Design and prototyping of wireless sensor nodes for non-contact road-level climate monitoring

Pasquale Daponte, Luca De Vito, Francesco Picariello, Sergio Rapuano, Ioan Tudosa
Abstract:
This paper aims to present two sensor node prototypes designed to collect information about roadlevel climate. These prototypes are part of a Wireless Active Guardrail System (WAGS). One node was designed to perform multi-sensor measurements, which can provide information about the road surface state, such as dry, wet or iced. The second node was developed to provide a quantitative estimation of visibility grade in presence of fog. In the paper, the detailed hardware structures, the sensing mechanisms and several on-field tests are described and discussed.
Keywords:
guardrail, embedded systems; road safety; wireless sensor network; environmental monitoring
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Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC4
Event name:
TC4 Symposium 2014
Title:

20th IMEKO TC4 Symposium on Measurements of Electrical Quantities (together with 18th TC4 International Workshop on ADC and DCA Modeling and Testing, IWADC)
"Research on Electrical and Electronic Measurement for the Economic Upturn"

Place:
Benevento, ITALY
Time:
15 September 2014 - 17 September 2014