#  INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this document is to describe the improvements and the functions
that have been made for the RSI-website and to provide the reader with
information of how the webpage, www.roadstatus.info is structured. The website
is developed in the startup stages of the project and the webpage will be
continually updated to include any key technical update throughout the phase 2
project lifetime while maintaining the intellectual rights to any technical
developments.

The document is organized and structured to guide and provide the reader with
knowledge to understand the functions of the website.

To visit the webpage, use the following address:
http://www.roadstatus.info/en/home

**1.1 BACKGROUND**

Klimator has developed the innovative Road Status Information (RSI) technology
which uses several live data sources to reliably and accurately monitor and
predict road conditions within the winter seasons.

KLIMATOR-RSI uses real-time data from connected cars (supplied by our partner,
NIRA Dynamics) together with advanced meteorological modelling to increase the
resolution and accuracy of road status data and forecasts. This proprietary
technology allows a whole network of roads to be monitored continuously and
provide specific information on each small segment of road to support road
treatment decision-making. Another use we have been working on for our
technology, is by supplying real-time friction maps for public road users via
NIRA Dynamics for OEM car manufacturers, making the use of roads safer and
providing another revenue stream.

**1.2 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT**

The purpose of this document is to, in detail describe the improvements and
the functions that has been made for the website and to provide the reader
with information

of how the webpage is structured.

#  THE STRUCTURE OF THE WEBSITE

In the chapter below the structure of the website will be described in three
different categories. The categories are; front-page, menu and features.

**2.1 FRONT-PAGE**

The front-page of the website contains the most important information. It is
considered highly important that a person which is visiting the website finds
it user-friendly, which means that it’s easy to find the requested information
and that the user understands the purpose of the site.

##  2.1.1 THE FRONT-PAGE LAYOUT

The layout of the front page is extremely central since this is the first
impression that the visitor gets which means that it must be easy to
understand where different types of information are stored. The front-page
format is also important as it should create a feeling in the visitor. In this
case, it is significant to create a feeling of high levels of knowledge,
robustness, innovation and winter road conditions.

To create movement and to fulfil the feelings above, Klimator has chosen to
work with a “living” front page. This creates movement and the possibility to
present the most important features of RSI without getting a cluttered
feeling. As can be seen in Figure 1, 2 and 3, they are all equipped with
arrows which give the visitor the possibility to control which one of the
front pages they want to see. The features that have been selected is an
introduction to RSI, see Figure 1, an easy access to a demo account, see
Figure 2 and a link to our newsletter and information about where we will be
in the nearby future, see Figure 3\.

**Figure 1 A quick-link to an introduction of RSI.**

**Figure 2 A quick-link to where you can sign up for a demo account.**

**Figure 3 A quick-link to where you can sign up for our newsletter.**

Except for the parts that have been described above, the front-page is
containing a nonmoving part as well. The non-moving part can be divided into
three groups; the quicklinks, collaborators and the menu bar. Whish can be
seen in Figure 4 below. The two first mentioned are presented in 2.1.2
Collaborators and 2.1.3 Quick-links. The menu is presented under 2.2 Menu.

**Figure 4 The non-moving part of the front page. The red circles represent
the three**

**groups of information.**

##  2.1.2 CLEAR EXPOSER OF HORIZON 2020

It is of great importance to show the viewer that RSI has received funding
from the European Union. In Figure 5 below a view of how the expose has been
designed.

**Figure 5. The exposer of Horizon 2020 on the front-page.**

##  2.1.3 QUICK-LINKS

To make it easier for the viewer to find the needed information, quick-links
to products and conferences, has been strategically placed on the front page.

**Figure 6 The quick-links that the viewer can find on the frontpage.**

**2.2 MENU**

At the top of the website a menu has been placed. The menu contains important
information that partly can be found in the quick-links on the front page. The
purpose of the menu is to give the viewer an overview of the content of the
webpage. In Figure 7 below, the menu-bar is presented. The colors have
carefully been chosen to match the logo of RSI.

**Figure 7 The menu-bar that is placed at the top of the website.**

##  2.2.1 EXHIBITIONS

By exposing the different exhibitions that Klimator will attend and to give
the viewer the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter, Klimator has the
possibility to provide the viewer with information about the product both
trough the web and in person. It is of great importance that the access of
information is easy to receive.

