Construction Monitoring

Easily comply with project requirements by gathering and sharing monitoring data remotely:

  • Tunneling
  • Deep excavations
  • Induced affections
  • Soil consolidation
  • Slope stabilization
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Finding the competitive edge for cost-effective risk management in construction

The increasing awareness towards risk management in civil engineering is leading to a demand for more robust, redundant and secure monitoring systems in construction projects. Engineering service providers are challenged to provide cost-effective monitoring solutions that can comply with strict regulations and the information needs of promoters, asset owners and other stakeholders.

Open and scalable technology with low operating costs

Leverage the long-range, high capacity of Worldsensing networks to optimize hardware deployment in monitoring systems. Enjoy compatibility with the leading geotechnical, structural, and environmental monitoring instrumentation on the market, along with the ability to easily add, remove, or relocate sensors as the project progresses. 

Reliable access to high quality data

Provide reliable data directly into your project’s decision-making software. Worldsensing networks are highly configurable to stream data with the right frequency and format, using the standard file transport protocols for seamless integration with any third-party software.

Network flexibility and reliability for different IT requirements

Deploy monitoring systems using a single-net configuration for closed, local management of monitoring systems or deploy multi-network configurations when centralized management is needed.

Features

Long-range radio communications
Up to 15 km radio communication range with the capacity to stream up to 300 messages per minute
Industry grade equipment
Autonomous, wireless, IP68 equipment that can function in extreme weather conditions, with minimum maintenance for up to 25 years
Extended radio coverage underground
Excellent radio coverage in tunnels, intricate topologies and and low-visibility areas using repeaters
Wide sensor compatibility
Capacity to connect leading instrumentation brands through digital, vibrating wire and analog wireless data loggers using industry-grade wireless devices

Construction monitoring

We enable connectivity in most of geotechnical, structural and environmental monitoring areas of:

Tunneling

Leading providers of cost-efficient and non-intrusive solutions to wirelessly monitor tunnel convergence, tunnel lining stress and other parameters leveraging excellent communication range up to 10 km underground.

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Slope stabilization

Field-proven connectivity and monitoring solutions for both in-ground geotechnical and geospatial instrumentation to wirelessly monitor slope stability.

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Induced affections

Deploy monitoring networks that can span wide areas to assess the impact of construction activity in surrounding buildings.

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Soil consolidation

Monitor settlement, heave, land reclamation and embankment projects to minimize risks of geohazards derived from construction activities.

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Monitoring parameters

We enable connectivity to your construction-related assets for reliable and comprehensive monitoring systems.

Geotechnical

Geospatial

Structural

Environmental

In-ground vertical and lateral displacement and deformations

Shape Arrays In-place inclinometers

In-place inclinometers are positioned at fixed locations in the inclinometer borehole allowing continuous monitoring. Connect Shape Arrays and IPIs and wirelessly transmit data using the Digital Data Logger or the broadband ThreadX3 for longer chains.

Up to 200 segments of Shape Array using the Digital Logger and up to 300 segments using the ThreadX3.

 

Pore water pressure and level

Piezometers Multi-point piezometers

Connect piezometers and multi-point piezometers from all the major geotechnical sensor manufacturers. Use 1-channel or 5-channel Vibrating Wire data loggers to transmit data from any number of sensor configurations. Water level sensors can be connected through Analog or Digital Data Loggers.

Soil water tension and moisture

Tensiometers Soil moisture sensors Granular matrix sensor

Assess soil water tension and moisture with a tensiometer and a granular matrix sensor both connected to an Analog Data Logger. Additionally, measure volumetric water content with a soil moisture sensor connected to a Piconode. You can also connect the Digital Logger to one or a chain of digital tensiometers.

Convergence

Laser tiltmeters

Leverage the power of Worldsensing’s 3-in-1 LaserTilt90 wireless sensor to monitor convergence across entrance ramps, tunnels, galleries, and any underground excavations. The LaserTilt90 may be easily relocated along the convergence cross sections up to the excavation front or until the measured relative displacements are stabilized when the required frequency of measurements is reduced. It can also be used when permanent monitoring is required. 

Relative surface movements

Total Stations

Complement your geotechnical monitoring with a total station connected to a ThreadX3 for accurate movement detection.

Absolute surface movements

GNSS sensors

Use cost-efficient GNSS sensors connected to a ThreadX3 to accurately monitor ground movements and land deformation in vast areas such as tailings dams, open-pit mines and their surrounding areas, regions affected by subsidence and decommissioned mines.

