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The Cells of City Planning and Improvements

<p>If you live in a big city and you commute to and from work by car&comma; you are probably sick and tired of the congested traffic&period; Some people will even leave hours earlier than necessary in the morning to avoid rush hour&comma; and will put in an extra hour at work to avoid hitting it on the way home&period; Cities are constantly trying to improve road conditions&comma; road capacity&comma; and expand in ways to accommodate the growing number of residents&period; Have you ever noticed driving over a cable stretched across the road&quest; These cables are fed to signal conditioners that are in turn powered by cells such as the THB series Load Cell&period; This little component has many uses&comma; and in this case&comma; it is used to provide data to cities to make improvements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Bridges<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We have all heard the expression &OpenCurlyQuote;if you believe that&comma; I have a bridge to sell you”&period; Well billionaire Matty Moroun purchased the Ambassador Bridge—the only road connection from Michigan to Canada via Detroit &sol; Windsor&period; Load cells help play a vital role in providing bridge data&period; For private owners&comma; getting data from their bridges if of great important and urgency&comma; as it will help them protect their investment&period; In an article published by Forbes&comma; the article addresses some controversy over private bridge ownership&period; It also claims that the Ambassador Bridge is outdated&period; The author writes that at 75 years old&comma; the Ambassador is out-of-date&period; The article continues to address that its four lanes are too narrow and its approach too steep&comma; but none of the 130 other crossings to Canada is so perfectly placed&period; Recently&comma; Canada has expressed interest in building a new bridge to help &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;bridge” commerce between the two countries&comma; and Morous has spent millions of his own money to try to stop it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-482" title&equals;"city planning" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2013&sol;01&sol;content&lowbar;marketing&lowbar;opi&lowbar;photo493701-17-2013&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"300" &sol;>For years&comma; Mouron has relied on load cells working in harmony with signal conditioners to help him make his business decisions&period; The signal conditioner is primarily used for data acquisition&period; Here’s how it works&colon; sensor signals are normalized and filtered to levels acceptable for analog-to-digital conversion so computer devices can read them&period; Getting data on bridge traffic is vital for many reasons&period; Firstly&comma; it helps engineers better gauge when to conduct bridge maintenance&comma; like making reinforcements or replacing parts&period; Secondly&comma; it is useful for measuring the amount of traffic that comes in&period; Owning a bridge isn’t cheap&semi; it costs a great deal of money just to keep one up to code&period; Knowing if traffic is increasing or decreasing&comma; and when peak hours of traffic come in&comma; will provide data useful to determining toll charges&period; But as things seem to look for now&comma; Canada may be in the market for acquiring some load cells to measure road traffic on their bridge of the future&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>The Little device with a big impact<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These load cells are made with great care and integrity&period; They are manufactured from heat-treated 17-4 ph stainless steel&comma; and are therefore safe from almost any environment&period; However&comma; because they are made of stainless steel&comma; you will naturally want to take good care of them&period; For example&comma; keep them out of moist environments where rust may be a threat&period; If you are looking to purchase load cells for any number of wide jobs they can perform&comma; be sure to purchase ones that are constructed with these materials that meet the highest standards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Image source&colon; http&colon;&sol;&sol;thestar&period;blogs&period;com&sol;&period;a&sol;<wbr &sol;>6a00d8341bf8f353ef015391f53a01<wbr &sol;>970b-800wi<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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