Modern Technology Needed for Deficient Bridges
"Technology to protect public safety and help financially strapped Transportation Departments stretch their limited funds," commented Peter Vanderzee, CEO of LifeSpan Technologies. "Every bridge that is classified as structurally deficient should have a technically appropriate structural health monitoring system deployed. Given the subjectivity and variability of visual inspections, monitoring structurally deficient bridges should be considered the minimum standard of care."
LifeSpan technologies, a corporation who does the dirty work, providing a variety of monitoring systems for structures with defects, like "deficient bridges," is currently working on solutions for these bridges. This corporation has issued a new white paper, explaining the importance of installing economic friendly sensors in deficient bridges. Although visual inspections have worked for some time, it is hard to keep repeating these inspections and after the recent collapse, the overall stability of these inspections is also left questionable.
In the economy today, funding is definitely tight as the budget for bridges continues to dwindle, but bridge safety is very important and after the wake of this incident, more funding should be in place in every state. Other budgets who have seeped into bridge money include Medicare, other debt services, as well as Social Security.
So Why this new technology for bridges now? Why are visual inspections no longer good enough. Life Span Technologies has actually been providing sensors for bridges for quite a while now but a problem with the bridges was never recognized because nothing as dramatic as this recent bridge collapse has made any top government member think twice about bridge safety. The government did not think that spending money on bridge sensors was a necessary investment.
"LifeSpan Technologies and nPhase have been monitoring bridges and other structures together for several years," according to Steve Pazol, VP & GM of nPhase, a QUALCOMM (QCOM) business.
According to Lifespan, visual inspections are just not enough because they are not done frequently enough to manage poorer bridges. A bridge that is older can really change pretty quickly due to wear and tear, weather conditions, as well as transporting more cars than the bridge was built to hold. The government should also avoid quick fixes, known as "emergency work," and should just get the job done right.
Why LifeSpan? They have obviously been at work trying to impose newer technology into bridges long before this recent incident which means they were on top of things with identifying this growing problem. This corporation's technology is modern day, using wireless communications, sensors, as well as real time information and engineering for poor bridges. A simple inspection or "emergency work" can not top this.
For more information about this corporation, there website is www.lifespantechnologies.com
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Published by Steven Tyler
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