Introducing the 1st monitoring system with Imaging

12 September 2008, 1:18pm

CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL, The Netherlands - Topcon has formed a partnership with the monitoring software provider Dr Bertges from Germany and the precise inclination sensor manufacturer Wyler from Switzerland. This cooperation brings together the technology and expertise from all three companies to offer the best, most versatile monitoring system available. It is the first monitoring system utilizing Topcon's innovative Imaging technology.

The system can be used in all types of monitoring projects, earth/structure stability, construction monitoring and even the long term monitoring of dams, bridges, railways or rock faces. "We have taken Topcon's Imaging Total Station Technology, added Wyler’s precision inclination sensors and combined it with Dr Bertges DC3 monitoring system", Ian Stilgoe, product marketing manager of Topcon comments. "By combining data from the Wyler sensors and Topcon Total Station or GNSS in the DC3 software range, we developed a solution which is truly pioneering: Imaged Monitoring."

Fully automated

The DC3 system is at the basis of this groundbreaking solution. Developed by Dr. Bertges it offers a fully automated surveying system for terrain or structure movements. It offers measuring, analysis and if needed alarming. The system focuses on monitoring buildings, potentially unstable slopes and earth movements using Topcon's precise positioning technology and Wyler’s sensors. It detects and models subsidence, tilt and valley convergence or divergence processes. Data transmission is done by radio-telemetry and GSM.

Real-time online

The communications and data acquisition system allows the link of DC3 software to different kinds of sensors and communication channels. Different kinds of sensors can be combined with each other: for instance a Total Station and GNSS sensors, inclination measurers, meteo and geosensors and even a webcam. DC3 consists of at least one central data processing unit and several external sensor control units. The acquisition of the sensor data by GNSS and Total-Stations may take place in a real-time, near-online and in offline mode. The data-exchange with the DC3 Software can also run online as well as offline.

Stable inclination measurement

Besides Topcon's Imaging Station; the Swiss company Wyler will offer its Zerotronic line of inclination sensors to complete the picture. The Zerotronic family allows very accurate long term monitoring of civil engineering objects like dams, buildings, tunnels, railroads or bridges. The two-dimensional inclination measuring sensors Zeromatic 2/1 and 2/2 are perfectly suitable for the monitoring of the smallest changes of the angle of inclination during longer periods. The digital sensors Zerotronic are characterized by the fact that measured values are transferred loss-free over large distances thanks to the digital bus system.

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