Build Infrastructure Awards 2016 magazine

Build Infrastructure Awards 18 Senceive are the creators of FlatMesh™ – the world’s most reliable and robust wireless condition monitoring technol- ogy. Kim Hawksworth from the firm talks us through this pioneering product. Senceive’s strong technology and geo-technical base, significant spend on product innovation and recruitment of skilled and experienced personnel at all levels, including those with field support experience, have enabled the compa- ny to develop and secure widespread deployment of its currently unrivalled, 3rd generation FlatMesh branded mon- itoring platform/architecture. The firm are very proud to state that Senceive has never lost a client or relationship since inception. Whether it be monitoring short or long term track bed twist and cant, embank- ment slippage, bridge condition, through to tunnel deformation assessment during repair or replacement, Senceive’s systems are designed for challenging, wire and power free deployment. The systems have been deployed over 10 years making Senceive the most experienced wireless RCM provider for Rail and Construction globally. The award winning Senceive solutions use a wireless mesh-networked, intelligent sensor system consisting of a collec- tion of small easy to deploy devices, equipped with sensing, communication and computation capabilities. They work co-operatively and intelligently (“they talk to each other”) to enable monitoring of complex layouts or challenging and difficult to access environments. At a technical level the system has been tested and proven over a decade of deployments in highly demanding environments, and prior to that 5 years of research at UCL, one of the world’s pre-eminent engineering universities. Our Senceive Ltd was incorporated in 2005 to commercialise wireless communica- tions technology developed from 2001, within the research labs of UCL, one of the UK’s leading engineering univer- sities. The majority of the company’s share ownership together with board governance rests with the management team and UCLB (UCL’s IP commerciali- sation company). In the 10 years since Senceive’s for- mation, the company has transformed itself into a high quality and customer responsive organization, which is now widely seen as the leading exponent and benchmark for wireless Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM) solutions, not only in the UK’s geo spatial sector but also now internationally. System Integration Layer consists of a lightweight operating system and modules that interface between the sensors, communication layers and processing systems on each node, and then back through a gateway to our server and web interface. The nodes themselves are micro-controller based, wireless mesh-networked based on IEEE 802.15.4 and form an integrated system that can monitor over a wide area, or any convoluted physical/ geographical environment. Working as a self-configuring wireless mesh, data moves from neighbour to neighbour through the network. This provides an extremely robust and flexible solution adaptable to many various and challenging situations. As a result of many years of devel- opment on sensor interface and wireless algorithms, battery life is unrivalled and should last between 12 to 15 years in typical situations of 15 minute to one hourly reporting. Proprietary algorithms support functions such as clustering, data retrieval and policy distribution, self-diagnosis, dynamic algorithm management and security models. Nodes communicate with the gateway in order for data to exit the system. The gateway only needs to communicate with one node in order for the whole network to send data. This provides for highly flexible deployment configurations, particularly in comparison to hub and spoke wireless alternatives. Best Wireless Sensor Network: FlatMesh™ IA16015 Company: Senceive Ltd. Address: Hurlingham Studios Ranelagh Gardens London SW6 3PA, UK Phone: +44 (0)20 7731 8269 Email: [email protected] Website: senceive.com