Infrastructure is changing fast and leaving many agencies behind. Cities want smarter intersections, traffic crews need remote visibility without sending a truck every time the beacon acts up, and school districts demand safe crossings without trenching. While legacy systems are not going away, Ethernet, cellular, LoRa, and high-bandwidth backhaul are becoming the norm. In that landscape, ENCOM Wireless offers technology that works in real-world environments.
For over 30 years, ENCOM has had one goal: to provide wireless connectivity that is reliable and easy to install. It creates products that offer end users flexible wireless on-off control, advanced real-time monitoring, and high bandwidth backhaul without requiring a wholesale infrastructure replacement.
The company’s products are used for signal interconnect, school zone alerts, pedestrian safety, serial system migration, video transport, remote I/O, and intelligent field network management across North America. Municipal governments, DoT districts, emergency response teams, corporate IT departments, and Homeland Security rely on it because the technology performs consistently in snowstorms, desert heat, and complex urban environments.
ENCOM’s Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon line is a manifestation of the pragmatism built into its engineering. RRFB systems with TOMAR LEDs and MUTCD-compliant rapid flash patterns are designed to rapidly alert drivers in order to increase yielding compliance at pedestrian crosswalks. Leap Frog wireless between poles installs in a fraction of the time of anything else available on the market today at a small fraction of the cost.
The system, which uses LoRa long-range communications and draws very little power, can be adapted for dense urban corridors as well as remote rural walkways with both solar and AC-powered options. ATMOS remote monitoring means operators never have to go on-site to check status, battery health, or device behavior. Sources cited by the FHWA, TRB, and NACTO indicate that RRFB installations can increase yielding from 14% to 96%, improve visibility by more than 40%, and decrease pedestrian crashes nearly by half, a reason why this technology is quickly becoming commonplace in school zones, multi-lane crosswalks, and mid-block crossings.
Wireless technology should eliminate barriers. We’re building reliable, scalable, and intelligent connectivity that makes smart cities, agencies, and critical infrastructure safer and smarter. — Peter V., CEO
The school zone platform is grounded in a similar philosophy. The Harmony system is an integrated solution in which contact closure hardware, Harmony Gateway devices, the Cellular Gateway Panel, SBX Remote I/O, IP I/O8, and the Gateway E Lite 450 together allow scheduling, monitoring, for misuse of emergency override to be controlled centrally. They don’t throw out existing infrastructure; ENCOM stitches it together. The same bridging concept fuels the serial migration line. When municipalities upgrade from serial to Ethernet, equipment like the iPulse S can help with this slow, affordable process by tunneling LAN data across 900 MHz radios that are frequency-hopping secure in use today. The Pulse S modem card offers long-range communication, multi-protocol, and secure AES 128-bit encryption. The Pulse S modem card is plug-and-play with ATC 2070 controllers.
For video and high-bandwidth telemetry that agencies must handle, the company’s proprietary Energy broadband platform goes up to 866 Mb/s with Energy broadband radios, E Lite options, or offering the E Lite 900 option (using the COFDM modulation for added robustness in noisy radio environments). Built-in PoE passthrough in these radios reduces the need for extra equipment, easing deployments by powering cameras directly. For a field-proven M2M and IoT solution for teams planning cellular deployments, the SKYSTREAM LTE provides an industrial-grade carrier-approved platform.
All of this is tied together by way of ENCOM’s Software ecosystem. ATMOS Introduces Cloud-Based Network Control And Visualization. Stratos Elite and Stratos I/O facilitate installation, optimization, and quick troubleshooting. Diagnostics, configuration, and commissioning are performed by PulseLink and ControlPak.
ENCOM Wireless solves real-life operational headaches that transportation and safety teams face every day. While infrastructure keeps moving toward connected and remotely monitored field systems, ENCOM is one of the top wireless innovators to keep an eye on in 2025-26, defining what future-proof public safety/mobility networks will be.