Dec 16, 2020
As one of the most remarkable and challenging years in memory draws to a close, Measurand looks forward to 2021 by looking back at some of the highlights of 2020.
New Brunswick may not be the first place you expect to find the manufacturers of the most advanced deformation measuring and monitoring instrumentation in the world, but that’s what you’ll find at Measurand’s headquarters in Fredericton. We launched this interactive web-based showcase to highlight some of the most important milestones in Measurand’s history.
According to Engineers Canada, women account for less than 13 percent of practising professional engineers in Canada. While enrollment in university programs steadily increases, under-representation for women in the engineering profession remains a reality. Measurand is proud to observe International Women in Engineering Day annually.
Measurand launched SAAX in 2014 because our clients needed a rugged, cost-effective solution for real-time ground settlement, subsidence, rail-line deformation, and pipeline monitoring. Now, in 2020, Measurand is proud to announce the next step in the evolution of the most rugged and durable ShapeArrayTM we sell—SAAX model 003.
Effectively measuring vertical and lateral displacement provides invaluable information to decision-makers on the performance of their structures. Whether it is a critical program such as supporting active construction or long-term condition monitoring of aging infrastructure assets, reliable data can help manage and mitigate risk. Clients need to compare ShapeArray vs digital in-place inclinometer systems to determine which monitoring solution is correct for them.
Measurand loves to meet our distributors and clients face-to-face. However, the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 prevented our technical sales team from travelling. Measurand had to quickly pivot to new digital strategies to connect with members of the geotechnical community.
Measurand launched a robust webinar program to continue to reach and educate professionals on the key benefits of ShapeArray’s real-time monitoring capabilities.
Learn how Measurand’s ShapeArray can reduce project costs, save time, increase worker safety, and provide real-time data. This webinar introduces Measurand’s three unique ShapeArray models, explores the options for viewing and collecting data, and illustrates real-world monitoring applications like monitoring ground displacement, settlement, deformation, and convergence with case studies.
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Technical Services team members, Megan O’Donnell and Matthew Miller take you through what you can expect from the moment you receive your ShapeArray through to a successful installation where you can begin collecting data.
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As part of offering our clients the most freedom of choice to solve their monitoring challenges, Measurand partners with the leaders in the field. we’ve co-produced and co-hosted a number of webinars with partners to share some exciting developments in automated data collection, data viewing, and options for wireless communication.
In July 2020 RST Instruments announced the latest data logger to join the RSTAR network—DT ShapeArray. This collaboration brings Measurand’s patented shape-sensing technology to RST Instruments’ flagship RSTAR radio communication network.
DT ShapeArray (DTSAA) is designed to support a single ShapeArray instrument and enable wireless communication from the sensor to the main data collection station or manual retrieval. It is a small-form-factor data logger powered by a single lithium battery.
Join RST Instrument’s Savanna Herman and Measurand’s Matthew Miller as they discuss this collaboration and what it means for geotechnical and structural monitoring.
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Measurand is proud to announce a new partnership with Singapore-based Ackcio that will provide out-of-the-box compatibility between Measurand’s ShapeArray sensors and Ackcio’s Beam suite of wireless data transmission products. This collaboration offers an integrated data automation solution, from collection to transmission to processing and display, for your geotechnical monitoring needs that puts real-time data at your fingertips when you need it, where you need it.
The integration of the Beam suite and the ShapeArray make it possible for clients and partners who use Ackcio and Measurand for their independent strengths to benefit from one unified data acquisition system for all their instruments.
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Remotely monitor and control your cloud-connected sensor network in three easy steps. The sensemetrics cloud platform enables sensor data from Measurand’s ShapeArray to be seamlessly relayed via your preferred gateway, and managed with sensemetrics software or viewed with third-party integrations.
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Join Jeff Barrett, Measurand and Todd Roberts, sensemetrics, as they walk you through a case study that details the monitoring system installed at Yeager Airport after a slope failure that destroyed its runway and its eventual reconstruction. This webinar specifically addresses the benefits of ShapeArray deformation sensors paired with sensemetrics’ cloud-based data monitoring platform. This session focuses on the benefits of real-time deformation monitoring during construction and the ease of installation of the Measurand and sensemetrics system.
Case study: Yeager Airport, approximately 5 km (3 miles) east of downtown Charleston, West Virginia, sits on a hill with steep slopes on several sides. In 2015, a reinforced slope failure impacted operations at Yeager airport by damaging the existing Engineered Materials Arrestor System (EMAS). In response to this event, a permanent and robust solution was required to meet local, state, and federal design requirements. Therefore, Schnabel Engineering designed a multi-element (hybrid) retaining wall structure 25 m (83 ft) in height and the associated monitoring program.
The monitoring program consisted of both Measurand model SAAF and SAAV sensors paired with other geotechnical sensors. This combined technology allowed engineers to correlate field measurements with the design models and adjust anchor loading conditions to help maintain wall alignment. In addition, real-time monitoring provided confidence to the engineers that internal components of the wall were not being overstressed or subjected to unexpected deformation.
This online seminar is presented in partnership with Geotechnical Observations. Join Dr. Andrew Ridley of Geotechnical Observations and Chris Gairns to learn how ShapeArray is used to monitor deformation in infrastructure.
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From everyone at Measurand to you, all the best in the new year. We look forward to meeting with you in the future.
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