Company Overview

International Road Dynamics Inc. (IRD) is a publicly held Canadian company incorporated in 1980, trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol IRD. The main facility is in Saskatoon. Branch offices are located in Canada (Ontario), the United States (9 locations), and India.

IRD's primary product, a weigh-in-motion system, is a unique integrated sensor technology system that acquires real time data on highway vehicles (numbers, weight, type and density of traffic) and road and weather conditions such as icy roads, fog, rain, snow, etc.

The primary product can be augmented to integrate real time air pollution monitoring and provide a driver advisory service. The weigh-in-motion system ideally allows components to be selected or deselected and permits correlations of components involving pollution, traffic, type of traffic, weather, road conditions, etc., as well as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) for bridges, tunnels, etc.

Geographical Marketing Activities: 75-80% of the market is in the United States. Sales have been made throughout Canada and through agents to India, China, Indonesia, Egypt, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Puerto Rico, Columbia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, and Venezuala. IRD is interested in expansion as well as various arrangements with foreign firms.

The system operates on either DOS or UNIX platforms. The technology offers a total system that is highly flexible combining transportation and pollution data in real time. Patents are held on the weigh-in-motion aspects of the system. Aspects of the air monitoring component are being considered.

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Legal Name: International Road Dynamics Inc.

Number of Employees: 150

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Products

• Balance
• Balances And Scales, Nes
• Classifiers Axle Load

  IRD specializes in classifying vehicles in motion based on axle weight, axle number and spacing.

• Classifiers Vehicle
• Control Equipment, Safety, Highway, Nes
• Counters Traffic

  IRD manufactures and supplys electronic equipment and in-road sensors to count and classify vehicles in motion.

• Environmental Products And Services
• Fiber Optic Sensors
• Integrated Traffic Monitoring System - Intelligent Transportation Systems (its).

  IRD Environmental Monitoring and Advisory Systems forewarn traffic and trucks of potentially dangerous highway conditions. The system monitors visibility, ice and traffic conditions and forewarns traffic via message signs. In addition, the central weather station and highway services can be alerted.

• Scale
• Scales Weigh In Motion Electronic

  IRD specializes in designing and supplying weigh-in-motion equipment and systems for data collection and weigh station sorter applications. IRD produces a variety of weigh-in-motion scales including: Bending-Plate; Single-Load-Cell;

  Slow-Speed-WIM; and portable WIM Mat scales.

• Traffic And Transit Signal Systems
• Truck Safety Systems

  IRD provides commercial vehicle safety systems that use weight, speed and classification data to reduce the incidence of truck rollover on roadways with steep downgrades and sharp turns.

• Wim Software

  For weigh station to weigh and classify trucks. ConnectIT Category Description: Transportation Weighing Systems

NAICS Categories

• 334512 Measuring, Medical and Controlling Devices Manufacturing

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