From the analysis of the data provided by the motorway radio rooms, arise that the overcrowding of service areas is a serious and shared problem, which goes well beyond the difficulties of accessing and managing spaces.

More often than one might think, congestions in the area put the motorist in a position to risk dangerous maneuvers for himself and for others; the danger is obviously aggravated if heavy vehicles are involved.

Heavy vehicles situation

There are frequent cases of trucks that, having taken the entrance ramp to the parking area, are forced to have to go out in reverse due to jams; other times, even if they manage to access, they are unable to stop and try to reach the exits but find them blocked by other vehicles. At this point they try to return to the highway in the wrong direction, directly from the entrance track, and then make very dangerous maneuvers to take the right direction on the roadway.

Some motorways are already equipped with systems that do not solve the problem: they merely dissuade from carrying out these maneuvers which, however, as mentioned above, are often necessary.

Softech IoT Solution

In partnership with A22 – Autostrada del Brennero, Softech has developed an ad hoc solution that aims to solve the problem simply by …preventing it!

The system, of which the experimentation has already started and almost completed, avoids the risk of saturation of the parking areas by monitoring them with a network of IoT sensors which, using the LoRa technology, allows to know the situation in real time; using dedicated software, the information is transmitted to the motorway radio rooms which can manage crowding by placing restrictions on access and / or by sending security personnel (traffic police) to the site.

The software can interface with third parties and communicate to commercial or not users, the situation of occupation of the parking areas; there are multiple communication channels that can be used: variable message panels, radio channels, applications for mobile devices, internet, etc.

The project was born in partnership with Autostrada del Brennero, a long-time user of our systems. For more information, contact us: marketing@softechweb.it or sales@softechweb.it