GEODATA Austria is a leading supplier of integrated, IT-based solutions and innovative services in tunnel surveying, geotechnical, structural and environmental instrumentation and monitoring. Since its inception in 1987, the company has been engaged in developing and building state-of-the art software for monitoring and project construction data management.
GEODATA’s survey and monitoring group is an innovative supplier of products and services, allowing the stakeholders comprehensive use of high-quality information from different sources that is made available anytime when needed. The reliable provision of such information is a key factor for decision making, controlling risk, and ensuring safety and economic efficiency not only during construction, but also in the operational phase.
With GEODATA, construction agencies and stakeholders have an innovative partner at their disposal that provides tailor-made IT-based solutions and services, based on vast experience gained in numerous projects around the world.
GEODATA has contributed to international tunnelling projects on all continents including inner urban metro construction sites in the cities of Athens, Bielefeld, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Delhi, Dublin, Fuerth, Istanbul, Leipzig, Linz, London, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Sofia, Sydney, Thessaloniki, Tel Aviv, Vienna and Washington. In India, GEODATA has delivered EUPALINOS/KRONOS platforms and related services in geotechnical and structural monitoring to all metro projects, a large number of road/rail tunnelling projects and underground caverns including the Padur crude oil storage cavern.
Special features of GEODATA’S KRONOS monitoring data management platform
- It is a well proven web-based data integration platform for the acquisition, administration, visualisation and analysis of underground construction works.
- It ensures safe and economic construction and maintenance of road, rail, metro and other infrastructure projects. The system assists both the contractors and clients in reducing risks in construction by providing advanced monitoring and alarming possibilities.
- It provides an easy, reliable and secure 24×7 web-based data access for central administration and comprehensive analysis of data from geodetics, environmental monitoring, building monitoring, tunnel boring machines, etc. The services provided include automatic monitoring, reporting and alarming services.
- It ensures clear and transparent data storage and high availability.
- KRONOS is based on the latest information and monitoring technologies and comes with user interfaces tailored to the requirements of the users.
- The system supports the automatic collection and online transfer of data from practically all kinds of geo-monitoring sensors such as inclinometers, extensometers, total stations, crack meters, strain meters, load cells, environmental sensors, noise and vibration sensors.
- Intelligent algorithms for outlier detection, consistency checks, etc. ensure the highest monitoring data quality for geotechnical interpretation purposes. Smart data processing can be performed and visualisations produced optimally support data analysis.
- Data import and export functions allow for the data exchange in different formats and international standards.
- An ideal tool for quality assurance and control during construction, and for ensuring health/safety of work force, third parties and structures.
- In addition to the management of instrumentation and monitoring data, all other project-related data can be handled, such as maps, tunnel axes and cross-sections, data from building condition surveys, data and reports from geological and geophysical reports, site investigations, construction progress data, etc.
EUPALINOS: The best software for NATM monitoring
For over 30 years now, GEODATA’s EUPALINOS software has been a powerful tool for all surveying and geodetic monitoring tasks related with underground works. GEODATA’s tunnel information and alarm system, KRONOS, was introduced in 2007 and is being continuously updated to meet customer’s requirements. Today, the largest construction projects rely on KRONOS for the latest state-of-the-art information technologies for safe and economic construction.
After sales support
GEODATA provides full support all through the project execution period. It can post an engineer from its office in India to a work site for providing support in uploading the database at site. From Austria, the support consist of database managers, geotechnical, geological, surveying and IT experts. Technical support from Austria is provided throughout the licensing period of the software. Besides, it also provides help via a ticketing system, video conferencing, emails, phone and remote desktop application.
For further information, contact V.K. Rastogi, country head, GEODATA Ziviltechnikergesellschaft mbH, at 011-42631298 or 09839073032 or Vijay.Rastogi@geodata.com (India office) or at office@geodata.at (Austria head office)
GEODATA’S KRONOS monitoring data management platform
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