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We are excited to announce that Sensor Line has been acquired by International Road Dynamics Inc. (IRD) www.irdinc.com, as a wholly owned subsidiaryl. We are joining the IRD portfolio of products and solutions for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) globally. This acquisition supports IRD’s continued growth in the ITS industry and supports the goal of being a leading supplier to the worldwide toll market. Sensor Line is thrilled to join the IRD family, to innovate together and continue to deliver exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and distributors globally.

IRD is a dynamic technology company engaged in developing key components and advanced systems for the next generation of transportation networks. Together with subsidiaries PAT Traffic and ICOMS Detections, IRD supplies ITS solutions to private corporations, transportation agencies, and highway authorities worldwide. IRD's systems make highways safer, greener, and more efficient. Known globally as a trusted partner providing sales, service, and installation support on major ITS projects for over 40 years, IRD contributes to creating smarter cities by empowering engineering and urban planning professionals to access reliable traffic data.

As a Sensor Line customer or partner, this transaction will have no impact on your existing relationship with the company. Manufacturing of our products will continue at our facility near Munich as IRD will use this transaction, in part, to gain a larger presence in the European market.

Moving forward, through collaboration and innovation, we will maintain our commitment to delivering new features and providing the excellent customer support that you are accustomed to. Together, we will remain singularly focused on delivering the highest quality solutions to our customers that drive maximum value from their current and ongoing ITS investments.

At Sensor Line, our goal has always been to support you, our customers and partners, in providing innovative quality products. Joining IRD significantly expands our ability to achieve that goal for you.
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Sensor Line honors its long-term commitment to ELISA Family Aftercare by again donating 8.000,00 € in 2020.
ELISA supports ill children and their families after they have left hospital. The children are chronically or terminally ill, are prematurely born, have had an accident or developed cancer. Some of them are ill since birth, so ELISA accompanies them for many years. Their team consists of professional nurses and therapists with much empathy and experience.
With this year’s donation, Sensor Line contributes to the foundation of a mobile palliative care team.
If you would like to help as well, please go to elisa-familiennachsorge.de

With its synchronized time stamp, a high resolution of 10 kHz, and a dynamic range of 33dB, it is state of the art engineering.

The XD-1100 has a high amplification and a high resolution, thus delivering crystal clear signals for a multitude of applications such as flat wheel detection, vibration or track bed analysis.

And unlike its analog predecessor, it is digital with a USB and RS-485 serial output and a lot of freely selectable settings for analog voltage output, amplification and so on. Additionally, it always adjusts the quiescent signal so that the system is insensitive to outer changes.

All of our FORPS sensors (FORPS UIC 60/HS, FORPS UIC 54, FORPS S 49) can be directly connected to it.

Sensor Line is a pioneer in the field of fiber optic technology. We have been developing fiber optic sensors for road and rail traffic for more than 20 years now.

The most crucial point of our fiber optic sensors in rail is that they are immune against electromagnetic interference in contrast to conventional systems (it eliminates the negative effects of classic electro-magnetic systems, such as electromagnetic interference).

And not only is our FORPS a fiber optic sensor, but we also have fiber optic cables with low attenuation losses leading all the way to the roadside cabinet. So there is no need for any shielding and electronics in the track area or along the track.

Using our fiber optic technology, you do not only have the advantage of lower costs (versus copper), but you also get to eliminate lightning damage and electromagnetic interference.

You just lift the rail, put the sensor pad on the sleeper and put the rail down again, without even stopping the running train traffic. No mechanical machining is needed.

Then you connect the cables to a road side cabinet where our electronical interface is. The digital signals are being collected with a computer and sent to your server via LTE.

When you want to cover a full rail wheel, for example for flat wheel detection, usually 16 sensors are being installed, 14 normal ones and 2 with a temperature sensor. Then you might want to consider closing the track for a few hours! 😊

We have got all different sensor types available for the different rail dimensions, for example UIC 54, UIC 60, UIC 60 High Speed for TGV, S 49…

UPDATE MARCH 2020:
Intertraffic Amsterdam has been postponed for a year due to COVID-19 virus!

