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Independent review, specification and interpretation
Most of the risk in a monitoring investment is committed at specification, long before any data exists, and most of the value is realised at interpretation, long after the installers have left. GeoMonix works at both ends, independently of whoever supplies the equipment.
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Clear, scoped ways to work together
Every engagement is fixed-scope and independent. The sensible way in is usually small, a call or a review, before scaling into a full scheme.
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Independent review & second opinion
An independent check of a monitoring specification, a supplier proposal or a contractor submission, before procurement commits the budget.
Monitoring data interpretation
Distributed fibre-optic, acoustic and conventional sensor output read against ground and structural behaviour, with the mechanism identified rather than assumed.
Scoping & advisory call
A focused half-day to review your problem and recommend the right measurement strategy, with a short written summary and next steps.
Monitoring specification & scheme design
Distributed fibre-optic sensing (DFOS) and structural health monitoring specified from the question to be answered, through to installation detail and the validation plan.
Numerical modelling (FEA)
ABAQUS finite-element analysis, including soil-structure interaction, calibrated and validated against measured data to test whether a proposed mechanism is plausible.
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A second opinion that is free to say no
The organisation proposing a monitoring scheme is rarely the right one to judge whether it will work. GeoMonix reviews the specification, the proposal or the submission on the buyer's behalf, with no equipment to sell and no installation to defend.
Specification & proposal review
A written technical assessment of whether a proposed scheme can answer the question it is being bought to answer, and what it will cost to fix if it cannot.
- Which quantities are measured and which are inferred
- Whether the sensor to asset coupling is argued or assumed
- Whether temperature and strain can be separated
- Whether false-positive behaviour has been characterised
- Whether a validation strategy exists at all
Procurement & technical assurance support
Support for the buying process itself, so competing bids can be compared on engineering substance rather than on the confidence of the claims.
- Technical requirements & acceptance criteria
- Comparison of competing supplier proposals
- Questions to put to a bidder before award
- Review of a disputed or surprising dataset
Interpretation & diagnosis
From a signal to a mechanism
Satellite radar answers where the ground is moving. Acoustic sensing answers that an event occurred. Neither answers why, how deep or how fast, and inferring cause from a strain profile is an inverse problem with more than one solution. Separating those solutions is the work.
Reading distributed sensing data
Interrogator output read against a model of the ground and the structure, so a feature in the data is attributed to a mechanism with the competing explanations ruled out rather than ignored.
- Strain transfer correction from cable to ground
- Temperature and strain de-coupling
- Separating settlement, erosion and boundary effects
- Time-lapse comparison against a known-good baseline
Calibration, ground truth & analytics
Independent measurement to check what a scheme reports, and the Python and MATLAB pipelines that turn a long record into trends and condition assessment.
- Calibration & validation strategy
- Independent reference measurement design
- Time-series & statistical analysis
- Condition assessment & technical reporting
Specification & scheme design
Schemes specified backwards from the question
A monitoring scheme is designed from the decision it has to inform, not from the instrument that is available. That means fixing the question, the mechanism, the required resolution and the validation plan before any hardware is chosen.
Fibre-optic sensing
Specification and advisory for distributed fibre-optic sensing (DFOS) across infrastructure, buried assets, industrial equipment and the built environment.
- Interrogation method selection: Rayleigh, Brillouin, Raman
- Cable selection for the mechanism of interest
- Sensor specification, layout & installation detail
- Reference fibre & temperature compensation design
Structural & condition monitoring
Conventional and hybrid instrumentation for structures, equipment and infrastructure, from planning through to long-term condition assessment.
- Instrumentation planning
- IoT & wireless sensor systems
- Acceptance criteria & alarm thresholds
- Long-term data management strategy
Numerical modelling
Finite-element analysis you can defend
Where a dataset admits more than one explanation, a model is how the candidates get tested. ABAQUS models built to answer a specific engineering question, calibrated against measured data and documented clearly enough for a checking engineer.
ABAQUS finite-element analysis
2D and 3D models for soil-structure interaction, pavement systems, buried infrastructure, foundations and slope stability.
- Model development & meshing
- Contact & soil-structure interaction
- Calibration & validation against data
- Sensitivity & parametric studies
Modelling support & review
Independent review of existing models, debugging convergence issues, and mentoring teams new to FEA.
- Model audit & verification
- Convergence troubleshooting
- Method selection advice
- Clear technical reporting
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Assessment and documentation
Two adjacent services that often sit alongside a monitoring engagement.
Infrastructure assessment
Pavement condition evaluation, buried infrastructure assessment and risk-based asset management advisory, informed by measurement rather than inspection alone.
- Pavement condition assessment
- Buried utility evaluation
- Asset management strategy
- Maintenance prioritisation
Technical writing
Publication-quality documentation for engineering teams, written by engineers who understand the subject rather than a communications function.
- Monitoring specifications
- Method statements
- Technical reports
- White papers
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Describe the problem in plain terms and GeoMonix will give an honest view of whether, and how, it can help.
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