35,000 trucks (2007). Also creates traffic monitoring systems.

Iteris Inc., (NYSE Amex: ITI) is a leader in the traffic management market.

MobilEye (Jerusalem, Israel). Vision systems that warn automobile drivers of danger, provide adaptive cruise control, and give driver assistance.

I know this company

Over the years, Matrox has earned its reputation as industry leader and innovator in today's most state-of-the-art technologies, designing software and hardware solutions in the fields of Graphics, Video editing and Image processing. Founded in 1976, Matrox has over 30 years of experience building award-winning products and solutions designed to meet our clients' diverse needs in the high-technology industry. Privately held, the company employs over 900 people worldwide at its headquarters in Montreal, as well as in international offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and China. Matrox operates three successful divisions : Matrox Graphics, Matrox Imaging and Matrox Video, each providing an extensive array of real-world relevant OEM and end-user solutions to businesses and individuals across a diverse range of industry sectors.

http://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/news.php?NewsID=20500
Skymeter does not yet list, but should:

The Skymeter Corporation, has won the ‘ITS/Traffic Management’ award and was also recognized as the ‘Overall Winner’ at the Intertraffic 2010 show in Amsterdam. Based in Toronto, Canada, Skymeter won the awards for its GPS-based financial-grade road use meter, designed for a variety of applications from road user charging and pay-as-you-drive insurance to parking.

Checking out German smart camera company:
http://vision-components.com/

China TransInfo Technology Nasdaq Capital Market in the U.S under the symbol of CTFO

Provider of public transportation information systems and technology, China TransInfo Technology Corp, has announced that it has acquired a majority interest in Beijing UNISITS Technology Co Ltd. China TransInfo aims to become the largest transportation information products and systems provider, as well as the largest real time transportation information platform operator and provider in China. The company is developing its transportation systems to include Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) technology and it also has an affiliation with Peking University, which provides it with access to the University’s GeoGIS Research Laboratory.

Mar 2010 research from ABI:

Global shipments of short range wireless ICs (Bluetooth, NFC, UWB, 802.15.4, Wi-Fi) are expected to surpass two billion units this year, increasing approximately 20% compared to 2009. Shipments are forecast to total five billion in 2014, according to new market data from ABI Research.

"Bluetooth ICs made up a significant part of the total short range wireless ICs shipments," says industry analyst Celia Bo. "Bluetooth took more than 55%, following by Wi-Fi at around 35%; the rest of the shipments were made up of NFC, UWB and 802.15.4 ICs."
And Federal Signal.

Q-FREE is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker QFR. For more information about the Q-FREE share at Oslo Stock Exchange, they sell toll pass technology fo road tolling and jsut pocked up 20 million in business.

Autoliv Inc. Trades on NYSE and positioning themselves as the go to supplier for technology add ons in transportation, especially in vehicle detection and guidance.

Econolite, one to watch.
Networks for traffic:

Several companies, including electronics manufacturers and tier-one suppliers, have already started to build DSRC hardware. TechnoCom’s Multiband Configurable Networking Unit (MCNU), for example, is already being installed at intersections in California, Michigan and New York. The MCNU enclosures, which would be piggy-backed on traffic signal controllers, include separate circuit boards for DSRC and WiFi interfaces, along with GPS and power supplies. A main circuit board equipped with a 1.5-GHz Intel Via processor serves as the central brain and all of the boards are housed in an 8-lb enclosure measuring 12 x 6 x 5 inches.

Nordic Semiconductor.
More on Cohda.
Pioneer has a lineup of car navigation systems, advanced models having DSRC.
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Increasing concerns over the safety and security of students, rising fuel prices, increasing overhead expenditures, and other operational issues have made the incorporation of school bus telematics systems indispensable. In fact, the telematics market is primed for growth between 2008 and 2014.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.automotive.frost.com), North American School Bus Telematics Market, finds that the market earned revenues of over $25.9 million in 2007 and estimates this to reach $109.8 million in 2014.

A good review of consumer DSRC pproduct growth.
Delphi (now bankrupt) had jumped into V2V communications.
Reference site for safety and communications.
Kapsch launches a DSRC communication module
Actelis Networks won a big contract with the City of San Jose Venture backed only
License plate readers
JAI
HTS
Matrox Industries
Skymeter

Cyber Systems Inc. No listing, had one of the cars pass the DARPA urban driving test.
Magellan Corporation makes GPS lane and route guidance. I think they are not listed yet.

In Motion won a contract to add wireless to some 500 Utah buses. The wireless net serves passengers, on line ticketing, bus scheduling.