"Intertraffic Amsterdam is moving from 21-24 April 2020 to 23 - 26 March 2021. We, as organizer, are complying with the explicit wishes of both exhibitors and visitors to reschedule the event. The significant increase in the global spread of COVID-19 has resulted in this decision.
With the change of dates to 2021, the biennial frequency of Intertraffic Amsterdam will as of now move to the uneven years. The upcoming editions will hence be in 2021, 2023 etc."

So let's hope we will all meet in Amsterdam next year.

So we are in our second winter at a test site from a big German railway operator, and so far it is looking good!
The test site (steel and wooden sleepers) is very busy and has freight traffic, too. There is hardly any wear or ageing effect noticeable, and the signals are as clear as they were in the beginning – as it should be.
Also, our new electronic that comes with the rail pad sensor, the one-channel XD-1100 turns out to be a fine piece of thoughtful engineering.
It has a synchronized time stamp and a high resolution with 10 kHz, with a dynamic range of 33dB.

Our FORPS rail sensor is able to measure the vertical impact of a train onto the rail. It picks up vibrations and shocks in a wide frequency range and is therefore well suited for train and track maintenance diagnostics.
Because of our revolutionary fiber-optic technology, it is immune to electromagnetic interference. FORPS has a very easy handling and non-invasive installation, as again shown at the test site: you could just lift the rail, put the sensor pad on the sleeper and put the rail down again, without even stopping the running train traffic.

A ready to install SL FORPS comprises the sensor pad, a fiberoptic feeder cable in a metal housing terminated with fiber optic connectors. To operate the sensor it is connected to a Sensor Line opto-electronic interface, the XD-1100.
Typical applications by our solution partners are vibration analysis, flat wheel detection, track bed analysis and axle & wagon counting, to name just a few.

After having successfully participated in last year’s Intertraffic Mexico, Sensor Line went to Mexico again this year to take part in the biggest traffic and mobility trade event there.
Together with our regional manager for Latin America, Mr. Daniel DeVia, Sensor Line presented our family of fiber optic sensors together with the fitting electronics at our stand.

Special interest raised our new addition to our product range, especially designed frames for the Latin American market which fit into most of the existing frames.
Therefore, almost any type of sensor product can be replaced with our state-of-the-art fiber optic sensors, which have a 24 months warranty, 5 years MTBF and a vehicle detection rate of 100%.
Trade visitors were especially pleased to find out that our sensors last longer than most of the existing frame solutions, therefore need fewer replacements, a lower stock and less down time of the lanes.

Mexico has been lovely as ever, hasta la próxima vez! (Until next time!)

Sensor Line will next exhibit at Intertraffic Amsterdam in April 2020. Be sure to visit us there!

After Sensor Line’s donation of 10.000 Euros from last year, the team of Elisa Family Aftercare could finally realise their long planned holiday weekend to Irmengardhof at Lake Chiemsee with all their little patients and families. Thanks to Sensor Line, all families were taken good care of by an accompanying doctor and children's nurses. Parents, siblings and the seriously ill children enjoyed the break from their everyday routine and had an exciting time at Lokschuppen Rosenheim, in the big LEGO room or with the horses and donkeys around the farm.
Thanks to Sensor Line’s recent donation of 8.000,00 Euro in 2019, Elisa Family Aftercare is able to offer another family weekend for their little patients at Pentecost next year.

After successfully participating at Intertraffic Mexico 2018 for the first time we are proud to announce Sensor Line has become a strong partner for Latin America.
Intertraffic is the world's leading trade event for the traffic and mobility industry. Since its launch in 1972, Intertraffic has become the platform of choice for professionals from around the world to meet. It is a biennial must attend event to stay up to speed on the developments in the fields of infrastructure, traffic management, safety, parking and smart mobility.
The main goal is to present state-of-the-art Fiber Optic Road Sensor, our SL Road System and our brand new Peana replacements.

Come visit us at Intertraffic Mexico 2019, 12. – 14. November, Hall C, Stand Number 800.

