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Structural Health Monitoring
Monitoring acceleration, strain, temperature, natural frequencies, damping and changes in structural behaviour.
Intelligent building technology
The building that understands itself.
SmartVCon is an intelligent smart building platform combining Structural Health Monitoring, Internet of Things technologies, energy optimisation, building automation and future Digital Twin applications.
Building Intelligence Overview
System concept
Structure
Monitored
Energy
Optimised
Data
Connected
One connected platform
Engineering intelligence for safer and more efficient buildings.
SmartVCon is being designed as a modular platform capable of transforming real building measurements into useful engineering information for structural assessment, energy management and intelligent building operation.
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Energy Management
Evaluating energy consumption and supporting future optimisation of heating, cooling, lighting and other building services.
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Smart Automation
Connecting sensors, cloud services and intelligent controls to create adaptive building systems based on environmental and operational data.
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Digital Twin Vision
Establishing the foundation for a virtual building model that compares predicted structural behaviour with real measurements.
Civil Engineering Research
From structural theory to a working prototype.
The first development phase focuses on reinforced concrete buildings and combines structural dynamics, Finite Element Modelling, embedded sensing, IoT communication, cloud data management and mobile visualisation.
- Structural dynamics and modal identification
- Finite Element Modelling and analytical comparison
- Accelerometer and strain-sensor integration
- Firebase cloud infrastructure
- Flutter mobile and web monitoring application
Research today. Intelligent infrastructure tomorrow.
SmartVCon is currently being developed as part of a Civil Engineering research project at Frederick University. The undergraduate project will establish and validate the core Structural Health Monitoring prototype.
Future postgraduate research in Electrical Engineering will investigate advanced electronics, signal processing, Artificial Intelligence, energy optimisation, intelligent HVAC control, custom hardware and complete Digital Twin implementation.