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Construction and Civil Infrastructures Monitoring Systems

Civil infrastructures are usually monitored through its whole life cycle. SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) technologies enable the estimation of the structural state and detection of structural change that affects the performance of a structure. Two discriminating factors in SHM are the time-scale of the change (how quickly the state changes) and the severity of the change. These factors ...

Aug. 1, 2013

By Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L

GPR: a new tool for structural health monitoring of infrastructure

Abstract Recent developments in acquisition methodology, data acquisition systems, post-processing software, and the availability of user friendly high-frequency antennas have enabled the GPR user to generate accurate three dimensional images of the interior of concrete structures. Four case studies are discussed with emphasis on output that is readily understood by the ...

Jan. 1, 2007

By SewerVUE

Renewing Belgrade’s Water Infrastructure

After the trauma of the 1990s, new foreign and national investments in Belgrade’s water infrastructure is enabling the city to benefit from the latest advances in water supply technology… Introduction Situated on the banks of the rivers Sava and Danube, the citizens of Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia and Montenegro in the Balkans, have long benefited from ready access to water. ...

Jan. 1, 2003

By Innovyze

Green infrastructure and territorial cohesion

The point of departure for this analysis is to support the European process towards territorial cohesion and green infrastructure development, in particular the development of a strategy for green infrastructure. This report explores the concept of green infrastructure, with illustrative examples of green infrastructure initiatives on the ground and further analyses of the integration of green ...

Dec. 19, 2011

By European Environment Agency (EEA)

An infrastructure for developing self-organising services

This paper describes a software package named 'licas' (lightweight internet-based communication for autonomic services) that can be used to build networks of service-based components that have the potential to behave autonomously and self-organise through stigmergic links. Discussed will be how these components are able to self-adapt inside of this infrastructure and also show potential for more ...

Dec. 17, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Public policy and the failure of national infrastructures

On the 14 August 2003, a complex combination of immediate events and longer term vulnerabilities led to a domino effect in which 50 million people had their power supplies interrupted. Consequent losses were between $5–$10 billion. It is, therefore, one of the most serious disruptions to a national power distribution network. The causes included technical issues to do with network capacity ...

Mar. 1, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

On the vulnerability of critical infrastructures: "seeing it coming"

The paper addresses a number of concerns that are manifest in the safety management of critical infrastructures (CI) including, and especially, the effects of an increasing complexity on the safety managers' ability to comprehend and monitor the stability, predictability, and manoeuvrability of the systems at hand; the perverse effect of computer ubiquity on the CI safety quality; and, entailing ...

Feb. 7, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Pipeline Zooming for a Comprehensive Infrastructure Survey.

Time, budget and resources often keep a municipality from maintaining comprehensive, up-to-date information on water and sewer pipeline conditions. Without a complete understanding of their infrastructures, municipal supervisors cannot properly prioritize and schedule maintenance activities. As a result, emergencies—backups, collapses, and overflows—happen unexpectedly, and must be dealt with on ...

Aug. 28, 2007

By Envirosight LLC

Smart Infrastructure is Key for QA/QC

Paperless, or more accurately integrated, labs enjoy streamlined operations with better data, while minimizing costs, validation and maintenance. Laboratories responsible for QA/QC are a sum of many parts, but no part is more important than data. Data is THE product, and the integrity of that data is more than critical to today’s pharmaceutical laboratories. So what happens when processes ...

Jul. 10, 2014

By Poplar Solutions, LLC

Unpacking the energy implications of distributed water infrastructure: how are rainwater systems performing?

Drought and concern over climate change has led to the increased use of distributed water systems in Australia to supplement centralised supply systems. A literature review carried out by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) into the energy consumption of water infrastructure found that very little data on energy consumption exists, particularly for distributed systems. This paper reviews ...

