Time Clocks/School Zones/DLPRO Software

Improve Safety with School Zone Beacons

The importance of slower speeds when students are arriving or leaving school is key to their safety. At 10MPH a person has a 90% chance of survival. At 40 MPH the survival rate declines to 20%. Even though driver’s are required to learn the ‘rules of the road’, motorists continue to ignore or not notice the activated school zone flashing beacons alerting them to adhere to the posted, lower speed limit. The reason traffic warning systems from ELTEC exist is because certain high-risk areas or situations…

Antennas Mounted on Water Towers Support School’s IP Time Clocks

The school zone flashing beacons in Longview, Texas (pop 85,000) used a paging system to program school signals. Keith Covington, Traffic Signal Supervisor, determined the system “limited us, not only communicating with the clocks but monitoring the clocks”. ELTEC’s SYSTEM 3000 was chosen to centrally program, manage, and monitor each TC-3000 IP time clock (36 total). After reviewing available communication options to the Traffic Center from each LANG 3000 (gateway), it was determined to use the…

Solutions for Spot Devices’ School Beacons (IMSA Jan/Feb ’15)

When the SIMA software service was discontinued, remote communication and programming to Spot Devices’ school zones systems was no longer possible; nor was there a means for programming at the pole. For the MODOT (Missouri) Southwest District, ELTEC designed a cost-effective solution while salvaging as many parts as possible. Specifically, the cabinet, battery, charge controller, solar panel, and beacon were reused. A voltage booster circuit was integrated inside ELTEC’s TC- 18 programmable time…

School Zone Safety Report

Every year, on average, 100 children are killed and 25,000 are injured walking to and from school, according to ATS. The company attributes many of these incidents to drivers who are distracted, speeding through school zones or illegally passing stopped school buses as children move toward or away from the bus. Enforcing traffic laws can help reduce these hazards, company officials said, but the demands on officers make it challenging for them to maintain a constant presence on school buses and in…

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System 3000 Network Based Time Clock (IMSA July-August ’10)

ELTEC Introduces Network Based Time Clock Download Article Here ELTEC has launched a new program-mable time clock, the TC-3000. Using your available internet/network ac-cess, it provides real-time closed-loop management from a host computer, eliminating the need to send techni-cians for on-site trouble shooting or changing/modifying programs. The System 3000 (DLPRO 3000 soft-ware, LANG 3000 & TC-3000 time clock) utilizes the internet or private intranet and RF technology eliminat-ing paging…

DLPRO 17E Software updates Mar-Apr ’10

NTC-17E Software ‘Gets Better with Age’ Download Article Here For over 40 years ELTEC has been manufacturing programmable time clocks for the traffic industry. ELTEC’s DLPRO 17E software is used to program the NTC-17E series (AC, DC, 1, 2, or 4 relays) from a computer. Annual programs including all exceptions are downloaded once a year. The NTC-17E time clock has always had the op-tion of being password protected. Now, the DL-PRO 17E software has a new security feature. The improved…