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Weigh in Motion by Kistler

Weigh In Motion (WIM) systems are employed at an increasing rate throughout the world for
coping with the dramatically rising costs for maintaining the traffic infrastructure, and safety
of the road users. Accurate vehicle load data are vital for ensuring that highway systems
remain intact and safe.
Continuous overload detection is an important means for restraining overloading operators,
often more efficient than punctual enforcement actions. In view of traffic engineering WIM
data are useful to improve heavy traffic efficiency by weight-dependent speed or detour
route selection, as well as for protection of limited weight bridges and roads. Furthermore,
WIM data can be used to predict future traffic volumes for planning and new construction, for
the management of maintenance activities, as well as to identify locations or carriers with
frequent overloading problems.

Sensors
Kistlers Lineas sensors are piezoelectric force sensors responding only on vertical force.
When the force is applied on the top surface of the sensor, quartz crystals produce electric
charge proportional to the applied force. The signal is very high impedance electric charge,
which is not susceptible to electrical interference.
Lineas sensors are not effected by environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity
etc. And they possess very high dynamic range such that weight of a small vehicle is
measured as accurately as large overloaded Trucks.

Charge Amplifiers

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High impedance charge signals are amplified with MOSFET based charge amplifier and
converted to voltage output, which is connected to analysis system.

Inductive Loops

Inductive loops define the vehicle entry and exit from the WIM station. These signals are
used as triggering inputs to start and stop the measurement to initiate totaling gross vehicle
weight of each vehicle. For toll gate or low speed application, inductive loops may be
replaced with other types of vehicle sensors such as light curtains, axle sensors or
piezocables.

Measurement System

Highly dynamic measurement system from imc Mesysteme GmbH is programmed to

perform the calculations of the following parameters:
1. Axle distances
2. Individual axle weights
3. Gross Vehicle Weight

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4. Vehicle Speed
5. Distance between vehicles
6. GPS synchronized time stamp of measurement for each vehicle
All these parameters are calculated on the device itself and the device is designed to
operate without a computer attached to it. The data for each vehicle are stored on the
removable Flash drive on the device.
One measurement system can be connected with up to 4 traffic lanes (8 Lineas Sensors and
8 Inductive Loops) simultaneously, and process the data for each lane independently.
The measurement system is environmentally protected and has operating temperature of 20 to +85 C. The measurement systems are also designed to withstand condensation.

Data Archiving
Optionally, a WIM system connected with any available bandwidth can be connected to a
central monitoring server. We provide an automatic data archiving software to retrieve the
data from many remote WIM stations to be available for any further processing. A central
database can be build to link many WIM to a server for variety of monitoring and
enforcement purposes.

Features not available elsewhere:

Self-startonce the system acquires power, measurement is started without user

intervention.

Extended Temperature & Humidityenables road side installation in extreme

humidity conditions.

Remote Operationautomatic data transfer and archiving, making the system

completely independent.

Multi-triggeringindependent nested triggers make it possible to calculate each lane

data independently from the next.

GPSTime stamp on the data is very important to keep track of the vehicle data with
Traffic Camera systems.

Onboard DSPExtremely fast calculations with nested loops make it possible to do

the complicated calculations real time as each vehicle pass bywithout Computer at
site.

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WEIGHT IN MOTION (WIM) INTRO

Weigh-in-motion or weighing in motion (WIM) devices are designed to capture and record
axle weights and gross vehicle weights as vehicles drive over a measurement site. Unlike
static scales, WIM systems are capable of measuring vehicles traveling at a reduced or
normal traffic speed and do not require the vehicle to come to a stop. This makes the
weighing process more efficient, and, in the case of commercial vehicles, allows for trucks
under the weight limit to bypass static scales or inspection.

