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The internet of things - Structural health monitoring and care Adding measures as described above offers wider significance given that external control of future resilience of infrastructure requires intelligence to be cast into the structure with data produced for such control measures to be made. This significantly reduces the cost and risk of future infrastructure disruption through the need to repair1. C-Probe Systems and sister company Structural Healthcare Limited has developed these measures in the form of embeddable sensors for performance assessment, remote online control of ICCP systems and service life tracking that can be provided on open network architecture to allow additional functionality to be integrated on the same network.
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This allows expansion of functionality enabled from monitoring and control innovations; the Internet of Things. These can take many forms such as simple lighting controls giving efficiencies to energy use and safety or innovative neural network learning of the behaviour of people and vehicles that use the transportation infrastructure. This learning can then improve and influence future management decisions while minimising societal impact of travel.
1 (BRE Digest 455 Corrosion of steel in concrete: service life design and prediction; ICE proceedings, Jones and Lambert, Predicting service life from site accessed corrosion rate data, April 2016) (BRE Digest 455 Corrosion of steel in concrete: service life design and prediction; ICE proceedings, Jones and Lambert, Predicting service life from site accessed corrosion rate data, April 2016)