Visibility Weather Station
The Coastal visibility station is designed to measure true visibility and control signs that alert the motorist to the conditions ahead.
Actual visibility is measured regardless of the source of the inhibiting medium (fog, snow, dust, sleet, rain, hail, smoke, etc.) Coastal surface sensors may also be incorporated into the system to monitor for ice, snow or wetness of the road surface. At the core of the system is our ZENO® 3200 RPU, monitoring visibility and, optionally, road surface conditions.
Because of its rugged design and low power consumption, this powerful weather station can be located in remote environments. A wide varity of visibility sensors or present weather condition sensors may be used with this system. For a list of possible measured road conditions see the Surface Sensor page. For a list of possible monitored weather conditions see the RWIS station page.
The visibility station can be completely self contained, reporting locally, or it can report all of its activity to the central DOT or other office. The activity of the system can also be remotely overridden using telemetry.
A sketch of a typical system controlling several different sign types is shown below:
Modes of Telemetry:
Coastal Environmental Systems employs many different ways to get the data from the remote RWIS weather station back to the central site including:
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For complete information on Coastal's weather stations, please contact us.
