The AIMS «MeteoRoute» is intended for providing the service of road
maintenance with timely specialized meteorological information.
The information provided by the system allows the road servicing
organizations to have reliable evidence on weather conditions and
their change and prepare in advance for dangerous phenomena and undertake
preventive measures using modern technologies for winter maintenance of roads.
Structure char AIMS «MeteoRoute»
Tasks
- Automation of the highway state control,
- Issuance of warnings about dangerous meteorological phenomena
at highways,
- Specialized forecast of winter slipperiness at highways
- Provision of users with operational meteorological
information and data on the highway cover state
Used data
- Data of the network of road weather stations (RWS),
- Data of the network of weather radars (WR),
- General forecasts of prognostic centers (CGMS),
- Video-images from a network of video-cameras.
Functions performed
- Measurement and issuance of meteorological information on
the state of the highway surface,
- Receiving and transmission of data using different types of
channels in the controlled mode,
- Control, processing, archiving and depiction of data of
the network of road weather stations (RWS) in the convenient
form (map, tables, plots),
- Depiction on the map of the current state of the highway
cover over the entire length if the thermal mapping database
is available,
- Issuance of warnings on dangerous meteorological phenomena
(winter slipperiness, precipitation) at the highways,
- Forecast of the highway cover state and temperature 4 hours
in advance based on a numerical model of the atmospheric boundary
layer using data of RWS network and thermal mapping,
- Transmission of warnings and other data in the form of
SMS – messages,
- Statistical data processing (recurrence of wind speed and
direction values, precipitation totals, number of transitions
across 0°С, etc.),
- Handling of information of weather radars (option) – map
of meteorological phenomena, amount of precipitation for a specific
period in the given territory.
Types of displaying information
AIMS «MeteoTrassa»
Plot for the current 24 hours
Depiction of the data archive
Completion
- Central system (installed at the road committees and other
management bodies) – customized software package (CSP), computer
with expansion cards, uninterruptible power supply source, modems
for communication with RWS and work stations, printer
- DRSU work stations (installed at the road maintenance
organizations) - CSP, computer with expansion cards, uninterruptible
power supply, modems for communication with the central system
and printer
- CGMS work station (installed at the hydrometeorological
centers) - CSP, computer with expansion cards, uninterruptible
power supply, modems for communication with the central system
and printer
- ROSA road weather stations of
Vaisala (Finland)
- Video-cameras.
Due to a flexible architecture it is possible to add different
components and expand the system.
Communication channels
- Dedicated communication line,
- Cellular communication of GSM 900/1800 standard,
- Ethernet with use of technologies packet data communication GPRS/EDGE.
Certificates
- Type Certificate
RU.C.28.001.A №53861 of 24.01.2014 of the Federal Agency
for Technical Regulation and Metrology
- Type Certificate
№ 446 of 16.08.2007 IAC
- Certificate
for the equipment manufacturers from 25.11.2014 № 212 IAC
Installations
As of 1 June 2017, 22 AIMS «MeteoRoute» were installed at
the highway management bodies of 12 subjects of the Russian Federation.