Project description
Keeping Europe’s ageing infrastructure in check
Most of Europe’s infrastructure is old. What happens when infrastructure assets such as bridges, roads, railways, seaports and airports exceed their design life? The level of service, reliability and safety decreases. The EU-funded InteSens project will develop a game-changing integrated sensor system with a range of application-specific sensors. It will move away from current tools, which have low levels of accuracy and are manually operated. These sensors will be placed under a single data management system. What is more, the combination of the sensor technology with big data analytics will create an exact representation of the state of the assets. The project will allow civil engineers to forecast asset conditions and failures and make informed maintenance decisions.
Objective
High infrastructural spending (expected to reach €79 trillion annully on a global scale) is highly indicative of the ageing of our infrastructure (with most assets being >60years old). As infrastructure ages, its level of service, reliability and safety decreases, becoming susceptible to failure and a danger to human life. The most plausible solution to this problem is the adoption of proper asset management. A fundamental premise to asset management is continuous monitoring to understand the state of the infrastructure for appropriate action to be taken and this has been made possible through the use of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, current tools for asset monitoring either have low accuracy, are manually operated, lack civil engineering expertise, are not scalable - service specific e.g. big infrastructure only, or are extremely expensive. This limits the determination of present asset conditions and hinders effective preventive maintenance operations to make ageing infrastructure safer. Realising this challenge, INFRASENS is developing Inte-Sens, a game changing integrated sensor system with a range of application-specific sensors and a wireless data transmission system, used to monitor and manage infrastructure in real time. Our key unique feature which enables our uniqueness is the ability for Inte-Sense to link all geotechnical sensors under a single data management and the combination of our sensor technology with Big Data analytics to create an exact representation of the state of the asset. This enables civil engineers to forecast asset conditions and/or failure and make informed maintenance decisions on behalf of their customers. Although it has a miriad of application, for the purpose of this project, Inte-Sens will be targeted at residential infrastructure. This feasibility study will enable us to validate the viability of Inte-Sens and ascertain the technical, commercial and financial conditions for successful completion and exploitation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet of things
- engineering and technology civil engineering
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science big data
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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3900 BRIG
Switzerland
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