HAND OPERATED PRODUCTS

09/05/2007

Roughometer II

Low cost pavement profiling system

The Roughometer delivers objective and repeatable road roughness results in a cost effective, rugged and portable device.

The Roughometer removes the guesswork in determining ride quality and provides a practical, easy-to-use, portable method of assessing road quality.

The system is quickly and easily fitted to almost any vehicle and is simple to operate.

Designed for both sealed and unsealed roads, the Roughometer is a state-of-the-art alternative to bump integrator devices and an affordable alternative to laser profiling equipment.

Road Management Applications

Planning schedules: objectively compare and analyse which roads are in most/least need of repair.
Develop and maintain a specific road roughness level which can be used to indicate when grading/works are required.
Monitoring the development of roughness: deterioration trends can be examined by reviewing successive survey results spaced over several months.
Compare the performance of materials, equipment and crews, as well as monitor the impact of traffic on road quality.
Addressing complaints: provides objective data for true evaluation of the roughness level of the road.

Features and Benefits

Fast return on investment; a fraction of the cost of a laser profiling system or an equivalent survey service
Easy to install in most vehicles and simple to operate
Accuracy and repeatability is maintained with various vehicle types, suspension, passenger loads and survey speeds
Innovative axle-mounted inertial sensor (non contact) used to determine road profile, roughness & distance
Data is collected in a rugged and portable hand-held controller; no computer required in the vehicle
Outputs in International Roughness Index (IRI) or NAASRA
Data is easily transferred to an office or laptop computer

Reports available as detailed tables, graphs or GPS maps and can be exported to CSV files for use in a spreadsheet

Accurate distance (chainage) and GPS positioning (optional)
Applications

Ideal for Local government / councils, State Forestry and those responsible for maintaining low volume roads

Walking Profiler G2

Precision profiling instrument

The Walking Profiler G2 is an efficient, accurate and precise instrument for collecting and presenting continuous paved surface information, outputs include: Distance, Profile, Grade and International Roughness Index (IRI). The WP G2 meets World Bank Class 1 Profilometry requirements.

This compact and easy to use device is accepted by PIARC (2002), FHWA (2000) and TxDOT (2000) as a reference tool for the calibration of roughness measuring equipment.

The WP G2 samples the pavement surface at a walking pace. The built-in data acquisition module collects and stores the data while displaying the results in real-time.

The WP G2 is supplied with Footworks software, which is a fully featured data processing and reporting package. Reporting utilities are available for International Roughness Index (IRI), California Profilograph (CP) emulation and Straight Edge (SE) simulation.

Applications

Provides accurate measurements of true profile, grade and level
Reference tool for calibrating and assessing high speed profilers
Suitable for many surfaces, including: Paved roads and footpaths, Airfields and runways, Building slabs, Sporting surfaces, Bridges, Carparks etc.
Features and Benefits
A custom data acquisition module with high visibility LCD screen
Operates in bright sunlight and is backlit for operation in poor light
Simple 5 button operation with a user-friendly touchscreen that controls all setup and survey functions
Light weight device is easily transported
Extended operation from rechargeable battery
(>8 hours operation)
Easy snap-in snap-out battery replacement
Easy on-site setup procedures that minimise startup times