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Tunnel Monitoring System
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First there were roads on which vehicles would run and then there were bridges to cross the rivers. But before the advent of bridges, another route that was laid to cross the gruesome mountains was tunnels. Gradually, with the development in technology, underwater tunnels were also built in lieu of over-the-river bridges, thus paving the way for modern underground transport systems. Later, tunnel transport also developed in the cities that eased the complexity of laying different kinds of transport modes in one stack.
The concept could be well understood by imagining underground metro link tunnel over which a mountain stands. The mountain is also dug to form a tunnel to lay roads for vehicular transport. Though these tunnels, small and big were built in numbers counting to hundreds in some cities, monitoring the health of these tunnels became a cumbersome task.
Tunnel monitoring system and software were thus built to monitor the maintenance of these tunnels but the initial devices made for such use were not convenient for use due to a number of reasons. Firstly, all the systems made then were based on individual aspects of the tunnel and were not universal for all the tunnels. Secondly, the sensors used in the monitoring were wires and did not have an interface to understand the data.
Overcoming these flaws, modern systems now use wireless sensors that are more durable than the conventional wires. To better understand the data, automated data collection and integration technology was used to display values calculated by the sensors. This has set the pace for maintenance and management of tunnels in a modern and more efficient way, a statement that may be proven by the large-scale use of the monitoring system for tunnels.
