Clarus System Development

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Clarus System Development

• Brenda Boyce
• Mixon/Hill, Inc.
• ICC Meeting 5
• September 20-21, 2007

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From the beginning . . .

• A Concept of Operations (ConOps) was developed.
• Approval of the ConOps was given by the Federal
  Highway Administration (FHWA), the Intelligent
  Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Programs
  Office (JPO), and the Initiative Coordinating
  Committee (ICC).

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A Design Team was Chosen

• Mixon/Hill, Inc.
• Oklahoma Climatological Survey
• Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
• The Stephenson Group
• Systems Engineering Process was Applied
• Open Architecture

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Task Forces were Created

• High-level Requirements
• Detailed Requirements
• Metadata
• Quality Checking

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Critical Design Review was Held

• Participants
• FHWA
• ITS JPO
• ICC Members
• Design was approved

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Clarus System Packages
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Configuration Files

• Collector Service
• Location of files to retrieve
• Header File
• Observation types
• Units
• Scale Factor
• Null Value
• Quality Checking Services
• Observation types
• Quality checks

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Hardware Communications

• 3 Servers
• Parts Purchased and Built
• T-1 Line Secured

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Proof-of-Concept Demonstration

• Three state DOTs were selected
• Alaska
• Minnesota
• Utah
• Meetings were Held
• Metadata was Collected
• Connection to RWIS Servers was Established
• Collections Began

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RFA Server Configuration

• Database Server
• Environmental Metadata Cache
• Watchdog
• Application Server
• Qualified Environmental Data Services and User
  Interface
• Environmental Metadata Services and User
  Interface
• Watchdog

• Eight Servers
• 4 Production
• 4 Test
• Collector Server
• Clarus Manager
• Collector Services
• Watchdog
• Quality Checking Server
• Clarus Manager
• Qualified Environmental Data Cache
• Quality Checking Services
• Watchdog

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Enhancements

• New Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Spatial Sorting Algorithm
• Fine Tuned Quality Checking Algorithms
• Fast Start of Population of Qualified
  Environmental Data Cache

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RFA Participants

• Utah
• Alaska
• Yukon
• British Columbia
• Alberta
• Iowa
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Ohio

• Wisconsin
• Minnesota
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Montana
• Wyoming
• Idaho
• Washington
• Oklahoma Climatological Survey