Local control
During the development of our vehicle mounted VMS, also known as Autodrip, our main focus was the user safety. Road supervisors are usually first to arrive to a road accident, when the situation is often perilous. To enhance the safety of road supervisors innovative functionalities are developed for their vehicles. Wireless techniques enable the road supervisor to quickly position their vehicle and move to safe distance from the accident zone.
Increase safety during incident management
When a sudden traffic incident happens a road supervisor will be the first to re-organise the traffic. Nevertheless, incident management is mostly done with simple traffic cones and barriers, which do not inform approaching motorists in advance and could therefore cause dangerous situations.
EBO van Weel aims to increase the level of safety for both the motorists and the road supervisors. Therefore, the vehicle mounted VMS enables the road supervisor to avoid hazardous circumstances by making a traffic incident visible from 500 metres in advance. Informed by a full-colour display with animated traffic signs and text, approaching motorists will be warned beforehand.
All functionalities controlled with one application within 100 metres of the vehicle
For safety reasons it is absolutely necessary for road supervisors to leave their vehicle as soon as they arrive at a traffic accident. With this in mind, EBO van Weel developed the Autodrip app, which is available for IOS, Android and Windows tablets and can control all functions of the Autodrip like the emergency beacons, lift-unit and LED display within 10 seconds. This is possible within 100 metres of the vehicle. Therefore, with this app it is not necessary for the road supervisors to be in their vehicle, which significantly decreases the chance of a collision with a road supervisor.
Every second counts
In order to increase the safety and serviceability for the road supervisor even further, dual control can optionally be installed. Thanks to a collaboration with Marelko Benelux, the GO112 touch panel can be installed on the vehicle’s dashboard. The main advantage of this touch panel for emergency services is that the most essential warnings can be activated while driving.
The touch panel is placed on the left hand side of the steering wheel, out of the inspector’s field of vision. The emergency beacon, VMS and other functionalities can be operated within seconds, so the road inspector does not lose his concentration on the road and the dangers ahead.
Warn road users via navigation and app
EBO van Weel, in collaboration with Flister and Flitsmeister, has created an API platform with which automatic warning messages can be generated for stationary road supervisor’s vehicles.
When the road inspector is in a dangerous situation, a GPS position is automatically transmitted to the servers of Traffic Fleet and Flister. The notification is registered and processed into a traffic information message. This message is then retrieved by various traffic applications, including Flitsmeister. These applications then warn the motorists that are approaching the dangerous object in advance. This technology makes the work of road supervisors much safer.
