Speaker: Al Collins (Staff Engineer, Acquired Data Solutions Inc.)
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the Highway Loss Data Institute found that adaptive automotive headlights can significantly reduce accident rates after dark and designed a road course to test their effectiveness. The multicurve test track uses gates with arrays of light meters that measure forward and glare light at different heights. A CompactRIO system is used to correlate the measured headlight intensity with the vehicle's position and wirelessly transfer the data back to a central server. At this session, learn best practices for designing a distributed and portable CompactRIO-based measurement system using GPS time synchronization and wireless communication.
