IrisPRO Inertial Profiler

The IrisPRO profilers are in widespread use for both roads and airports. They are used by contractors for smoothness assurance and to compute “must grind” areas on new pavements. They are used by quality assurance personnel for warranty validation and for inspections. They are used by civil engineering firms for runway and taxiway smoothness analysis. They are used by departments of transportation to set benchmark (reference) data for validating other high speed equipment. They are used by service providers as part of network level condition survey vehicles.

Profile data makes so much more sense with GPS data. This is why all ICC profilers come standard with a Garmin GPS system, and the Hemisphere Atlas DGPS is available as an optional upgrade. The following image shows longitudinal profile data collected by ICC for an airport. Using the Connect software, data can easily be trimmed (i.e. set new start/end points for analysis), and start distance reference and direction can be edited. Metrics like International Roughness Index (IRI), Ride Number (RN), Profile Index (PrI), Boeing Bump Index, and others are automatically calculated. The data can be exported to ProVAL in ERD or PPF file formats for further analysis, or to CSV for analysis in other programs.