Benefits of New-age Transportation Asset Monitoring
IIoT-driven terrestrial technologies can be used to monitor the resilience of transportation infrastructure to mitigate the cost and risks of extreme asset condition events driven by climatic changes, natural disasters, usage behaviours, quality of material and human-made events like vandalism, accidents or terrorism. The need for a proper technology-based monitoring system is highly demanded because of the financing constraints in instituting and maintaining a plethora of asset types in a 125,000 KM footprint. Transportation assets include highways, subways, tunnels, bridges, transportation furniture, culverts, signs, footways, bollards, gullies and drains, PWOW, retaining walls, and more.
The two main aspects that are embedded to facilitate transportation infrastructure inspection, assessment and diagnosis are IIoT-driven CCTV fleets and remote laser sensing technologies. With the proper utilisation, these technologies can facilitate automated infrastructure monitoring following a myriad of benefits, such as:
- Create reliable budgets for transportation asset upkeep
- Fully automation of transportation asset infrastructure monitoring
- Get a holistic view of the total life cycles costs of the entire transportation systems
- Get a shared point of information about the conditions of all assets instituted in expansive systems
- Identify the hidden patterns of degradation in transportation assets
- Insights generated by these technologies can be elaborated in a realistic Digital Twin Models
- Integration with smart technologies like AI and ML models
- Learn impending risks and conditional and/or structural failure of transportation assets
- Reduce risk vulnerability and detrimental impacts from hazardous events
- Strengthen actionable plans to maintain and overhaul transportation assets
IIoT-driven Laser Inspection and CCTV Fleet Management
Asset Condition Inspection Using Laser Technology
3D laser sensor technologies have contributed greatly in optimising the road crack and rut measurements technologies via sensor-based pavement inspection. This technology can be applied to any type of road (hot mix asphalt, porous pavement, chipseal, standard concrete, tined concrete or more). It streamlines crack and ravelling data to enable enough data to analyse the condition of road assets for more than 10 years ahead. It does not only detect cracks but based on the shape, length, height and width of the damaged area; it can comprehend the type of damage, allowing transportation assets to manage the ultimate tool to evaluate road conditions. This technology can be equipped in movable machines or vehicles in collaboration with CCTV capabilities for faster technology application.
Laser technologies maximise the recovery of road maintenance funds and upkeep the condition of transportation assets based on detailed and updated data about the health and performance of the transportation structures. This technology is fully automated, thus cutting down labour costs and inspection completion time in a greater deal. Auto synchronising laser inspection has a plethora of advantages; like:
- Automates all recurring actions in road inspection processes
- Has the capability to inspect over 100 LCMS (Laser Crack Measurement System) units ensuring reliability in relying on laser-driven technologies in road condition inspection
- In accumulating the right conditional and structural data from any type of transportation network despite their complexity or elasticity
- Longitudinal profiling can meet its optimal standards with laser-driven transportation asset condition monitoring tools
- Reports noteworthy road structural inefficient like uneven road elevations, horizontal cross falls, water entrapments, slopes and more
- Surpasses almost all limitations in manual rating methods because when combined with AI-driven automated asset criticality models will help the user to isolate critical assets within just a few clicks
- The quality of being data-driven and objectives allows this technology to be more accurate, specific and quality in terms of extracting data
- Users can integrate laser data to a patented or organisation-specific tire bridging algorithm to capture and report road profiles in real-time conditions
- Can detect any type of road damage such as potholes, ravelling, cracking, rutting, macrotexture, root invasion, shoving, upheaval, depressions and more
IIoT-driven CCTV Fleets
As the safety of vehicle driving is heavily impacted by the condition of the road surfaces, it is quintessential to ensure that road assets are in the best condition in all seasons, especially in winter. This is why many transportation asset managers must acknowledge the power of CCTV technology in ensuring the optimal structural and conditional states of expansive road assets. The use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Systems in traffic control and anti-icing systems is known by many transportation service enabling centres. However, Smart CCTV systems optimised with IIoT technology enormously facilitates transportation asset condition monitoring.
This technology allows road asset operators to visually analyse footage of the pavement and surface condition of roads and upload footage to a shared private cloud for further analysis. The technology is boosted with laser, sensor and IIOT technologies to integrate the condition diagnosis of all roads to understand total lifecycle cost, impending risks and damages of the surface of the road assets; CCTV Fleets allow the road asset inspecting process to be simple, accurate and faster because it brings the ease of automating the end of inspection processes in transportation networks. This technology facilitates the transportation industry in several aspects following a plethora of benefits, including:
- Visual data extracted by CCTV Fleets can be integrated with existing IT infrastructures
- Automates road assessment process from end to end
- Can get the aid of multiple calibrated cameras in expansive networks because event more than 1000 smart cameras can be integrated using IIoT
- Can advance with infrared laser line projectors for precision asset condition assessments
Cerexio Offers The Best Transportation Asset Monitoring Technologies
Cerexio Smart and Integrated Asset Solutions for Transportation inherit Smart Remote CCTV and Laser Equipment Technologies to control and optimise the road asset inspecting efforts of any complex road network. This technology-enabled fully automated IIoT-driven fleets to utilise LiDAR laser and smart CCTV machines to automatically scan the surface condition index and pavement condition index. The footage captured by these machines is then uploaded to a private cloud which can be accessed by the permitted parties only. Later the footage will be analysed using smart visual analytics tools, and the road asset diagnosis reports will be printed within a few minutes, including information about the number of damages, types of damages, the criticality of the assets and the remaining usable lifetime of the asset. Another advantage of Cerexio’s IIoT-driven Laser Inspection and CCTV Fleet Technologies is that they empower realistic visual monitoring capabilities by feeding asset conditional and structural data to digital models and simulation platforms to gain hands-on experiences in understanding the sturdiness and durability of transportation assets. Therefore, Cerexio remains as the out-front transportation asset monitoring technology enabler in all of Asia. Connect to learn more.
