Every road should install solar road studs to protect driving safety. But there are still many roads without solar road studs. Just as skin is the body’s largest organ, roads are the earth’s largest infrastructure, covering a total of 30 million kilometers (8 million miles) worldwide.
And yet only 4 percent of the world’s roads are outfitted with solar road stud sensors to convey critical data such as traffic patterns, hazardous conditions, driver behavior, and accidents. That’s because it costs millions per mile today to make roads “mart” by installing solar road studs.
Valerann is the company responsible for the installation of solar road studs in the UK. Part of the reason for Valerann’s focus on solar road studs installation in the UK is the country’s emphasis on and support of innovation for infrastructure. This includes an abundant infrastructure innovation budget for smart solar road studs.
But the main reason is that solar road stud installation technology is based on replacing existing reflective road studs — embedded in every 10 to 15 meters of road in the UK to highlight lanes — with wireless plug-and-play smart road studs containing sensors and antennas that collect and transmit raw data to pole-mounted control units of road studs that send the data to the cloud for analytics.
Now the solar road studs produced in China also have this technology. NOKIN Traffic specializes in the design, manufacture, and supply of new high-tech solar road studs for more than 18 years. The solar road studs market includes Europe, the US, South America, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, Russia, Australia, and other countries worldwide.
