The globe is shifting toward a more urbanized human life paradigm. Cities are expanding, necessitating innovation to improve the quality of life in more effective ways. Smart cities are more than simply a notion or a pipe dream. Many innovative Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are already operational and quickly increasing. Municipal governments are developing intelligent cities to link and enhance infrastructure, efficiency, convenience, and quality of life for inhabitants and international visitors. A smart city’s foundation is built on intelligent bridges. Intelligent Structures develops innovative bridges that talk, providing investment managers with fact-based life cycle management assistance, allowing them to unleash trillions of dollars in lost infrastructural value and improve global mobility.
IntelliStruct’s innovative IoT bridge performance will digitally disrupt bridge management by providing bridge owners support based on IoT, analytics, and machine learning to make creative decisions optimizing the risk and efficiency of the bridge life cycle. IntelliStruct uses a proprietary architecture to deliver a sensor-to-cloud bridge performance and asset management solution for fleets ranging from one to 100,000 bridges. With over four years of commercial field operation in the harshest conditions, IntelliStruct has demonstrated performance. The SaaS platform is scalable to provide decision assistance for bridge fleets.
IntelliStruct analytics, uses these measurements and takes a bridge EKG and monitors its health.” Intelligent Structures is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) information technology firm that helps bridge owners make reasonable, fact-based choices to improve bridge life cycle management. The results are safer and more productive operation of this crucial transportation asset. Doubling or tripling the life of the bridge and saving billions of dollars,” says Brian Westcott, President, and CEO, Intelligent Structures.
IntelliStruct is an industrial IoT platform for bridge asset evaluation that combines technological innovations from sophisticated damage detection, cloud computing, big data analytics, low power electronics, and advanced economic modeling. IntelliStruct is a fully integrated system that measures the condition of bridge components and provides analytics, monitoring, and control at the bridge and component levels. Thus, it creates a venture platform that connects asset managers with sensors to management policy decision support.
An example of IntelliStruct’s capabilities is a SMART Bridge in Fort Plain NYS DOT. This 100-year-old bridge was rebuilt but still under load limitation due to a lack of measurable information on the bridge’s performance. It was impossible to monitor actual bridge efficiency and effectively administering the bridge. The NYS DOT used the IntelliStruct Bridge Performance Management Platform on the Fort Plain Bridge for structural monitoring, analysis using a digital twin, and performance calibration utilizing live load testing to evaluate if the bridge could be opened without limitations.
Intelligent Structures has repeatedly demonstrated that IntelliStruct is a real breakthrough that can potentially disrupt corporate bridge fleet performance management digitally. The platform’s technological and economic benefits, long-term dependability, and ease of installation and maintenance have been demonstrated. Intelligent Structures’ future growth raises bridge managers’ knowledge of IntelliStruct and the alternatives it provides for more effectively meeting their federally mandated Transportation Asset Management Planning (TAMP) goals and decreased budgets. “We are growing internationally with new partnerships in China, Asia, Europe, and Australia / New Zealand. We will continue to add architect engineering firms as partners,” says Westcott. “Our product roadmap includes adding additional Smart sensor technology to measure other aspects of bridge performance. Also, a focus on implementing Artificial Intelligence to have predictive maintenance plans and projection of bridge life cycle performance.”
By decreasing asset management costs, increasing mobility, and improving safety through real-time, data-driven decision-making, IntelliStruct will become the standard application for worldwide bridge owners and develop more solutions for a better smart city.
Company:
IntelliStruct
Management:
Brian J Westcott Ph.D., President & CEO
Description:
The goal of Intelligent Structures is to address the major worldwide issue of ageing infrastructure and greatly enhance the productivity of infrastructure asset management and decision making.
