18/06/2015

This is Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras' 16th R&D+i project

Sacyr subsidiary Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras has developed an R&D+i project based on ICT technology that substantially improves road construction signage, with the resulting increase in road safety.

Funded by the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI), the project was developed in response to an outdated construction signage policy. Valoriza developed an innovative signage system to signal road construction based on OLED* technology.

Construction signage regulations establish a number of elements that must be signaled regardless of the specific characteristics of each project. Signs lose their meaning if displayed in a cluttered way, resulting in an information overload, and are thus unable to alert drivers of a real and/or isolated risk.

Easy to use once installed, the innovative signage system will be able to adapt to the particular conditions of each specific scenario and can be updated in real time to provide information about different traffic situations.

This system also includes highly accurate low-cost sensors that will detect vibration patterns made by vehicles, as well as those made by workers as they circulate or walk down the road, using these vibrations to generate the energy required to operate the road.

Valoriza Conservación de Infraestructuras has earned a name for itself as the sector leader in innovation and as one of the companies in Spain with the strongest investment in R&D+i, the result of the work developed by the R&D+i team: 23 lines of research grouped into 16 projects highly regarded by different governments, with overall funding totaling 8.5 million euros.

Valoriza Conservacion de Infraestructuras (VCI) is the Sacyr subsidiary specializing in the maintenance of road infrastructures (over 4,000 kilometers of road), dams, ports, irrigation canals and hydroelectric plants.

* OLED: An "Organic Light-Emitting Diode" is a diode in which the electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compound which generates and emits light in response to an electric current. OLEDs work without a backlight and thus require less energy, resulting in energy savings and better conservation of the environment.
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