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

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

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

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

5. The Winter Central in Ribe

6. Online Spreaders

7. Action vs. reference - 1

8. 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

9. 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

10. Let’s get a movie on the computer…

11. GPS Controlled Spreading
Winter :
5½ Units
2 Counties
1 Municipality
1½ Product

12. GPS Controlled Spreading
Winter :
19 Units
6 Counties
2 Municipalities
3 Products

13. 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

14. Thermal mapping

15. 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

16. Vinterman

17. Vinterman

18. Vinterman