2. Safer Monitoring with fewer Site Visits Construction sites, railways and mines are recognised as high-risk environments and there is pressure throughout the industry to harness technology in order to reduce risk to people. The ability to leave instruments such as wireless tilt sensors, crack gauges and cameras in places
that are hard to access means that you don’t need to put people in harms way. The ability to understand the long- term performance of assets such
as bridges, tunnels and dams, and to detect problems such as deformation, cracking or slope failure instantly can help protect people using the assets or potentially affected by their failure.
Key considerations: Around the world, construction and transportation are amongst the most dangerous sectors in terms of workforce injuries and fatalities. Around 1000 deaths and 175,000 injuries are recorded per year in the US construction industry alone. Any reduction in the number of people on site will reduce the exposure to risk – it is far safer to monitor assets from a desk than from a scaffold platform or a railroad track. Most countries have a growing number of assets such as bridges that are classed as sub-standard and they all face a growing risk of defects and collapse. Increasing traffic levels and the changing climate exacerbate these pressures. Wireless remote monitoring technologies such as the Senceive InfraGuard TM system can detect many defects in time to alert stakeholders and significantly reduce the risk to users.
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