• DocumentCode
    3025852
  • Title

    In Field Application of an Innovative Sensor for Monitoring Road and Runway Surfaces

  • Author

    Mesin, Luca ; Troiano, Amedeo ; Pasero, Eros

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Electron., Politec. di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    18-25 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    157
  • Lastpage
    161
  • Abstract
    Water and ice detection over road and runway surfaces is important to improve traffic safety and to reduce maintenance costs. An innovative low cost capacitive sensor was endowed with an algorithm based on the time derivative of the measured capacitance to indicate the transitions between dry, wet, or icy state of road and runway surfaces. The sensor was investigated theoretically and validated with experiments on field.
  • Keywords
    accident prevention; air traffic; capacitance measurement; capacitive sensors; ice; road safety; road traffic; water; capacitance measurement; capacitive sensor; ice detection; road monitoring; runway surface monitoring; traffic safety; water detection; Capacitance; Electrodes; Frequency measurement; Ice; Roads; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Capacitive sensor; ice and water detection; road and runway information system;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Sensor Device Technologies and Applications (SENSORDEVICES), 2010 First International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Venice
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7474-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SENSORDEVICES.2010.36
  • Filename
    5632198