Smart Infrastructure

Designing, constructing, maintaining, and upgrading civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to reduce materials, energy, and labor. Meeting this goal depends on a deeper understanding of infrastructure performance - during construction and throughout its service life - enabled by innovative monitoring. The future of infrastructure will rely on smarter information: rich data from monitoring can catalyze new approaches to design, construction, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure systems, including those linked to user behavior patterns. Recent advances in sensing are creating new opportunities to transform condition assessment and monitoring. Computer vision, distributed fiber-optic sensing, LiDAR, wireless sensor networks, and satellite remote sensing can deliver high-resolution measurements over broad areas at relatively low field-scale cost. This talk highlights recent activities at the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure.

Speaker: Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley

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