Archive for the ‘intelligent infrastructure’ Category
Infrastructure Modeling Approach Reduces Costs While Improving Road Quality
The New Brunswick Dept. of Transportation (NBDoT) is faced yearly with a monumental infrastructure maintenance task as it works to repair the largest infrastructure inventory per-capita in Canada. There are 18,000 kilometers of roads with 2,900 bridges that need to be maintained, despite a very limited budget. In order to address this maintenance problem fairly [...]
IBM to Open a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon
IBM is opening a Smarter Infrastructure Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to develop sensors and systems to monitor the state of infrastructure. The intent is to monitor and analyze the state of buildings, roads, water lines and other urban infrastructure. The software and systems will be tuned to process, monitor and analyze the data from [...]