Internet of Things

If These Walls Could Talk: The Internet of Things Will Save Lives, Time and Treasure

William Weaver | July 3, 2015

...After affixing electronic tilt sensors to the bridge supports, engineers were able to determine that a 55,000-ton stockpile of topsoil placed near the bridge had cracked eight footings and caused four pairs of supports to list as much as four degrees from vertical. Had low-power, wireless tilt sensors been attached a season earlier, the damage to the bridge could have been detected in real time and repairs initiated before conditions deteriorated.

Source: http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/%20traffic/2014/06/06/april-call-crazy-emergency-%20bridge/10095489/

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