Wireless Active Guardrail System for environmental measurements

Author

De Vito, Luca ; Cocca, Vincenzo ; Riccio, Maria ; Tudosa, Ioan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

28-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

57

Abstract

The paper presents the design and implementation of a Wireless Active Guardrail System (WAGS), that adds to the typical passive protection of guardrails the capability of monitoring both traffic and environment along the roads. The general overview of a WAGS, intended to be applied on highways, is presented and the measured quantities are discussed. The architecture of a sensor node for environmental monitoring experimentally validated in laboratory is presented and future improvements and features are suggested.

Keywords

air pollution measurement; environmental monitoring (geophysics); wireless sensor networks; Wireless Active Guardrail System; air pollutants; environment monitoring capability; environmental measurements; guardrail passive protection; sensor node architecture; traffic monitoring capability; wireless sensor networks; Atmospheric measurements; Monitoring; Pollution measurement; Roads; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless sensor networks; distributed measurement system; environmental measurements; guardrail; transportation safety; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS), 2012 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Perugia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2739-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EESMS.2012.6348403

Filename

6348403