Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina X:X | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2026.012

Enhancing the Transport Safety through Disdrometer-Based Environmental Sensing

Matúš Nečas ORCID...^{1, *}, Tomáš Ranuša ORCID...¹, Dušan Maga ORCID...², Gabriel Gašpar ORCID...^{1, 3}

¹ Department of Control and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

² Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

³ Research Centre, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

In this study is presented a system for real-time precipitation measurement integrating the laser disdrometer with adaptive control. The system manages large sensor data streams dynamically, enhancing robustness and accuracy under intense weather conditions. Meteorological inputs, combined with communication, enable scalable infrastructure supporting automated safety interventions. Experimental deployment showed improved data fidelity, anomaly detection, and detailed analysis of drop size and velocity distributions. The approach advances intelligent transportation safety and operational reliability through comprehensive environmental sensing and real-time adaptive data processing.

Keywords: disdrometer, environmental monitoring, ETL pipeline, intelligent transportation systems, real-time data collection

Grants and funding:

This work was supported by VEGA through the Research on motion data analysis methods for applications in diagnosis and therapy of gnostically relevant symptoms under Grant 1/0147/25.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: November 14, 2025; Accepted: December 4, 2025; Prepublished online: January 16, 2026