Road weather conditions - for mobility and safety

Our road weather technology provides reliable weather and surface condition data to empower your winter road maintenance and management decision-making.

Unrivaled awareness

Vaisala’s weather and environmental technologies enable unrivaled road network awareness — keeping roadways safe and efficient in any season. Our solutions are informed by our 85+ years of innovating and have made us the gold standard for precision and reliability.

Our holistic approach provides customers with end-to-end simplicity, valuable partnership, and a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that are constantly evolving.

We are recognized experts in transportation, and we continue to channel our curiosity into new ways of making roadways safer and more efficient than ever.

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Solutions and products

Winter Road Maintenance

Meet the demands of winter road maintenance with data and insights so you can act fast. Conserve resources, improve efficiency and proactivity, and achieve greater safety in icy and snowy conditions.

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Traffic Management

Vaisala Weather & Environmental Monitoring for Traffic Management gives road authorities and traffic management system integrators the tools they need for comprehensive, real-time awareness of their road networks — in any season or situation.

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Xweather subscription services

Road Asset Management

Support maintenance decisions in your road network by automatically identifying and assessing assets such as pavement defects, signs, and lane markings condition.

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Automotive Weather

Automotive product developers depend on accurate weather and road condition data to constantly improve products. Vaisala’s solutions include highly reliable road weather to enhance your products’ safety and passenger comfort.

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Weather Data & APIs

Weather impacts all industries in some way or another. Get versatile, reliable weather data to improve your decisions, and experience safer, more efficient operations.

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Resources

eBook

Easy insights: Unlocking winter road maintenance in challenging areas

Explore how new technology makes it easier and more affordable to get highly accurate road weather data, and how the data feeds into a modern, hybrid road weather network that helps you achieve safer roads in less time.

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eBook

Hold the (road) salt

Discover how implementing tools and best practices can help you target treatments, measure their effectiveness, and leverage treatments with less environmental impact.

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eBook

Best practices for sustainable winter road maintenance

Salt is the most widely-used material for keeping roads safe during icy, snowy conditions. Today, sustainability is just as important. This eBook outlines best practices for sustainable winter road maintenance.

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Quick guide

Trouble spots no more

There are certain types of areas that may be challenging for road weather measurements. Here is a look at some of those locations and how new technology makes it easier and more affordable to get the information you need.

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Webinars

Webinar

Hold the (road) salt

Applying salt and other materials is essential for keeping roads safe in icy, snowy conditions. But determining the material and amount to use is a delicate balance.

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AI in Road Maintenance & Asset Management

From operational efficiency to greater speed and accuracy, experts weigh in on AI's industry impacts.

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Leveraging Observations to Drive Improvement

Modern approaches to deploying observation technologies in winter road maintenance.

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Success stories

Innovative tech boosts winter road safety in Alabama

How the Alabama Department of Transportation is gaining an edge in hard-to-predict locations with modern Vaisala technology.

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Safer driving through low visibility

How the Arizona Department of Transportation created an automated speed limit system based on Vaisala PWD visibility sensors — the first of its kind in the United States.

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Svevia Optimizes for Better Winter Road Maintenance

Managing Swedish winters is made easier with Vaisala Winter Maintenance Decision Support.

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Ready to see how Vaisala’s sensing technology can be put to work for you? We’re here to help! Please contact us and our industry experts will be in touch quickly to discuss your weather and environmental monitoring challenges.