Patent ID: 8587453

Claim:
A portable traffic signaling system comprising: a plurality of portable traffic signals, each of the portable traffic signals including: a plurality of traffic lights; a stand, coupled to the plurality of traffic lights, the stand having legs that fold for transport and unfold for deployment; a short range wireless traffic signal transceiver that communicates bidirectionally via a short range wireless communication link; a traffic signal memory; a traffic signal processing module, coupled to the plurality of traffic lights, the short range wireless transceiver, and the memory, that controls the operation of the plurality of traffic lights, based on first control data, to at least: a stop condition, and a go condition; and at least one traffic sensor that generates passage data that indicates passage of a vehicle past a corresponding one of the plurality of portable traffic signals and wherein the corresponding one of the plurality of traffic signals includes an audible alarm device that is activated via alarm data and wherein the corresponding traffic signal processing module generates the alarm data to activate the audible alarm device when the passage data indicates the passage of the vehicle past the corresponding one of the plurality of portable traffic signals concurrently when the corresponding one of the plurality of portable traffic signals is in the stop condition; and a remote control device that includes: a remote control memory; a remote control processing module, coupled to the memory, that generates second control data; and a short range wireless remote control transceiver, coupled to the processing module, that transmits the second control data to the plurality of portable traffic signals via the short range wireless communication link; wherein the first control data is generated by each traffic signal processor, based on the second control data.