##  2.2.2 SOFTWARE

RSI as a product, is divided into three packages; RSI Basic, RSI Standard and
RSI Pro. To get more information about these the viewer can use the sub menu.
The different packages are educational described to fulfill the purpose, to
give the viewer a foundation of information about RSI. The submenu is shown in
Figure 8.

**Figure 8 The submenu that provides the viewer the possibility to learn more
about RSI**

**as a product and what the different packages contains.**

##  2.2.3 ABOUT

Under About, the viewer can get some information about Klimator and Nira
Dynamics as a company and RSI as a product.

###  2.2.4 DEMO ACCOUNT

It is of great importance to make the viewer understand what a revolutionary
tool RSI is. We therefore provide anyone who has an interest of RSI a free
trial account. It is very important that it’s easy to subscribe and access a
demo account. After the viewer has subscribed a demo user key will be sent by
email.

**Figure 9 In this Figure a part of how to get a demo account is shown.**

###  2.2.5 NEWSROOM

By having a newsroom, the viewer can see the latest updates of what Klimator
does.

This is a log of exhibitions, collaborations and other major happenings for
RSI. In Figure 10 below the newsroom is shown. This must be continuously
updated.

**Figure 10 The newsroom with the latest updates.**

###  2.2.6 CONTACTS

To reach out to Klimator, the different co-workers and their contact
information is presented under Contacts. It is of great importance that the
viewer easy can reach out to Klimator for questions about RSI, the company,
the different packages and so on.

**2.3 FEATURES**

The development of features of the website is an ongoing process. So far, the
features that is, is the language feature. At the moment, the website is
possible in Swedish and in English.

**2.4 DEVELOPMENT AREAS**

There are a couple of development areas for the webpage that is still going.
Klimator wants to extend the language merge to Finnish, Norwegian, French,
Spanish, Lithuanian and German.

On the webpage we will also include information of how the data can be used
for other applications.

#  DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN

Klimator has formed a DMP (Data Management Plan). The main reason for the DMP
is to create a formal document that outlines how data are to be handled. The
purpose of the DMP is ensures that data are well-managed in the present and
prepared for preservation in the future.

**3.1 DATA STRATEGY**

The overarching and driving structure of managing data is a data strategy. A
data strategy is essentially a roadmap that identifies how Klimator will
collect, handle, manage and store content. While a data strategy can vary in
its content a simple strategy explaining each component is vital.

Klimators roadmap for data strategy contains the following parts; how to
collect, handle, manage and store content. KLIMATOR–RSI works in a three-step-
process:

  1. Data collection from multiple sources 

  

  2. Data processing in our climate model & interpreter 

  

  3. Data representation to the clients via a graphical user interface 

  

  

The main innovation in our technology is the unique algorithms we have
developed to take the raw data and transform it into a user-friendly format
which has alerts to specifically show which segments of a road network need
treatment. Our RSI technology takes the data from external sources and uses
our climate model to form initial raw information for road surface monitoring
and forecasting and then it is sent through the interpreter model to produce
the final geographically located road surface model. This information is then
transposed using our unique user interface to give our clients a simple but
effective method for monitoring road surface conditions.

Klimator has implemented a barebones data strategy, which outlines who has
access to member data, which computers can be used for downloading reports and
how we use our mobile devices to access data. Klimator also has restrictions
on permissions for anyone who can log into our site from the backend.

Klimator is careful with our data and know exactly who is interacting with it
and how.

  2. **DATA COLLECTION**

  

  

The data collection is defined by answering the two questions, “What data do
we want to collect?” and “How will we collect that data?”.

As an answer to the first question, the data that we want to collect is
presented in table 1 below. The second question of how we will collect it can
be answered as; the all data will be collected in digital format from B&M,
Nira Dynamics, local weather suppliers and RWIS.

**Table 1 The different parts of Klimator´s roadmap.**

  3. **DATA STORAGE**

  

  

The data is stored through a trusted platform that can be expandable and
scalable based on your company’s current and future needs. Klimator uses data
storage spaces, such as Dropbox and Google Drive whish ensure a high security
level.

  4. **DATA SHARING**

  

  

The use of raw data is only available in-house. Only processed data is
available for third-party.

