Geo-hazards may be caused by human activities or natural events. Whether those hazards are induced by human activity or natural hazards, they have an economic, human and environmental impact, which cannot be neglected. As an example, landslides are among the most widespread hazards on Earth causing billions of dollars in damage and thousands of deaths and injuries each year around the world, and Europe has the second highest incidence of landslide casualties of any other continent. As well, recent accidents in European cities induced by construction works raised the awareness for a better control of monitoring data, and enhanced services for decision support.
In SANY, the geo-hazards pilot focuses on hazards related to construction works in dense urban areas. Indeed, with the expansion of urban areas and the densification of population and transport networks of those areas, construction and rehabilitation works on structures have become more frequent, thus the population is exposed to higher risks. There is therefore a critical need for a better management of geotechnical risk in such a context.
Moreover, monitoring systems and sensor management software installed on a construction site are usually proprietary, and vary from one provider to the other, thus multiplying data sources and information. With respect to those limitations, the Geo-hazard application intends to provide an easy and fast access to sensor data, independently from the sources, and the possibility to merge that information through fusion and modelling services, in order to offer synthetic and comprehensive information to the end-user.
