Worldsensing participated in the 7th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization (ISC), taking place in Barcelona, from June 18th to 21st 2024. The conference gathered experts and practitioners in the field of geotechnical characterization, with a focus on specialized geotechnical and geophysical tools and procedures.

We proudly contributed to the success of the event with two talks in the Field Monitoring in Geomechanics symposium. This session focused on the importance of field monitoring in geomechanics to verify the input data used in the original design and assess the integrity of structures during construction.

Multiple Worldsensing projects highlighted

Maria Navarro, Application Engineer at Worldsensing, presented a remarkable article discussing various rockfall monitoring techniques aimed at controlling the retreat of slopes and mitigating the risk of undermining buildings in the historical village of Castellfollit de la Roca. This iconic village in Catalonia is renowned for its houses built atop a basaltic slope. The paper was co-authored with Marc Janeras and Txus Carbonell from the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, with the participation of Juan Perez, Worldsensing’s Head of Instrumentation.

Worldsensing’s Event Detection Solution (EDS), as part of the Early Warning System, was implemented to understand the behaviour of a priority sector of the slope and monitor the inclination of some basaltic columns. This system works in conjunction with other loggers to automate thermistors and crackmeters.

Additionally, Victor Salinas and Àngela Lluch, Application Engineers at Worldsensing, collaborated with Josep Gili from the Departmentof Civil and Environmental Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and the Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya on the article “Preliminary tests on the UAV-enabled installation of wireless sensors for monitoring inaccessible slopes”. This paper presented their experience with using wireless tiltmeters to monitor inaccessible slopes in the Montserrat massif.

Other distinguished speakers included Josep Raventós, Instrumentation and Monitoring Director at SOCOTEC Spain, who chaired the Field Monitoring in Geomechanics Symposium, or a Sixense Iberia delegation that presented the Porto Metro project, and a deformation project due to dewatering where digital data loggers connected to piezometers were required.