Winter Road Maintenance

Act decisively to maintain safety, conserve resources, and minimize road and surface damage with Vaisala road condition monitoring solutions.

Enable Targeted Deployment of Resources, Safer Operations, and Data-Driven Decisions

Winter weather poses a threat to safe and efficient travel, and it causes costly damage to road and runway networks.

Vaisala road maintenance sensors and systems provide highly accurate weather and road condition monitoring data when it counts most. Our technology enables more strategic management and deployment of scarce resources, safer operations, and data-driven decisions during snow and ice events.

Move from reactive to proactive operations, increasing efficiency and improving safety
Conserve resources and deploy them more strategically where they are needed most
Meet budgetary and performance metrics while increasing worker safety and decreasing time spent on the road

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From Reactive to Proactive Operations

Learn the latest trends in winter road maintenance and road condition monitoring solutions to help your organization respond proactively.

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Products and Services

Wx Horizon

Wx Horizon is the only winter maintenance decision-support subscription software that gives you high-quality pavement forecasts, atmospheric forecasts, observations, and alert notifications all integrated from one company. So you can deliver a superior snow and ice management service.

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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 and road condition monitoring that matter the most.

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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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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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Mobile Detector MD30

Explore the MD30 sensor, trusted and deployed for many use cases around the globe.

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Road Weather Station RWS200

Vaisala's intelligent, reliable fixed environmental sensing station.

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Remote Surface State Sensor DSC211

Improve ground transportation efficiency and traffic safety with the Remote Surface State Sensor DS211 sensor from Vaisala.

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Road Sensor DRS511

The Road Sensor DRS511 from Vaisala enables you to collect real-time surface data that can be used to monitor road and runway conditions, optimize maintenance operations, and increase the effectiveness of surface treatments.

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RoadDSS Weather Manager

Complete set of tools that easily integrate with road weather measurement software and the road authority’s guidelines to provide treatment proposals, as well as a complete view of road weather data over time.

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Observation Network Manager NM10

Vaisala Observation Network Manager NM10 brings overall management of all your sites under one location, even if you’re dealing with a mismatched collection of equipment and software from more than one vendor.

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Resources

Product Spotlight

Vaisala Wx Horizon Pro

Bring actionable insights and predictions to your winter road maintenance.

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Infographic

Sustainable liquids strategies in winter road maintenance

At-a-glance insights on sustainable liquid usage strategies that matter most today.

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eBook

A New Season for Winter Road Maintenance

A look at 6 trends and technologies affecting winter operations today.

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Webinar

Leveraging Observations to Drive Improvement

Modern approaches to deploying observation technologies in winter road maintenance.

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Success stories

Svevia Optimizes for Better Winter Road Maintenance

SUCCESS STORY: Managing Swedish winters is made easier with Vaisala Winter Maintenance Decision Support.

Safer roads in any weather

SUCCESS STORY: 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.

Linking safety and efficiency across Latvian roads

Latvian State Roads oversees the entire road network for the country using Vaisala products, giving them visibility into winter road weather conditions.

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