Processed data can be found at the web-page. The user must sign up and log in
with unique user-keys. We also provide news letter to the market which follows
the GDPRregulation.

  5. **DMP COMPONENTS**

  

  

To develop a well working Data management plan Klimator has used the template:
_TEMPLATE HORIZON 2020 DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN (DMP)_ . This template includes
the areas; data summary, FAIR data allocation of recourses, Data security,
Ethical aspects and others.

##  3.5.1 DATA SUMMARY

The purpose of the data collection/generation is to enable and generate a new
type of product for different market needs and users in road climate such as;
winter road maintenance, insurance industry, transportation and logistics,
automotive industry and the media.

**Figure 11. KLIMATOR climate and interpreter model processing chain.**

Data is absolutely necessary to generate the product RSI. The combination of
the different data sources is what makes RSI a unique product. The specific
types and formats of data generated / collected is presented in Table 2 below.
There is no existing data that is being re-used.

**Table 2 The different parts of Klimators roadmap.**

The origin of the data can be traced down to a couple of companies. The origin
of the data comes form; B&M, Nira Dynamics, local weather suppliers and RWIS.

The expected size of the data can be estimated to 35,52GB The data is needed
to create:

  * The Frictionmap 

  

  * Nowcast 

  

  * Forecast 

  

Which means that the data will be useful for the users of the product RSI. The
users can be defined as; winter road maintenance, insurance industry,
transportation and logistics, automotive industry and the media.

##  3.5.2 FAIR DATA ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES

Since we are not a research projects we have a SME's controversial protected
IP. The data is our trade secret and idea. The data is therefore not available
for third parties. However, processed data is available through our website,
which is described under Section 1 and 2 in the report or visit our website
www.roadstatus.info/en.

##  3.5.3 DATA SECURITY

The data is stored through a trusted platform that can be expandable and
scalable based on your company's current and future needs. Klimator uses data
storage spaces, such as Dropbox and Google Drive whish ensure a high security
level. The security can be divided in to three groups; Documentation, Forecast
and Vehicle.

  * Documentation is stored on Dropbox and includes; texts, word-files, cod, excelfiles, picture, GIS-data, presentations and reports. 

  

  * Forecast output is stored at Amason S3 which includes the output of the system. 

  

  * Vehicle data is stored at Amason S3. The vehicle data contains all data that is connected to vehicles, friction data and measure data. 

  

##  3.5.4 DATA HANDLING

###  3.5.4.1 GENERIC DATA FROM EXTERNAL PROVIDERS

The friction data from vehicles is received from NIRA in an anonymous format.
The data is received and stored as statistics per road segment. No special
protection is needed.

###  3.5.4.2 PRIVATE DATA ACQUIRED FROM CAR USERS

As mentioned earlier KLIMATOR-RSI uses real-time data from connected cars,
which is supplied directly by our partner, NIRA Dynamics. NIRA dynamic handles
ALL data from the cars and has appointed a set of lawyers to ensure that the
acquisition, management and disposal of this data are handled according to the
prevalent rules. The data is, therefore, anonym for Klimator-RSI and cannot be
traced back to a private person. Once the anonym data is used in the RSI
project the data is stored through a trusted platform that can be expandable
and scalable based on the company’s current and future needs. For data
storage, Klimator uses modelling servers with extra backup on Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3), which is designed to deliver 99.999999999% of durability
( _https://aws.amazon.com/s3/_ ). Klimator RSI project is working towards a
Docker solution where the modelling servers can be recreated and restarted on-
the-fly whenever there is need for extra resources or if a server instance
fails.

For documents, Klimator uses storage space such as Dropbox and Google Drive,
which ensure a high security level.

The disposal of all data is handled according to the General Data Protection
Regulation.

##  3.5.5 OTHER

Klimator is following the laws and restrictions of EU General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR).

#  CONCLUSIONS

The RSI-website has been developed in the early stages of the present project.
The development of the website will frequently be updated to include any key
technical update throughout the phase 2 project lifetime while maintaining the
intellectual rights to any technical developments. By creating a Data
Management Plan, we can ensure a correct use of the data and knowledge
generated by KLIMATOR with respect to the RSI project.

#  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  1. Klimator H2020 project Grant Agreement 2018. 

  

  2. Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020 V 2.0 – 15.02.2018