Salt Spreader Monitoring and Control VINTERMAN Salt Spreader Monitoring and Control Bo Sommer

Winter in Denmark… ~ 5-10 days with snowfall ~ 100 salting actions

The Danish Road Network Road Authorities Road Directorate (1,600 km) 13 Counties (10,000 km) 271 Municipalities (60,000 km)

Control and Monitoring A Winter Central Weather & forecasts Call-out Winter Central RWIS VINTERMAN Control and Monitoring Road Users Information

The Winter Central in Ribe

Online Spreaders

Action vs. reference - 1

The driver must always be able to override the automatic system GPS Controlled Spreading The spreader shall be able to act adequately by itself while the driver just follows the route Dosage settings, spreading width and spreading symmetry must be handled automatically The driver must always be able to override the automatic system

Why GPS Controlled Spreading Facilitate driving with a salt spreader Improved quality of the salting actions We would like to benefit from section based prognoses

Let’s get a movie on the computer…

GPS Controlled Spreading Winter 2004-05: 5½ Units 2 Counties 1 Municipality 1½ Product

GPS Controlled Spreading Winter 2005-06: 19 Units 6 Counties 2 Municipalities 3 Products

Benefits of GPS Controlled Spreading Salt ends more often where it should The driver can focus on driving -> Improves traffic safety Possibility to use section based prognoses in order to save salt -> Reduction of the environmental impact

Thermal mapping

software on office-side GPS Controlled Spreading Supplier specific software on office-side Vinterman Control information Monitoring information Supplier specific communication, e.g. GMS-GSM, GSM-ISDN or GPRS GPS

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