Equipment

Inertial Profiler

Definition

A vehicle-mounted device that measures road surface roughness (IRI) using accelerometers and lasers. Road Triage Enterprise integrates with SSI inertial profilers for FHWA-certified IRI data.

In context

An inertial profiler mounted on a vehicle measures roughness at highway speed.

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