Blogs and cases
Blogs and customer cases
How Calderdale Council reduced salt use on marginal winter nights
- Road weather
The client: Calderdale Council Vaisala solution: Xweather Horizon Road Weather Station RWS200 GroundCast and TempCast THE CHALLENGE: Complex...
How Transport Infrastructure Ireland built an advanced road weather network
- Road weather
The client: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Vaisala solution: RWS200 Maintenance and help-desk services GroundCast TempCast Xweather Horizon...
Innovation & automation cuts road salt use in half
- Road weather
The results of the pilot were astounding: Bucher Assist, integrated with real-time road weather data, cut the use of salt by an average of 53%...
Case studies: safer roads with less salt
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
The client: City of West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. Vaisala solution: Vaisala Mobile Detector MD30 How a road maintenance organization in Iowa, U.S...
Innovative tech boosts winter road safety in Alabama
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How the Alabama Department of Transportation is gaining an edge in hard-to-predict locations with modern Vaisala technology The client: Alabama...
Everyday resilience on the roads
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Aberdeenshire Council gains road weather insights shire-wide with GroundCast and Wx Horizon. The client: Aberdeenshire Council Vaisala provided...
Safer driving through low visibility
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How the Arizona Department of Transportation created an automated speed limit system based on Vaisala PWD visibility sensors — the first of its...
Accurate road weather data from the most remote roads
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How Shetland is using Vaisala GroundCast sensors to save time and resources with their winter road maintenance The client: Shetland Islands...
Safer roads with less salt
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Rand McNally: Innovation and safety for all customers
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How Rand McNally is enhancing the road travel experience with weather APIs The client: Rand McNally Vaisala provided: Weather & Weather Map API...
Accurate road condition data for unpredictable weather
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How the City of Charlotte improved their winter road maintenance by integrating Xweather Horizon and Mobile Sensor MD30s. The U.S. City of...
Optimizing for better winter road maintenance in Sweden
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
Svevia is the leading road and infrastructure provider in Sweden, maintaining thousands of kilometers of roads. The organization has over 1,900...
Case Study: Smarter and brighter
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
See how combining Vaisala environmental sensors and Seak EV chargers in smart streetlights is helping one city measure air quality, get real...
Optimizing snow and ice removal in Japan
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
The Hokuriku region of Japan is known for its heavy snowfall, and clearing snow and ice from the expressways is one of the most important jobs...
Surrey, British Columbia: Better roads in any weather
- Meteorology
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How the City of Surrey improved winter road conditions for greater safety with real-time road condition information across the network Just...
Safer roads in any weather
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
How the Streets Department of the City of Fort Collins uses mobile sensors and data visualization to proactively and efficiently maintain the...
Using Vaisala RoadAI to improve rural surveys in Suffolk, U.K.
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
The challenge: Work within a limited budget, acquire more road data The county of Suffolk, which lies on England’s rural eastern coast, has been...
Innovation on the road: How the borough of Bexley is gaining efficiency with Road AI
- Meteorology
- Road weather
- Weather & Environment
The challenge: Improve road surveys, leverage more data Bexley is an outer London borough situated on the edge of Kent and maintains a...
Roads We All Drive On
- Road weather
For many years, municipal authorities have watched larger state, provincial, and ministry agencies purchase networks of road weather stations...
Vaisala offering helping hand to the hurricane-affected St. Maarten
- Aviation
- Meteorology
- Road weather
- Sustainability
- Weather & Environment
In 2017, over the course of a month, both the United States and Caribbean nations were affected by no less than four major hurricanes with wind...