Lufft adds 40 stations to Bavaria’s road weather network

First published in Intertraffic Innovation News - April 30, 2020

Lufft has strengthened the road weather monitoring network of Bavaria by building and supplying 40 new meteorological stations. Their operational area covers roads and highways all over Germany’s largest federal state.

The typical setup of such a station equipped with Lufft devices comprises an IRS31pro flush-mounted road sensor; a WS600 smart weather sensor mounted on a folding pole; a cabinet for electrics and communications, including a mobile telephony router; and a colour camera with infrared headlights. In total, the scope of the tender won in the summer of 2018 exceeds a volume of more than half a million Euros.

“We are very pleased to expand and consolidate our road weather station network,” says Bavaria’s Central Office for Road Maintenance Services. “Lufft’s sensors make an important contribution to the collection of road weather data, which is key to efficient decision making in critical weather conditions.” The vast majority of road weather stations in the network of federal and state roads in Bavaria has been provided by Lufft.”

With that, Bavaria’s winter maintenance management system can monitor plenty of meteorological parameters, including air temperature, pressure, and humidity, wind direction and speed, precipitation type and intensity. Furthermore, an invasive road sensor measures the road surface temperature, salt concentration and detects a water film height up to four millimetres.