£88.4m project to trial technology on UK roads
An £88.4 million project will see Highways England owned assets being waged by the RedBite asset tool on the A160 Port of Immingham improvement scheme.
The new technology has been designed to improve the monitoring of highway equipment such as street lighting and drainage and is the first time it will be used in the UK. The system utilises Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Quick Response (QR) Codes and GPS tags. Data regarding the assets can be sent to a digital device such as a smartphone, which can alert the user to report faults.
Ben Ridgeon, project manager at Highways England, said: “Managing and tagging assets using intelligent software has many benefits, not only in recording the location of that equipment but, more crucially, in monitoring that asset in the future.
“With such heavy usage on our assets, wear and tear is inevitable. By using a system where we can record and maintain a large amount of data on a range of different equipment, we can improve accuracy on the condition of those assets.”
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