What is the Tunnel Simulator?
The tunnel simulator is our proprietary tool that has been developed to virtually recreate a real tunnel in three-dimensional technology. The solution allows you to simulate events and their consequences that may occur in a real tunnel. The software runs in a web browser and has a convenient graphical interface.
Event simulation
Our solution will reflect the conditions that prevail in the tunnel and the devices that can actually be there. It has the ability to simulate the image from cameras, information that is displayed on variable message signs and to simulate the control of signaling devices, induction loops, ventilation and power supply.
Additionally, it can recreate other objects that may be on the road at that time. Including cyclists or other vehicles that may generate incidents such as fire, smoke, stopping, driving against the current.
Operation
The simulator has its own tool for entering and changing simulation parameters, independent of the SCADA Tunnel Management System (PCS). The simulation can be triggered automatically, both from the user’s software side and from the side of the Tunnel Management System.
The 3D simulator creates a simulation by running appropriate scripts or by manually triggering a single event, e.g. a vehicle fire in a tunnel. On the other hand, the simulation created from the side of the Tunnel Management System (PCS) takes place by starting the procedure by the operator. This procedure has the same effect on the response of equipment in the tunnel.
User-friendly interface
Observations of the occurring events
Simulation of any objects
Checking the correctness of communication protocols
Verification of the operation of the Tunnel Management System
Benefits
- providing a virtual test environment for procedures implemented in tunnels,
- the ability to verify the correctness of procedures implemented in tunnels,
- graphical presentation of the effects of running procedures and events occurring in tunnels,
- optimization of the implemented procedures of response to events in the tunnel,
- reducing the cost of testing procedures before their implementation in the tunnel by:
- simulating events,
- simulating the movement of vehicles in the tunnel,
- the ability to test procedures,
- testing the reaction of vehicle traffic to the incident and launched procedure,
- shortening the time of testing procedures before their implementation,
- obtaining precise information on the reaction to the modification of procedures implemented in the tunnel.
