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Australia start using e-ink based road signs

Many book worms know the significance of e-ink, thanks to Kindle and other ebook readers. Never did we thought that e-ink can make traffic signs better. Australian Road and Maritime Serivces has setup e-paper traffic signs on Sydney roads and this is the first time that e-ink was used for traffic signs (not signals). The best advantage is that since e-ink display does not consume power unless the text is changing, e-ink signs will stay on during lack of power. These signs will be connected to cellular network for centralized operation.

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Rok Zalar, Visionect’s head of product development, explains how the power optimization works: “The hardware components are managed by server software programmed to ‘wake up’ the sign for certain pre-scheduled windows of time when the content on the sign will be changed using 3G technology. Outside of the ‘waking’ time, the traffic signs use no power.

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