Helen Norman

The winners of the IBC Innovation Awards were revealed at an event at the Amsterdam RAI last night, honouring collaborative projects tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges.

A fully equipped broadcast studio outside Entrance C is giving IBC2026 exhibitors a place to share their show news through professional interviews and video content.

The Managing Director of the EBU's first direct-to-consumer platform tells David Davies about two years of market growth and technological progress, recent excursions into AI, and the broader EBU sports ecosystem.

Pavement marking contractor D.E. Gemmill has become the first company in the USA to use robotic plotter technology for transverse-joint layout, combining Contractor D.E. Gemmill pairs LiDAR scanning with a Tyker robotic plotter to mark transverse joints and cut crews' time on live roads.

Intelligent Transport Systems UK (ITS UK) and the Data Inspiration Group have launched Project Route, a free, live virtual work experience programme that ITS UK and the Data Inspiration Group launch free live transport data challenges for students, from bus routes to autonomous vehicles.

Together for Safer Roads (TSR) has presented its 2026 Vision Zero Awards to David Harkey, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

The Detroit Fire Department has launched a 90-day pilot of cloud-based emergency vehicle preemption technology at five signalised intersections in the city's Corktown district, aiming to cut response times by up to 25% and reduce crashes at those junctions by up to 70%.

Free-flow parking already removed the barrier, the ticket machine, and the attendant. Serverless processing on the camera chipset removes the next piece of equipment: the server itself, Asura Technologies reports

Valerann has launched pilots of its Lanternn AI-powered traffic management platform on Italy’s A22 motorway and Brazil’s Rodovia das Colinas to test data Valerann is testing its Lanternn AI traffic management platform on Italy’s A22 and Brazil’s Rodovia das Colinas, focusing on data fusion and incident detection.

Opsys Technologies argues that falling lidar costs are only part of the equation, with scalable deployment, reliability and operational simplicity now key Opsys Technologies explores how lidar can move beyond pilots by reducing deployment complexity, improving reliability and enabling transportation agencies to scale the technology affordably.