Siemens UK  has secured a contract from England’s North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) to provide traffic signal network management and monitoring.

Under the contract terms, Siemens will be deploying its cloud-based solution Stratos that is designed for all traffic management, control and monitoring requirements.

NYCC network strategy manager Allan McVeigh said: “The new contract will provide NYCC with a higher level of operational support to manage the new systems and the NYCC network effectively.

"Using Stratos, Siemens will provide network management during normal office hours and network monitoring and fault management on a 24 hour basis, seven days a week."

“Using Stratos, Siemens will provide network management during normal office hours and network monitoring and fault management on a 24 hour basis, seven days a week.”

As part of North Yorkshire’s Highway Maintenance Service, the County Council has the responsibility to maintain a total of 337 installations, including 103 junctions, 205 pedestrian crossings and 29 Variable message signs.

North Yorkshire will also be maintaining an Urban Traffic Control system in Harrogate and Scarborough to monitor and report on operational conditions at 57 sites in Harrogate and 27 in Scarborough.

Siemens head of operational services Martin Andrews said: “Linking existing local systems delivering traffic control, sign and car-park management in both Harrogate and Scarborough, Stratos provides scalable real-time traffic management, information and control, ranging from basic monitoring to strategic control in a new ITS hosted solution, meaning there is no need for dedicated servers or client machines, which in turn means no capital cost, depreciation of assets or ongoing hardware maintenance costs.

“Combined with our new service offering, NYCC will benefit from a consistent level of support to manage and monitor the traffic signals network and systems.”

Additional monitoring is undertaken by a combined Siemens Remote Monitoring System that monitors an additional 188 sites.