Featured in 50 Shades of Future PV – 04-2015

Everything in view

Off-grid solutions: Along the ShuGang highway from HuangDao to JiaoNan, 122 remote monitoring systems powered by Phocos PL series charge controllers send video data to three control centers that supervise and evaluate the traffic. Susanne Kircher of Phocos visited the traffic control center of Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co. Ltd. in HuangDao and spoke with the department manager and staff about their experiences with the system.

In 2013, 198,394 traffic accidents and 58,316 road deaths – the statistics portal Statista paints a grim picture of the dangers on the road. And these were only figures from China. In the first 10 months of 2014, the Ministry of Public Security reported 87,218 fatalities from 426,378 traffic accidents. China ranks just behind Africa and the Middle East with …

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