SafeGuard by IMMI displayed its new SuperSTAR seat that is


designed and tested for 25- to 90-pound preschool students. The company says this is the only restraint engineered with the added safety of car-seat technology, while providing student transporters with more versatility. The central adjust allows for an easier, one-pull tightening of the restraint system and the seat cover is new and easier to clean. Provided attachments can wrap around any school bus seat and the flatter base contours to provide more comfort. Meanwhile, SafeGuard also unveiled the new BTI Seat used standard in IC Bus models. The seats are 100 percent upgradeable to seat belts and are also promised to last the life of each school bus they are installed in.


The buzz at Safety Vision centered on the new Safety Vision 360 fisheye IP dome camera with integrated microphone. The company said it provides a full panoramic, 1080p image and in doing so captures all school bus action via a single camera channel. The wide 2048-by-2048 pixel image, which Safety Vision said provides more coverage with fewer cameras at 2K, is then “dewarped” in SafetyView PRO viewing software. Users can pan and scan the image, as well as zoom in for detail.


Seon and Safe Fleet showed the new TH Series high- definition video surveillance systems. Announced at the end of May, the TH Series is a hybrid system of interior dome and external wedge cameras with DVRs that Seon said is specifically designed for fleets that want multiple high-definition views inside and outside the vehicle with the flexibility to extend the life of existing standard definition cameras. The TH6, TH4 and TH4C high-definition dome cameras offer any combination of standard resolution analog or high-definition video for a total of four or six video and audio channels, and the DVRs record at up to 30 FPS simultaneously with up to 2TB of storage. The system is expected to be available in the third quarter of this year.


While its existence is known industrywide, STN EXPO Trade


Show attendees were among the chosen few to lay their eyes and hands on the new DD8 medium-duty engine for Thomas Built Buses. Expected to be available for the rear-engine HDX late next year, the 7.7L in-line 6-cylinder engine boasts 260 to 350 hp and a torque range of 600 to 1,050 pounds per foot. It will also feature the Detroit Connect Virtual Technician remote diagnostic service. The smaller DD5 engine was also on display at the STN EXPO.


Titan Bus displayed its newly launched Type A bus that of-


fers standard 5/8-inch plywood floors, tinted glass, LED light- ing, one-piece flooring and multi-plex electrical systems. The dual-rear wheel model provides a 92-inch-wide interior with 14- inch aisles to accommodate 39-inch seats as well as a 30-inch wide entrance door to ease loading and unloading. The sin- gle-rear wheel model offers three-two seating configurations for a 20-passenger capacity in a four-window section body.


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