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PAVE-Scanner, the Automated Roadway Pavement Analyzer system, that combines cutting edge hardware technology with high performance software solutions.

PAVE-Scanner

The FIRST 360-degree infrastructure and pavement surface inspection system available on the market 

The new PAVE-Scanner is the most tightly integrated tool for roadway operators and maintenance service providers to manage all aspects of urban and rural highway and bi-way conditions.

Coming from the full integration of the Pavemetrics LCMS vision system technology, onto the SITECO Road-Scanner hardware and software platforms, this system represents the state-of-the-art in cost effective, high performance infrastructure and pavement surface inspection systems.

HARDWARE

The Road-Scanner system is seamlessly integrated throughout the entire hardware implementation and software workflow, resulting in a totally turnkey commercial system.

The latest lidar sensors from FARO, Riegl, Velodyne, Zoller + Froelich (Z+F), among others, are fully supported for 3D infrastructure visualization and measurement.  
A wide variety of imaging cameras, including the popular Point Grey LadyBug 5 plus a choice of multiple discrete specialty cameras, are also a key part of the entire package.
Combined, the rich data and image information make an easy job of identifying and cataloging features in a flexible scalable database.

 SOFTWARE

The new PAVE-Scanner system has been developed together with SITECO’s dedicated PMS-SIT software suite for complete project planning, execution and data delivery, which can be applied for both road and airport pavements.
The post-processing software allows a fully automated production of all the georeferenced data sets: spherical imagery, point clouds, high resolution pavement 3d bit-maps, transverse profiles and rutting, longitudinal roughness IRI and Macrotexture data, cracking and other pavement defects geometry, PCI Pavement Condition Index according to ASTM standards for roads and airports.

Based on a GIS environment, the  PMS-SIT user interface provides the contextual consultation of all the data sets and a full control of the infrastructure maintenance status.

PMS-SIT is completely integrated in the software Road-SIT suite for the Road Information System which includes modules for the consultation of the georeferenced imagery and point clouds surveyed with Road-Scanner or other Mobile Mapping Systems. With this approach the pavement is managed as an infrastructure component (like bridges, tunnels, guardrails, sidewalks, right of ways, etc.).

Users can also define different catalogs of Maintenance Activities, organized according to different criteria: structural or functional type, global or localized extension, etc. Each activity is associated with its unit 

cost and the impact on the various indices. PMS-SIT allows the assignment of routine maintenance activities to the different infrastructure sections/areas, in order to analyze the activity costs and extend the life cycle of the airport paved surfaces. The activity assignment can be carried out directly in the GIS software or by filtering areas and sections through specific queries, identifying the priority criteria.

Users can also define different catalogs of Maintenance Activities, organized according to different criteria: structural or functional type, global or localized extension, etc. Each activity is associated with its unit 
cost and the impact on the various indices. PMS-SIT allows the assignment of routine maintenance activities to the different infrastructure sections/areas, in order to analyze the activity costs and extend the life cycle of the airport paved surfaces. The activity assignment can be carried out directly in the GIS software or by filtering areas and sections through specific queries, identifying the priority criteria. 

ACCREDITATION AND STANDARDS COMPLIANCE

A most important issue for all pavement inspection systems is compliance with internationally recognized standards and practices. SITECO brings it’s iRAP Accreditation Specification for the RAP-SR-2.3 Star Rating and ISO 9001-Vision 2000 certifications to join with Pavemetric’s NCAT certified AASHTO R56 compliant high speed profile sensors. The SITECO PMS-SIT software provides tools for detecting and inserting defects according to the ASTM D5340-12 and D6433/2003 international standards. Defects detected on the paved surface are organized in a hierarchical pavement grid map on 3 different levels: Branches, Sections and Sample areas. All defects can be detected from the imagery or imported from the Pavemetrics automatic Laser Cracking Management System (LCMS). 

Quoting our CEO's statement at the official system presentation:

“There has never been a commercially available mobile mapping system bringing all the benefits of the rigourous certifications to pavement inspection industry.” says Augusto Burchi, SITECO’s CEO. “This new Road-Scanner system development will greatly simplify the collection of qualified data according to internationally respected standards, reducing the time consuming testing work that survey service providers undergo today. The net result will be seen in cost savings over time.”