"New York State is making historic investments building a modern transportation network worthy of the 21st century and beyond," Governor Cuomo said. "By investing in technology like cashless tolling, we are creating a safer, greener and less congested Thruway system and ensuring our transportation infrastructure is capable of supporting New York's growing economy."
Sensor Line sensors will play an elemental role in this project, by ensuring the correct classification of approximately 267 million motorists that travel the superhighway each year. The confidence in fiber optic sensor technology and the decision to use Sensor Line sensors is proof that our products satisfy the highest standards of accuracy and reliability.
The cashless tolling project at New York State Thruway is a milestone for Sensor Line's mission in becoming the producer of the single best sensor technology and ITS and ETC sub-systems, for collecting and providing vehicular characteristic data with the highest possible accuracy and reliability for traffic monitoring applications.

For many years, Matthias was the one who gave every SL PUR, EZ and EZR Sensor its shape. He operated the cast machine with marvellous precision and patience. The outcome were consistently high quality products, that our customers all over the world integrated into their intelligent transport systems.

By the end of June 2019, Matthias has left Sensor Line and started his well-deserved retirement. Instead of a golden watch as retirement gift, our employee Matthias got a golden SL PUR Sensor, signed by everyone in the Sensor Line team. Sensor Line owners Julia Knoll and Eva Dreier expressed their gratitude and wished Matthias well for a long, healthy and happy life in retirement.

Sensor Line happily welcomes Daniel DeVia as new Regional Manager for Latin America (LATAM). With Daniel as a new member, Sensor Line made a first step to achieving its forward-looking strategy for the LATAM Sector. With his great expertise in traffic monitoring and his local knowledge Daniel is an enormous enrichment for our team. We are convinced that the Latin American sector offers a great potential for our road traffic products and with Daniel it is possible to work even closer with our customers. At the beginning of this year we recorded our first successes realising our strategy. In Lima 22 lanes will be equipped with our SL EZ LATAM sensors in the coming weeks. Daniel is the perfect fit, to successfully implement and push our strategy in Latin America. Sensor Line wishes Daniel all the best for his new job and a successful business.

Get in touch:
Daniel DeVia, Regional Manager LATAM
M: daniel.devia@sensorline.de
T: + 57 3188006981
A: Carrera 7 to # 94A-43, Of 502
Bogota D.C. Colombia

This year, Sensor Line GmbH donated 10,000.00 Euro to enable seriously ill children and their parents to spend a family weekend together in 2019. The aim of this family weekend is to "bring along all families who would like to go with them - no matter how badly the child is affected. This means that we also give children who need artificial respiration and / or artificial nutrition the chance to travel with us. For this reason, a doctor and children's nurses are always there to take care of the children," says Nadine Dier, Managing Director of ELISA.
The entire Sensor Line team wants to make a mark with this donation. The financial support is an important contribution to ELISA's continuing ability to do good things for the benefit of the little patients.

In 2018, Sensor Line participated for the first time at Intertraffic Mexico. Together with our long time associates Deviteck from Colombia and Techno Supply from Brasil we had the intention to leave a very good first impression at the exhibition. For Sensor Line and its partners, the fair was a great success where many new and promising business contacts were made. Sensor Line spotlighted its brand new classification system – SL Road System – that is an important step for Sensor Line in becoming a system provider. Alongside its SL Road System, Sensor Line displayed some of its unique and reliable Fiber Optic Road Sensors, which are noise free, EMV immune and visibility independent. However, the many new products were not the only topic for Sensor Line on the fair. In addition to its operative segment, Sensor Line discussed with interested and potential clients its forward-looking strategy for the Latin American sector in 2019. Be excited to see what else we have to offer you. For further information, you can contact us at info@sensorline.de

In 2018 SignCo successfully installed 30 stations for bicycle detection. This happened in the cities of Bruges, Gent, Antwerp, Mechelen in Belgium as well as in Eindhoven and Helmond in the Netherlands. The use of our sensitive TWIN sensors, specially developed for this purpose, for bicycles, children's bicycles and strollers shows how flexible and versatile Sensor Line sensors are. Our partner SignCo has already announced further bicycle counting stations for the year 2019.
Engineer Stijn Goossens, Director of SignCo, about Sensor Line: "The sensitivity and accuracy of Sensor Line's sensors are enormous. No matter whether an adult or a child is sitting on a bicycle, or even a stroller is driving over our stations. With these sensors, we can detect and count everything very accurately. No matter what kind of weather, day/night, materials used for the bikes or magnetic fields around the location. This makes it a very robust and accurate way of high qualitative measurements. Direction, type of passant, speed, occupancy, … it’s all known and with innovation just around the corner, we will even add extra information to it."

