The invisible instruments monitoring our most critical infrastructure
How do engineers know if a bridge is failing before it is too late? This video explores the vital role of sensors in tracking structural performance and providing early warnings to prevent disasters.
To ensure public safety, engineers monitor a variety of physical metrics to confirm that structures behave according to their original designs. By tracking data such as strain, vibrations, temperature, pressure, tilt, and flow rate, these instruments can detect when something is going wrong.
This continuous oversight of infrastructure performance does more than just create data; it serves as a life-saving mechanism by providing the early warnings necessary to prevent catastrophic collapses.
Source: How Sensors Keep Bridges From Collapsing (and other structures too)