Road applications
Especially for trucks gross vehicle and axle weight monitoring is useful in an array of
applications including:

Pavement design, monitoring, and research

Bridge design, monitoring, and research

Size and weight enforcement

Legislation and regulation

Administration and planning

Weigh in motion scales are often used for size and weight enforcement, such as the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and
Networks program. Weigh-in-motion systems can be used as part of traditional roadside
inspection stations, or as part of virtual inspection stations.

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Recent years have seen the rise of several "specialty" Weigh-in-Motion systems. One
popular example is the front fork garbage truck scale. In this application, a container is
weighed -while it is ful- as the driver lifts, and again -while it is empty- as the container is
returned to the ground. The difference between the full and empty weights is equal to the
weight of the contents.
System basics
Sensors
WIM systems can employ various types of sensors for measurement. The most important
quantity to measure is the vertical force (z component) without any influence of forces in
other directions or speed of the vehicle that pass by. Force sensors with quartz crystals are
most rigid and measures only one direction along the vertical axis. When the force is applied
on the top surface of the sensor, quartz crystals produce electric charge proportional to the
applied force. The signal is very high impedance electric charge, which is not susceptible to
electrical interference.
Charge amplifiers
High impedance charge signals are amplified with MOSFET based charge amplifier and
converted to voltage output, which is connected to analysis system.
Inductive loops
Inductive loops define the vehicle entry and exit from the WIM station. These signals are
used as triggering inputs to start and stop the measurement to initiate totaling gross vehicle
weight of each vehicle. For toll gate or low speed application, inductive loops may be
replaced with other types of vehicle sensors such as light curtains, axle sensors or
piezocables.
Measurement system
Highly dynamic measurement system is programmed to perform the calculations of the
following parameters:
Axle distances, Individual axle weights, Gross Vehicle Weight, Vehicle Speed, Distance
between vehicles, and GPS synchronized time stamp of measurement for each vehicle
The measurement system should be environmentally protected and should have wide
operating temperature and withstand condensation.
Communications
Variety of communication methods need to be installed on the measurement system.
Modem or Cellular Modem can be provided. If no communication infrastructure exists, WIM
system can be self-operating while saving the data, to later physically retrieve it.
Data archiving
A WIM system connected with any available communication means can be connected to a
central monitoring server. Automatic data archiving software is required to retrieve the data
from many remote WIM stations to be available for any further processing. A central
database can be built to link many WIM to a server for variety of monitoring and enforcement
purposes.

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Rail applications
Weighing in motion is also a common application in rail transport. Known applications are:

Infracharging

Asset protection (imbalances, over loading)

Asset management

Maintenance planning

Legislation and regulation

Administration and planning

System basics
There are two main parts to the measurement system: the track-side component, which
contains hardware for communication, power, computation, and data acquisition, and the
rail-mounted component, which consists of sensors and cabling. Known sensor principles
include:

strain gauges: measuring the strain usually in the hub of the rail

fiber optical sensors: measuring a change of light intensity caused by the bending of
the rail

load cells: Measuring the strain change in the load cell rather than directly on the rail
itself.

laser based systems: measuring the displacement of the rail

Yards and main line

Trains are weighed, either on the main line or at yards. Weighing in Motion systems installed
on the main lines measure the complete weight (distribution) of the trains as they pass by at
the designated line speed. Weighing in motion on the mainline is therefore also referred to
as "coupled-in-motion weighing": all of the railcars are coupled. Weighing in motion at yards
often measure individual wagons. It requires that the railcar are uncoupled on both ends in
order to weigh. Weighing in motion at yards is therefore also referred to as "uncoupled-inmotion weighing". Systems installed at yards usually works at lower speeds and are capable
of higher accuracies.

Air applications
Some airports use airplane weighing, whereby the plane taxis across the scale bed, and its
weight is measured. The weight may then be used to correlate with the pilot's log entry, to
ensure there is just enough fuel, with a little margin for safety. This has been used for some
time to conserve jet fuel.
Also, the main difference in these platforms, which are basically a "transmission of weight"
application, there are checkweighers, also known as dynamic scales or in-motion scales.

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