Environmental and structural monitoring systems
The monitoring of the structures is becoming an increasingly topical issue, as well as a pressing need.
There is an urgent need to monitor the multitude of man-made works, including bridges, dams, tunnels, buildings, monuments, pylons.
Extending the horizon, to this is added the constant need to control any movement of landslides, avalanches, or rock falls and to avoid flooding due to flooding of rivers or lakes.
To meet these needs, SENSing srl, a spin-off of the Engineering Department of the University of L’Aquila, which operates in the industrial electronics sector, has developed the Smart Monitoring system, an autonomous “intelligent” electronic system for remote monitoring, control and alarm of the security of the territory and of the structures and infrastructures.
The system consists of one or more sensors, each equipped with a solar panel, therefore energetically autonomous (but possibly also powered by electricity), which can be declined in various configurations, equipped with an accelerometer (or inclinometer, or water sensor in operation of the problems) and able to detect displacements and vibrations, even of minimal entity.
Each of them therefore represents a node (accelerometric, inclinometric, hydrometric, thermometric…)
The data is then continuously sent to a main datalogger which takes care of sending the data on a special web portal dedicated to the customer. Everything is therefore adaptable both to monitoring and to emergency and alarm systems, via messages, emails or light or sound signals .
In addition to the detection
of sensational events, the system also allows continuous monitoring
of the structural and functional “well-being” of bridges,
buildings, structures and infrastructures of various types.
The
system therefore makes it possible to monitor relatively low-impact
phenomena such as wind, traffic, settlements, microtremors, verifying
their effect on structural safety. In addition, thanks to
seismic monitoring, there is a structural response in the event of
strong tremors and consequently important diagnostic
information on the structural response and safety of the same.
The main peculiarity of the system is therefore the possibility of adapting to all needs, as it is designed together with the user and having his needs as a priority, but above all according to the structure to be monitored.
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