Independent assurance for monitoring schemes.
GeoMonix specifies, reviews and interprets monitoring on infrastructure and the ground. It sells no hardware, installs nothing and represents no supplier, so the advice answers only to the engineering. Where fibre-optic sensing is the right instrument it is specified in full technical detail. Where it is not, that gets said.
What GeoMonix does
Where the engineering value sits
Coverage is largely a solved problem. Interpretation is not. GeoMonix works on the layer between the data and the decision, independently and without selling any sensing platform.
Independent review
An independent check of a monitoring specification, a supplier proposal or a contractor submission, before procurement commits the budget.
Explore assurance →Interpretation & diagnosis
Turning strain, temperature and acoustic data into a statement about the ground or the structure, with the mechanism identified rather than assumed.
Explore interpretation →Modelling & ground truth
Finite-element analysis and independent calibration measurements, so what a scheme reports can be tested against physics rather than accepted on trust.
Explore modelling →About
Detection is not diagnosis
A monitoring system does not measure the ground. It measures a property of a sensor coupled to the ground, and how honest that coupling is decides what the data can support. Satellite radar answers where something is moving. Acoustic sensing answers that an event happened. Neither answers why, how deep, or how fast, and those are the questions a maintenance decision actually turns on.
GeoMonix works on that gap: specifying schemes so they can answer a question, reviewing schemes other people have proposed, and reading the data that comes back with a model of the ground in mind. Every engagement is independent and vendor-neutral.
About the practiceCore expertise
- Independent review of monitoring proposals
- Monitoring specification & scheme design
- Interpretation of distributed sensing data
- Calibration & independent ground truth
- Distributed fibre-optic sensing (DFOS) & SHM
- Finite-element modelling of soil-structure interaction
Insights
Notes from the field
Practical writing on monitoring, sensing and the engineering behind it.
Detection is not diagnosis: what distributed sensing actually measures
Where the naive reading of DAS, distributed strain, DTS and InSAR fails, and six questions to ask before a scheme is bought.
Read article →How distributed fibre-optic sensing works
Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering: what they measure and which to choose.
Read article →Choosing the right sensors for monitoring
Strain gauges, accelerometers, fibre optic and vibrating wire compared, to help you decide.
Read article →Have a project, a brief or a question?
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