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Decentralized critical Infrastructure Asset Monitoring and coNDition assessment (DIAMOND)

Project description

Using AI to check the resilience of infrastructure

Ageing infrastructure such as roads, bridges, and energy systems, along with climate pressures, makes it essential to monitor safety and performance. Current inspection methods are expensive and reactive. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the DIAMOND project trains young researchers to develop decentralised, AI-driven monitoring tools. This includes smart sensors, data analysis, and sustainable power harvesting. DIAMOND aims to create self-aware infrastructure that can assess its own condition in real time. Overall, the project aims to promote safer, smarter, and more sustainable decision-making across sectors.

Objective

The doctoral network (DN) Decentralized Infrastructure Asset MOnitoring and coNDition assessment (DIAMOND) will train a new generation of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), who will be central to the digital transformation in EU for safety, economic competitiveness and resilience of critical infrastructure assets (civil/mechanial/social) by assimilating sensors, data analytics and sectoral needs of monitoring and assessment for timely decision making. DIAMOND addresses this timely challenge by aligning advanced computational capabilities to self-aware engineered environments (infrastructure/energy, automotive, industrial and art assets). A key enabler here is via advances in Artificial intelligence (AI), allowing for intelligent sensing nodes (AI on a chip), while concurrently establishing sustainability of such monitoring via bespoke power harvesting modalities and material choice. Our lab-ona- chip approach is a potent enabler for large-scale, cost-effective and automated implementation of responsible AI, as is necessary for monitoring applications at infrastructural scale. Our DN will explore key enablers of this decentralized approach in a cross-cutting manner, delivering deep expertise in sensor technology, data communication hardware/software, instrumentation & measurement strategies, structural health monitoring, system identification and data analytics promoting bespoke and timely interdisciplinary dialogue while promoting ethics, responsibility and environmental & societal good. DIAMOND will be an exemplar in intersectoral training for leading impactful sectors including transportation, automobile, renewable energy and art curation, while being adaptable for further sectors in an asset-agnostic way. It will establish at-location monitoring and subsequent evidence-based sustainable lifetime decisions at the core of EU processes and sectors.

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Funding Scheme

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
Net EU contribution
€ 341 087,04
Address
BELFIELD
4 Dublin
Ireland
Region
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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