Aldis Corp.’s GridSmart product line is not only the world’s first single-camera solution for intersection management, but it offers a significant cost advantage versus all other vehicle stop bar technologies. The total five year cost to deploy and maintain the Aldis GridSmart system is only $15,000 per intersection compared to $21,700 for other vision-based detection systems and $17,725 for traditional loop systems. The cost advantage is further demonstrated when considering not only the cash expense to manually replace inductive loop systems, but also the indirect expense of temporarily closing travel lanes for loop maintenance.
The significant upfront cost advantage as a vehicle stop bar is coupled with multiple value added features unique to the GridSmart product line such as automated vehicle counting and classification, turn counts, speed calculations and the ability to monitor the system and the intersection in real-time via the Internet. This integration of practical intersection control and real-time metrics further increases the value of the GridSmart product line as the source of cost effective intersection data to be used to improve both existing intersection traffic flow and new intersection design.