They have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the combined service, which includes supply, installation and maintenance of dam instrumentation, automation of data collection as well as verification and quality assurance.
The venture is designed to brings together Aurecon鈥檚 engineering and advisory capabilities in the water sector with Sixense鈥檚 instrumentation and data management services for dams and the surrounding environment.
Aurecon鈥檚 technical director for dams Bill Hakin said the partnership would create 鈥榟ealthy dams鈥� by ensuring the assets are continually monitored and their value is understood so that issues can be immediately addressed. 鈥淭he team will be building reports, dashboards and plans for dam owners and operators with the ability to set up alerts to inform emergency response plans, together with achieving optimal safety performance,鈥� he said.
鈥淚mportantly, we will also be creating solutions to improve the safety of dam monitoring and investigation work by allowing engineers to use remote technologies, including drones and satellite remote sensing 鈥� interferometry synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) 鈥� photogrammetry and laser scanning to assess issues without having to be on site.鈥�
Sixense鈥檚 managing director for Oceania, Eric Audig茅, said the team will be using data to make better decisions on dam safety and operations. 鈥淔rom data acquisition to data processing, storage, insights, reporting and visualisation, there is so much value that can be added from using dam data to inform ongoing engineering works and asset management and optimisation,鈥� he said.
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