SMS
Dam Monitoring
Dam Monitoring
What sets SMS apart is that we use fiber optic sensors. Most electrical sensors fail in less than 5 years while fiber optic sensors and cables last for decades. The cost is similar while FO provides higher accuracy.
Our FO technologies are available in point and or distributed sensors. A distributed fiber is unique in that it can provide several kilometers of temperature and or strain readings on one cable.
Placing a sensor cable in poured concrete or burying it in the soil will provide thousands of strain and temperature readings over its length for decades of life.
Installation requires 1/8th of the amount of cabling than an electrical based system would use, and fiber optic cable can run over 10 miles without power. Installation and long-term maintenance costs are significantly lower and have higher reliability.
In addition, to monitoring structural issues we can also monitor;
-
Wear of mechanical parts, motors, load to open or close gates
-
Reservoir level
-
Seepage flow
-
Turbidity
-
Inclinometers
-
Settlement
We provide design, installation, and long term monitoring of the dam. This helps Dam Safety Engineers target inspection, repairs, and warn of impending failures. SMS can provide a short WebEx presentation to explain our technologies.
​
Our newest addition to our monitoring solutions is a fixed-wing drone or UAS platform. Ask for Structural Hawk Information.
<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-TF39GSX');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->