Sep. 1, 2010

By IWA Publishing

Leachate Monitoring Alarm System

A Major Waste-Disposal Operator, Sept 2008 - ongoing Leachate Monitoring at Landfill Site near Reading Design and installation of a GSM-based telemetry system for monitoring leachate level and pumping rates at 5 no. boreholes. An ATEX certified intrinsically-safe depth pressure transmitter was selected due to the presence of explosive gases at the site. A ...

Sep. 1, 2008

By Isodaq Technology - Hydro-Logic Group

Increasing security and protection of SCADA systems through infrastructure resilience

In this paper, we present the approach we have taken in the INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure Resilience (INSPIRE) project to improve the protection of critical information infrastructures. The core idea of the INSPIRE project is to protect critical information infrastructures (CIIs) by appropriately configuring, managing and securing the communication network ...

Feb. 2, 2010

By Inderscience Publishers

Risks in business design for critical infrastructures: the 'DASHBOARD' concept

A method is proposed to assess critical infrastructures vulnerabilities, in terms of derived indicators for system evolution and its future states. Different classes of distortions are further monitored for the purpose of estimating the relative frequency of a system failure by using the "Dashboard" concept.Keywords: vulnerability, resilience, system modelling, dashboard, decision ...

Dec. 27, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

An Infrastructure Grows · Decentralized Treatment and Recycling Domestic Wastewater

THE TERM, “decentralized waste-water management,” refers to the process of treating and discharging treated wastewater in the local vicinity where it is generated. Decentralized systems typically use the soil as the final receptor of the treated wastewater instead of discharging to surface waters, which are generally the receptors of treated wastewater from larger centralized treatment plants. ...

Jan. 1, 2001

Safety and security of energy infrastructures in Europe: the EC–DG JRC's energy risks monitor project

After mapping of current European Union (EU) regulations on the management of accidental risks related to natural hazards and different industrial activities, this paper discusses insights from past European Commission (EC) initiatives on harmonisation of assessment and management of safety risks. Next, for the specific case of the energy sector, the on-going development of a methodology and ...

Aug. 22, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

Quantitative Vulnerability Assessment of Critical Infrastructures: watching for hidden faults

A method to diagnose the current vulnerability of a complex system featuring large numbers of components and indicators, as well as to dynamically monitor the time-evolvement of the vulnerability as the indicators change, is demonstrated. A consequent algorithm and its software implementation are introduced. Providing an index-based vulnerability metrics and a matrix to assess vulnerability ...

Jan. 14, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Regional industries as critical infrastructures: a tale of two modern cities

The research state-of-the-art mentions critical infrastructures (CI) in the same breath as studies about cataclysmic threats, events instantiated by a terrorist or cyber-attack, and/or a natural disaster. This paper suggests that a threat to CI may also result from slowly evolving, gradual, and undetectable events that build up over time. Entire regional industries and their associated networks ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

London Region Develops “Intelligent” Infrastructure for the HELP Clean Water Project

For progressive municipalities, forward thinking about infrastructure can pay huge dividends down the road. In London region, the HELP Clean Water Funding Initiative (Huron-Elgin-London Project Clean Water) was started to create sustainable water supply for a major population hub in Ontario. The project has been 11 years in the making, with ...

Jan. 29, 2015

By Pure Technologies

Water System Infrastructure – A View of Where We Are, Where We Could Go and How We Can Get There.

This is the first of several essays that are aimed at focusing attention on water and sewer infrastructure systems. In this essay, the current state of city and regional systems are examined, the current state of the industry will be examined next, investigating some of the tools, resources and technologies that are available, today. Beyond that, the final essay in this series will look at the ...

Apr. 24, 2007

By H2bid, Inc.

Improved IT infrastructure helps Tata’s procurement in the UK case study

When Tata Limited discovered that certain aspects of its IT infrastructure upgrade had not been allowed for in the refurbishment project planned for its London offices, it knew that it didn’t have the in-house skills needed to handle a project of this scope and complexity. As the company’s Facilities Manager had previously worked with Mark Dansie, Inflectiontech was appointed ...

Mar. 28, 2014

By Energy Services and Technology Association (ESTA)

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