Pedestrian Safety Upgrade to City Traffic Lights
Pedestrians will be safer in Bendigo’s central business district with this week’s installation of Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles by the team at OmniGrip Direct. Following installations in Melbourne and Trafalgar in Victoria, and Dunedin in New Zealand, the Bendigo installation is the first in one…
Major Safety Upgrade to Highway Traffic Lights
OmniGrip Direct has installed Vivacity LED footpath lights in Trafalgar, Victoria, delivering a major safety upgrade to the pedestrian crossings of the busy Princes Highway. The footpath lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The site is the third…
Reducing Death and Injury on Regional Roads
The Australian and Victorian governments are trialling innovative new technologies to help reduce death and injury on regional roads in Victoria. In a first for regional Victoria, LED tactile pavings will be installed at pedestrian crossings in Bendigo and Trafalgar, with trials of glow-in-the-dark line…
Safer children at New Zealand traffic lights
LED footpath lights have been installed at a community traffic school in Dunedin, New Zealand, demonstrating the traffic light safety technology to children, their parents and carers. The new lights are Vivacity LED Safety Tactiles that change colour with the traffic lights. The installation of…
Is your surface genuine OmniGrip?
OmniGrip Direct will now advise Councils, asset managers and developers whether their contractors have purchased genuine OmniGrip Direct materials to use on their projects. When a Council, asset manager or developer’s architect or designer specifies one of OmniGrip Direct‘s products on its project, it’s because…
Road Safety Professionals Dazzled with Innovation
In May 2021, SmarterLite Group’s Chief Technology Officer Zoran Ovuka, was one of only four invited speakers on the topic of innovation in road safety at Roads Australia’s Spotlight on Safety forum in Brisbane, Queensland. With presentations by Neil Scales OBE, Director General, Department of…
Fix Blackspots in Federal Government ‘use it or lose it’ road funding
Victoria’s first allocation from the Federal Government’s $2 billion national road safety fund is set to run out in June 2021 in a ‘use it or lose it’ funding model. The funding – offered in three tranches over 18 months – puts a premium on…
Buying an emergency light monitoring system? Think again.
Safety Path exit signs continue to improve safety while reducing costs, emissions and disruption for building managers and owners. This includes enabling building managers to eliminate costly emergency light monitoring systems that are used to monitor a building’s electric-battery exit signs. With nearly 70 Bunnings…
Officeworks reduces emissions & improves safety with new exit signs
Leading Australian office supply retailer Officeworks has converted its first store from electric-battery exit signs to battery-free Safety Path exit signs, to reduce emissions, reduce costs, and increase reliability and safety. Officeworks is part of the Wesfarmers group, as is major hardware retailer Bunnings which…
Zoran Ovuka, SmarterLite’s CTO, interviewed by Entrepreneur Martin North
Martin North, a successful financial analyst and entrepreneur, interviewed SmarterLite’s CTO, Zoran Ovuka, in the latest episode of Walk the World. Walk the World has over 48,000 subscribers, and provides an independent data-driven view on finance, property and innovation. During the interview Zoran spoke about…
Exit Signs for Heritage Buildings
Safety Path LED Exit Signs have been installed in Milton House, a heritage building in Melbourne, by the Australian arm of the worlds largest real estate company, CBRE, to reduce costs, reduce risks and increase safety. Art Nouveau Milton House was constructed in 1901 as…
Premium Retail Centre Converts to Safety Path Exit Signs
Landmark premium retail and office building, the Como Centre in South Yarra, has installed Safety Path’s LED Exit Signs in its retail areas. The Como Centre is home to Australian TV network Channel 10. Safety Path LED Exit Signs replace the failure-prone batteries found in…
Grosvenor, Manager of 12,000 Buildings, Adopts Safety Path Exit Signs
A new alliance between Safety Path, a division of SmarterLite Group, and one of the nation’s biggest building technology providers, Grosvenor Engineering Group (Grosvenor), will cut carbon emissions and eWaste, and eliminate ongoing costs. The alliance will see people and property owners benefit from reliable…
Guide to reducing road crashes and injuries with HFST
There’s something missing from the toolbox of road managers and road safety practitioners in Australia. A quick and easily applied solution that will keep all types of vehicles on the road, reducing crashes, injuries and deaths in high risk and Black Spot locations. It’s widely…
Designing Traffic Lights & Crossings for People with LED TGSI
The Vivacity LED Safety Tactile fundamentally rethinks how visual information is provided to pedestrians at traffic signals and pedestrian crossings for roads, tramlines and train tracks. It is a Tactile Ground Surface Indictor (TGSI) that incorporates LED lights that can be connected to traffic lights….
10 Steps to Select and Specify Surfaces
Selecting and specifying surfaces for a road, path or building is an important decision that is often overlooked. A traffic engineer or road safety engineer may want a coloured bike lane, bus lane or pedestrian crossing, but leaves it to others to prepare the documentation….