Icy Road Warning Systems
Our weather stations and road weather sensors provide the real-time reporting and tools to help make better decisions, improve traffic management and driver safety.
Automated Icy Road detection and advanced Warning
Icy Road Warning Systems by High Sierra Electronics reduce accidents by automatically monitoring and detecting hazardous road surface conditions and providing advance warning to motorists.
Sleet, hail, blowing and drifting snow, freezing rain, and fog can all contribute to icing roads and making conditions hazardous for motorists and pedestrians. Drivers are often unprepared and caught unaware of slick pavement conditions and fail to adjust their driving speed in adverse road and weather conditions.
1,836 DEATHS
ON AVERAGE ANNUALLY IN THE U.S. DUE TO
ICY ROAD CONDITONS
136,309 INJURIES
ON AVERAGE ANNUALLY IN THE U.S. DUE TO
ICY ROAD CONDITIONS
156,164 CRASHES
ON AVERAGE ANNUALLY IN THE U.S. DUE TO
ICY ROAD CONDITONS
Real-time Monitoring and Alerting
Our integrated sensors and real-time monitoring systems can automatically activate flashing beacons, warning signs, and dynamic messages to provide visual warning to drivers that there are icy road conditions ahead.
All sensor data are collected, stored, and analyzed centrally by Contrail® software for visualization and up-to-the-minute real-time information and data management. Customized alerts and notifications about changing weather conditions can be sent via e-mail, SMS, text messages.
Where Used
- Bridges and overpasses
- Freeway exit and entrance ramps
- Elevated roads
- Highways and surface streets
- Curved and shaded areas of a road
- Risk zones in open plains and on exposed highways
- Airport and runway surfaces
Contact us today to discuss your Icy Road Warning solution
StormLink® RWIS Lite
Packaged solutions that are easy-to-install and low maintenance. Ideal for local installations at low-volume rural and urban arterial roadways, transit routes, bridges, airport parking and pedestrian terminals.
StormLink® RWIS One
This solution provides sensor and system flexibility and can be fitted with the required sensors to collect crucial information to support prompt, intelligent decision making. Signage is industrial design and vandal resistant.
StormLink® RWIS Pro
Meets DOT and Federal Highway requirements. Suitable for high-capacity, high-volume, principal roadways, interstate highways, motorways, overpasses, bridges, airports … Multiple parameter sensing. Integrated ITS deployments, NTCIP protocol, integrates into existing systems.
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Warn drivers of potentially icy roads
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Reduce accidents by warning drivers with automated flashing beacons to slow down when weather hazards exist.
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Integrated cellular communication sends system data and status to software
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Increase situational awareness to better manage the roadway and reduce maintenance costs.
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No outside communication needed to activate the warning system
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Improve driver safety by letting the traveling public know of weather hazards when they happen.
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Get the system up and running quickly with simple installation.
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Remote system configuration
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Reduce trips to the site by adjusting system thresholds and configurations remotely from software.
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Two-way communications
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Reduce trips to the site with the ability to override the system beacons remotely from software.
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Email and text alerts of system status
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Address weather issues quickly and increase public safety with notifications of system status directly to any device.
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Ethernet and serial output
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Flexible communication options with third-party equipment and existing infrastructure.
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NTCIP open communications protocol
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Easily expand the system with any compatible systems and software suites.
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Complete RWIS sensor suite
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Increase situational awareness by collecting data from a full suite of road weather sensors for additional alarming capabilities and weather information.
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Local data logging
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Past system data can be downloaded locally if communication failed.
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COMPATIBLE WARNING TYPES:
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Icy road potential
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High wind warning
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Icy Road Warning Solutions
StormLink® RWIS One – Model 5409 Series
StormLink® RWIS Lite High Water Detection System – Model 5408 Series
StormLink® RWIS Lite Icy Road – Model 5408 Series
Intelligent Road Sensor – Model 5422
Mobile Surface Sentinel (Serial) Bundle
Mobile Surface Sentinel – Model 5436-15 (Serial)
Present Weather and Visibility – Model 5432
StormLink® RWIS Pro Datalogger – Model 5410
StormLink® 2-Way ALERT2 High Water Detection System – Series 3482
Non-Invasive Road Condition Sensor Service Plan – Model 5433-80
Wind Speed Wind Direction Sensor – Model 5712-00
RWIS Visibility Sensor – Model 5434
In-pavement Surface Temperature and Condition Sensor – Model 5721-01
Surface Sentinel Temperature Sensor – Model 5439-00
Mobile Surface Sentinel – Model 5436-10 (Bluetooth)
IceSight Non-intrusive Road Condition – Model 5433
Contrail for Road Weather – Series 8400