Open Roads Announces OpenTMS™ Enterprise Edition

Open Roads Consulting Incorporated is pleased to announce the release of the newest OpenTMS™ Enterprise Edition software suite. OpenTMS™ combines powerful roadway device control and monitoring, scheduling, incident detection/management, and work zone management into a seamlessly integrated off-the-shelf software package. Whether an agency has one or two types of roadway devices from a single manufacturer, or a large array of different types and manufacturers of roadway devices, this software package will meet their needs.

With its open architecture design and open protocol interfaces, 3rd party software and hardware can be integrated seamlessly. This provides agencies with complete freedom of choice in suppliers of roadway devices. OpenTMS™ offers technical superiority, ease of use, scalability, and cost effectiveness.

Barbara Skiffington, President of Open Roads, said, "We feel that this is the beginning of a paradigm shift for ITS central software deployments. We are excited to deliver lower cost, high tech 'off-the-shelf' solutions in an environment of continual decreases in Federal and State budgets."

With OpenTMS™ Enterprise, it is easy to add or snap-in one, all, or any combination of components based on your immediate needs. As needs grow, the system can be expanded by simply adding one or more components. Agencies can now deploy an off-the-shelf solution economically and with minimal risk.

Agencies can start with low-cost communication architecture (i.e., dialup). In the future, the system can be expanded to accommodate additional roadway devices and upgraded communication architecture, without replacing the OpenTMS™ software.

Steve Beckwith, Vice President of Open Roads, said,

"Until now, agencies had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop central systems that rarely worked properly. This prevented the smaller jurisdictions from taking advantage of ITS. With our off-the-shelf software, agencies can deploy ITS components quickly and economically, providing substantial benefits for their constituents. This is of particular importance now with the ever decreasing budgets, and the increased need for security across the country."

Open Roads Consulting Inc. is a full service software development company. The firm provides ITS and security software components, custom software solutions, web applications and software support and maintenance. Open Roads is a Women Business Enterprise (WBE), certified in Virginia.