Winter Road Maintenance

Winter Road Maintenance

Make confident, data-driven decisions and manage resources more effectively with accurate weather and surface condition observations, and observation enhanced road weather forecasts.
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Actionable insights for more efficient winter road maintenance

Winter weather is a threat to safe and efficient travel, and it can cause damage to road networks. To make informed road management decisions, you need effective monitoring solutions and timely access to accurate surface condition data and accurate road weather forecasts for snow and ice events.

Get actionable insights and experience confident proactive operations to deploy scarce resources efficiently, increase road mobility and reduce the environmental impact. Meet budgetary and performance metrics while increasing worker safety and decreasing their time spent on the road.

Vaisala TempCast

Highly accurate data when you need it the most

  • Ice or snow formation
  • Frost on bridges
  • Black ice or refreezing of moisture
  • Depth of water or snow
  • Friction or grip
  • Chemical concentration
  • The freeze point of surface
The hybrid approach to intelligent winter road maintenance

World-class sensors and forecasting deliver actionable insights

Vaisala offers a comprehensive suite of road weather solutions, including proven sensors and systems, IoT infill sensors, and mobile sensors. These can be combined to meet the unique needs and challenges of any road network, in a cost-effective way.

Our end-to-end solution combines data from all the local sensors with Vaisala's advanced road weather forecasting and intuitive visualization tools, delivering data-driven insights into both current and future weather conditions across your entire network.

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Revolutionizing Winter Road Maintenance with Dynamic Spreading

Revolutionizing Winter Road Maintenance with Dynamic Spreading

Optimize your road treatment strategy with cutting-edge dynamic spreading technology, powered by the Vaisala Mobile Detector MD30. Dynamic spreading takes salt application to a new level and the benefits are clear: enhanced road safety, cost efficiency and environmental sustainability.

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Products and Systems

Vaisala Ground Cast Sensor

Vaisala GroundCast

Whether you are just getting started or looking to cover some of the blind spots in your current observation network, Vaisala GroundCast provides the road weather measurements that matter the most.

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Vaisala TempCast

Vaisala TempCast

The new Vaisala TempCast, part of our Xweather family of subscription based products, is easy to install anywhere — even in places that have previously been challenging, such as on bridges.

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Mobile Detector MD30: Accurately collect and transmit data on road and runway surface state, grip, and surface temperature.

Mobile Detector MD30

This wireless, vehicle-mounted mobile detector collects and transmits precise road surface, air temperature, and weather data for runway and road applications.
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WxHorizon user interface on laptop screen

Xweather Horizon

Xweather Horizon delivers full awareness of current and future road weather conditions across your entire network.

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Vaisala Road Sensor DRS511: ensure safety and mobility for roadways and airports.

Road Sensor DRS511

Empower your maintenance operations with accurate, robust, reliable, and current road-surface data through this embedded road sensor.
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Wx Road Insights

Vaisala Wx Road Insights is a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) framework that provides accurate, reliable and consistent road weather data which can substantially change and improve your road maintenance practices.
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Success stories

Case

Safer roads in any weather

How the Streets Department of the City of Fort Collins uses mobile sensors and data visualization to proactively and efficiently maintain the city road network.

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Ready to see how Vaisala’s sensing technology can be put to work for you? We’re here to help! Please contact us and our industry experts will be in touch quickly to discuss your weather and environmental monitoring challenges.

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