Intertraffic is the world's leading trade event for the traffic and mobility industry. Since its launch in 1972, Intertraffic has become the platform of choice for professionals from around the world to meet. It is a biennial must attend event to stay up to speed on the developments in the fields of infrastructure, traffic management, safety, parking and smart mobility.
This year Sensor Line will participate at Intertraffic Mexico for the first time. The main goal is to present state-of-the-art Fiber Optic Road Sensor and our brand new SL Road System. Also Sensor Line is there to meet long time partners from all over the world, especially from Latin America. We will discuss our Latin American strategy with our partners to strengthen our business relationships.
Come visit us at Intertraffic Mexico 2018, 13. – 15. November, Hall D, Stand Number 329.

Sensor Line has been awarded with the Jury level of the Grand Prix of medium-sized Businesses („Großer Preis des Mittelstandes“) 2018.

The highly coveted trophy by the Oskar-Patzelt Foundation is one of the most important business awards in Germany. This award is a great honor for the whole Sensor Line Team and motivates everybody to reach our higher goals.

In July 2018 Sensor Line passed the first monitoring audit to confirm certificates ISO 9001:2015. The audit impressively demonstrates our dedication to the quality management system. The auditor stated that all processes are in conformity and the audit was passed without any exceptions and notices.

At InnoTrans 2018, the rail industry’s leading international trade fair, Sensor Line launches with SL Rail system a rail traffic management system for flat wheel detection. It is based on Sensor Line’s Fiber Optic Rail Pad Sensor (FORPS) and four high speed signal processing systems.
The pad sensors are easy to install, immune against EMP and deliver a highly accurate signal. The four signal processing systems acquire synchronized data with 10 kHz each. Preprocessing is done on a Raspberry Pi system on site. Results are send by wireless/wired network to SL Rail Manager and stored in a central database.
SL Rail Cockpit Monitor shows actual data and gives access to all stored data for comparison and reports. Furthermore, an interface to other customer systems is provided.

Visit us at InnoTrans in Berlin, 18 - 21 September 2018, Hall 26, Booth 206.

Sensor Line has been awarded the seal of approval "innovative through research" for its efforts in fiber optic road and rail traffic technology by the Stifterverband. Stifterverband is a joint initiative of companies and foundations and is involved in advising, networking and promoting education, science and innovation.

"I'm very proud of this exceptional achievement of our development team", says CEO Robert Rubner, "this is the best motivation to continue our task to continuously improve our products and work on new inventions for our customer's satisfaction."

Sensor Line GmbH is nominated for the Grand Prix of medium-sized Businesses („Großer Preis des Mittelstandes“) 2018.

The highly coveted trophy by the Oskar-Patzelt Foundation is one of the most important business awards in Germany. The nomination itself is an honor, since the selection procedure is only possible upon recommendation by other companies or institutions.

“We are very happy about the nomination because the theme of this years' Grand Prix 'Shaping the Future' corresponds well with Sensor Line's plans and our mission" says CEO Robert Rubner.

Since 24th of August 2017, Sensor Line has a new test track in Schrobenhausen. At Königslachener Weg, two systems have been installed: two 1-Slot Frames plus a loop wire and four PUR Sensors with the configuration for double wheel detection, also in combination with a loop wire. They are installed with three different filler materials for comparison. The purpose of this test track is on the one hand to further develop and refine the System SL Road System and on the other hand to have an exhibition site to meet with customers. Sensor Line is committed to constantly improving the outstanding fiber optic sensor technology and products and offering the best services possible to their customers.

In July 2017, Sensor Line has successfully passed the certification audit according to ISO 9001:2015.