Movements across surface cracks

Crackmeters Draw wire sensors

Crack meters available in the market can be readily connected to a Vibrating Wire 1-channel data logger or the Piconode to monitor movement across surface cracks.

Strain and stress in steel arch supports

Strain gauges Strain meter rosettes

Attach VW Strain Gauges to the steel arch supported by arc welding them directly to the steel arch to achieve long-term strain measurements of the structural element. Connect the gauges to the Vibrating Wire 5-channel data logger. Additionally, it is possible to embed VW Strain Gauges in the shotcrete to measure strains within the tunnel lining.

Stresses in shotcrete

Pressure cells

Assess the tangential and radial stresses in shotcrete support for underground excavations with pressure cells connected to the Vibrating Wire 5-channel data logger.

Load in rock bolts, cable bolts and ground anchors

Load cells

Ensure the proper functionality of anchor systems -active and passive- by monitoring in a representative sample the load throughout their lifecycle including the load tests and stressing works. Stream data wirelessly from most of the load cells based on resistive strain gauges available in the market using the Piconode analog data logger. The 5-channel Vibrating Wire and the Digital Logger can also be suitable, depending on the type of load cell.

Vibrations for building integrity

Vibration meters

Monitor the impact of industrial activities on surrounding infrastructure with Worldsensing’s Vibration Meter, designed to operate in compliance with industry standards for building integrity (DIN4150-3 and BS7385-2).

Comprehensive Weather Parameters

Weather Stations Weather transmitters

Compatibility with major weather transmitter manufacturers via digital interface. Monitor precipitation, air temperature and other weather parameters using a weather transmitter connected to a Digital logger or ThreadX3. Multiple configurations readily available to stream the right data to your information systems.

Water quality

Multi-parameter probes

Analyze the quality of the water with a water multi-parameter probe connected to a Digital Logger or a ThreadX3.

Vibrations

Vibration meters

Monitor the impact of vibrations created by industrial activities on people’s comfort with Worldsensing’s Vibration Meter, designed to operate in compliance with industry standards (ISO 2631-2).

Our products

Discover the different product families that compose Worldsensing's IoT connectivity solutions for remote monitoring.

Loadsensing, Edge devices

Long-range, low-power devices that allow you to wirelessly transmit data from sensors to your information systems. Use our devices to transmit data from the widest catalog of analog, digital and vibrating wire sensors.

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Core communications

Choose your network and enable your communications with Worldsensing’s broadband and narrowband connectivity portfolio of gateways and repeaters.

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Management software

Centralize your network, device and data management operations under a single platform using CMT. Whether you are deploying private networks or cloud-based deployments, CMT has a management software solution for your project.

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What they say about us

Discover how Worldsensing has made a positive impact, providing reliable solutions and exceptional support.

The Worldsensing solution is robust and reliable in a challenging construction environment. Thanks to its simple installation and low maintenance, it reduces the time the team has to spend to re-enter the site to obtain key data for environmental risk control. Read success story

Zhangwei Ning, PhD
Technical Manager, Sixense Inc.

The set-up and installation was extremely simple. The data could be immediately transferred to the evaluation and visualization system. Its main advantage is its ability to send radio signals from under manholes and over a long distance. Read success story

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wagner
Project Manager, Angermeier Ingenieure

We believed remote monitoring and real-time data were the perfect choice. When it came to finding a partner to back this project, Worldsensing stood out as the only logical choice. I’m always 100% confident that their data collection is accurate. This option allowed us to swiftly take decisive action and implement safety measures. Read success story

Ir. Koo Kean Siang
Director, Geolab

In the past, we would have done it with cables. It would have been a lot of work for the construction company. It’s not really competitive anymore to use cable systems in geotechnical projects. Read success story

Daniel Naterop
Project Manager, Huggenberger

Embedded devices within the lining represents a major step forward in tunnel boring safety and efficiency. We can now drastically reduce the delays involved in installing and configuring tunnel monitoring systems, saving time and costs. Read success story

Guillaume Gehu
Contract Manager, Sixense France

The Worldsensing Piconode is very good for installation work, especially because we didn’t have to go up the cliff. We are not professional climbers. And just imagine having cables running 600 meters over a cliff to 43 sensors. Read success story

Daniel Naterop
Project Manager, Huggenberger

A great advantage of the Worldsensing system is the ability to change the reading frequency from a click of a finger without the need to go on site. So no need to access every logger to change it, it can all be done online.


Geomotion Australia

The data we're getting is excellent. Remote access to the data is an improvement on having to send someone on site to take measurements. Read success story

Guillaume De Tonnancourt
Sales Manager, GEO-Instruments Canada (formerly GKM Consultants)