VIOTEL SMART Barrier Wire Rope Barrier Real Time Monitoring System User Manual
- June 3, 2024
- VIOTEL
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VIOTEL SMART Barrier Wire Rope Barrier Real Time Monitoring System
Wire rope barrier real-time monitoring system
The Challenge
With many 100’s to 1000’s of kilometres of wire rope barriers installed on
regional road networks, maintaining the effectiveness of safety barriers is
proving challenging for road authorities. Operationally these barriers are
demanding more management time and maintenance effort.
Flexible barriers need ongoing repairs and maintenance, such as checking the
tension of wire rope barriers to ensure that they perform as expected.
VicRoads estimates that unrepaired barriers can be up to 34 per cent less
effective at reducing serious injuries and fatalities.
Manual inspection and testing require implementing extensive lane closures
with attendant traffic management. Notionally, flexible safety barriers
(should currently) receive:
- Drive-by visual inspections according to arterial Road Management Category as defined in the Road Management Plan – daily to weekly or fortnightly.
- A reactive inspection or repair after an enquiry or report of damage or a collision.
- A regular (Level 1) visual and cable tension and bolt check and adjustments (one or two years apart according to manufacturer’s guidance).
- In some jurisdictions, a 10-year detailed visual assessment for corrosion, tension check, bolt check and any running repairs or replacement parts.
Gaining greater insight into the status of wire rope barriers is crucial to
improving maintenance management, but traditional manual and siloed processes
are unable to provide the detail necessary to enable this on a regional
network level.
Real-time monitoring and data aggregation platforms that provide region or
state-wide reporting
on conditions on transport infrastructure are increasingly being viewed as a
requirement to meet oversight requirements under tightening maintenance
standards and increased stakeholder focus.
Critical to the effective maintenance and management of wire rope barriers is ready access to real-time information such as:
- Barrier Location
- Operating Wire Tension
- Time, date and location of vehicle impacts
- Loss of Tension
- Maintenance Response Time
Our Solution
A Viotel SMART Barrier network can reduce the numbers of manual inspections
and tension checks, improve triaging and scheduling of maintenance, reduce
delays from major damage, minimise disruption and safety risks to workers and
the public.
SMART Barriers advise network operators when cable tension warrants inspection
or an impact has damaged posts, but the barrier remains effective. They record
response rates and help provide accurate records of impacts.
The Viotel SMART Barrier monitor is a safe, self-contained sensor pack which
is discrete, simple to install and calibrate, powered without large
conspicuous solar power facilities and with analysis power deployed in an app
accessing internet-based data, transforms a barrier from a disconnected
unintelligent asset to a networked live data device. It can:
- measure cable tension over time
- alert the presence of an impact and the location and time
- advise of environment conditions and the impact on tension and conditions at crashes
- provide an auditable record of maintenance response time in restoring barrier functionality
Benefits
- Real-time monitoring, reporting and vehicle impact alerting functionality that can facilitate reduce emergency response times and improved barrier effectiveness throught timely maintenance.
- Eliminate unnecessary manual inspections and thereby reduce lane closures and traffic management costs.
- Provide auditable data on barrier location and condition. Analytics capability to assess barrier maintenance effectiveness, vehicle impact frequency and location, maintenance response times.
- The Viotel SMART Barrier system can be integrated with existing asset management systems and IoT platforms.
- Subscription based SAS type model with reduced up-front deployment cost.
Features
Viotel’s SMART Barrier harnesses ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’ technology and features a barrier mounted sensor and telemetry device, which streams real- time data to the Cloud hosted via Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SMART Barrier sensor unit is self-contained with a long-life battery and micro solar panel charger. Our devices as quick to install using basic hand tools and require no wired connections.
Viotel SMART Barrier Sensor
- Small, light, discrete but robust device, securely and readily mounted to a barrier.
- Built in GPS location.
- Seismic sensors & strain gauges detect tension changes and vibration in the cables.
- Provides real-time feed of information to operators via a smartphone app (as part of IoT), alerts associated with potential impacts on the barrier.
- Installed and calibrated quickly on-site.
- Solar powered, self-contained, designed to be set and forget for up to 5 years.
- Undergoing advanced product research and development – up to prototype number 3.
Vehicle impact alerts can be sent to mobile phones/email of emergency response
maintenance personnel and asset managers.
Our SMART Barrier system provides data reporting and interrogation dashboards
and data analytics via AWS. The Viotel SMART Barrier system is configurable to
other IoT platforms and dashboard reporting systems.
Data are stored within the station and also streamed to the cloud using either mobile phone/data (low-power CatM1) or LoRa networks. Viotel’s cloud platform has been built in partnership with Amazon Web Services, using high security certificate exchange to validate connections and encrypted data flows.
About Viotel
Our mission is to empower businesses with better data for better decisions. At
Viotel we believe knowledge is power and understand the critical role data
plays in managing risks, identifying opportunities and protecting business
assets. Using ‘plug and play’ Smart Box technology, coupled with the power of
Amazon Web Services, Viotel has created a data ecosystem. We believe in making
smart technology smarter.
By continually investing in new technology and collecting and analysing data
in real time, our cutting- edge solutions empower businesses to identify cost
savings, increase productivity, streamline maintenance, increase OHS, monitor
assets from any location and respond faster to emergencies.
Viotel currently have operations support in Australia and New Zealand.
Bob Gregg
0418 796 040
[email protected]
Karl Crittenden
0474 056 422
[email protected]