Introduction to road weather monitoring systems

The role of road weather monitoring system in highway construction is very important, and it is a new type of automatic weather station established on the basis of road weather service. It can not only realize real-time observation of road weather conditions and driving environment, but also provide road condition information for drivers' reference. With the development of China's highway business, as well as the enhancement of people's safety awareness, more and more people begin to pay attention to highway traffic safety. In order to reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents and improve the safety coefficient of automobile drivers, we should pay attention to the monitoring of highway weather.

Adverse weather is a major factor affecting highway safety, especially in winter rain and snow, which is more likely to cause accidents. Therefore, it is especially important to build a complete set of highway weather monitoring system along the highway.

Highway meteorological monitoring system adopts comprehensive collection and control technology, computer software technology, communication technology and other technologies, which can carry out real-time monitoring of visibility; wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, rainfall; road surface condition and other meteorological elements, and visualize the results in the form of charts. In this way, the weather conditions can be understood in time, which is convenient for taking preventive measures and guaranteeing driving safety.

Highway meteorological monitoring system includes three major components: hardware part, software part, and data storage and transmission system, it needs to be installed in a fixed place and has certain maintenance cost.