Road monitoring tehcnology

1169 Fugro Roadware says that its sophisticated Automatic Road Analyser (ARAN) data collection platform offers further functions with the development of the latest 9000 model. A product of two years of research and development, the new ARAN 9000 system has a 50% reduction in computing hardware over the previous model but offers the same functions, is fault tolerant, offers a plug and play system integration and uses a Windows-based operating system.

The new and more portable version features realtime sub-cm data synchronisation, sophisticated management software, interfaces in several languages, a user friendly operating system and a modular architecture supporting future upgrades. The latest version now features a database architecture with 1mm data synchronisation and comes with remote diagnostics tools. Designed for pavement management tasks, the ARAN system can determine longitudinal profile and roughness, transverse profile and rutting, surface macro texture and the surface distress rating. The equipment can also determine road geometry, edge drop-off, degree of curvature, radius of curvature and curve start and end coordinates. The system uses digital video technology and offers high resolution imagery with either single or multiple cameras and can log complete roadside asset inventories, while the data output can be formatted for subsequent import into a GIS or Asset Management software environment.

Fugro Roadware has installed the system in a Dodge Sprinter for its own fleet although the ARAN 9000 package can be installed on a range of different vehicles.