Valde Systems automobile vision systems.
ObjectVideo, works with TI and the DaVinci vision architecture. Seems to be solving the problem of embedded video.
I found this site on New Flyer buses. New Flyer has about 40% of the American market.

Opportunities in vehicle communications for the automated highway will abound, adn the place I am looking is the OMNI Air association. I will be sorting through the vendors who participate in the consortium for winners and losers.

Siliconeer maker of DSRC chips. One of the first, a Korean company. Haven't found an investment tiker for the company, it is likely part of a Korean automotive group.

TI: Texas Instruments. They have the value added in digital signal processing, and will get half the traffic monitoring business. There will be a an average of 1.5 digital cameras at major downtown intersections.

PARVUS Moving toward DSRC which is the communication standard for intelligent traffic.
Autoliv pedestrian detection by computer vision. Right technology, wrong marketing focus. A start up, needs watching. Website sucks bad.

Image Sensing Systems Inc (ISS) looks good, I need to look further in to it.

Iteris Inc, a Silicon Valley start up competing with Mobil Eye, but they seem awfully short on vision technology. This may leave my list.

Tanscore sells RF tag technology for automatic toll charges and freight tracking, and was purchased by Roper Industries. This is going off my list soon.

Magna Electronics (Symbol: MGA) acquired BluWave which gives Maga a much better leg up in the hybrid market, including electric hub motors which are critical to advanced electric propulsion.

DRI NASDAQ: TBUS), Corporation is a digital communications technology leader in the global surface transportation and transit security markets. Globally well positioned for intelligent BRT systems.

iRobot, NASDAQ IRBT, got a $35 million order from the Army, likely to rise to $135 million, the largest contract so far for the company.

Motorola has wireless traffic signal management, but their web site is impossible to navigate.

China Transinfo Technology, solvng the software traffic control problem
CTFO (Nasdaq Global Market)

Naztec, another traffic management software vendor. There will e lots of these, this one has garnered a partnership with Cisco.

Integrated Motion has a role in the US Berkeley plan to roll out magnetic guidance tehnology i phase two testing for BRT lane guidance. But they look like a distributor

IrisBus, maker of optically guided buses.

And the CyberCab site for the development of second generation cybercab.

Reflex Robotics, maker of platform for driverless functions.


Trapeze Software awarded contract

Savari Network auto to ground auto to auto digital comm bases on Wi Fi

Kairos Autonomi conversion kits.

Vision Light Tech another industrial vision, reading license plates.

Robosoft

Corrutto Can

Iteris a driver assist vision technology vendor from Santa Ana with ticker ITI. Seems well positioned and stable, around since 1987.

There is MobilEye from Israel, though I am not sure how to trade it. They got a contract for 3500 trucks in the US from CR England. They licensed the ARM technology, Nasdaq:ARMHY

OmniVision

Enables next generation of driverless vision.

Starting with Gottwald
E-AGVs Successfully Launched in Fiscal 2004/2005
Another very positive development was the successful introduction of Gottwald’s new environmentally and economically advanced E-AGV series: a diesel-electric drive AGV Automated Guided Vehicle. The new E-AGVs offer the same handling features as the standard diesel-hydraulic drive AGVs but they use Gottwald’s well-known diesel-electric concept, a design that has already successfully been implemented in Gottwald Mobile Harbour Cranes and that offers a superior degree of efficiency, exceptional reliability and overall cost savings.

And Transbotics... acquired by Nova Tech
Corecon
Savant
NDC
SwissLog
HK Systems
SICK (what a name)
RICO
Like Kiva Systems, who make delivery bots for factory floor.
And Advanced Transport Systems Ltd, maker of the taxi bot.
And a market report.
Global demand to rise 5+% annually through 2012
The world market for material handling equipment and systems is projected to increase more than five percent per year through 2012 and exceed $120 billion (including price increases). Generally healthy economic conditions will support gains in global material handling demand, especially in rapidly developing areas such as China and India, where rising manufacturing output and fixed investment will fuel growth. The advanced nations of North America, Western Europe and the Asia/Pacific region (i.e., Australia and Japan) comprise relatively mature markets for material handling. A healthy economic outlook coupled with a pickup in fixed investment will support material handling demand in the US, while expanding manufacturing output will support gains in Japan and Western Europe.

Most of the largest and most advanced material handling industries are located in advanced nations, particularly those that have large, well-developed home markets, technical expertise in manufacturing higher-value products and access to factors of production such as capital and labor supplies. However, China has become a major producer, benefitting from a low cost wage pool and export opportunities to developing Asian economies.

Via Report Linker