AIS

Advanced Infrastructure Systems is defined here to refer to innovative systems, components, devices and processes that improve the performance and/or reduce the life-cycle cost of a broad range of physical infrastructure systems.

Examples of this are the construction phase, building commissioning, and structural health monitoring.

Construction Phase

During the construction phase, the use of a variety of sensor systems, and information and communication technologies (ICT), will make it possible to collect data and immediately determine the state of the project, what problems are emerging or are likely to emerge, and what should be done to mitigate those problems.

Building Commissioning

Building commissioning is conducted continuously using a wide range of sensor systems, some of which were deployed during the construction phase, to determine that the specified building performance is continuously maintained during building operation.

Structural Health Monitoring

Various data from highway bridges is continuously collected and analyzed to determine usage, performance, and condition of that bridge.

There are many technological developments and research projects that already support, or begin to support this vision:

• new extremely small and power efficient sensors and sensor systems,
• mobile and wearable computers and advanced human computer interfaces,
• new reliable and easily deployable communication mechanisms,
• new materials,
• >new abilities to simulate complex behavior,
• availability of semantically-rich data models,
• new methods to mine the large amount of data collected to identify emerging damage states and behaviors,
• formal model-based analysis and visualization approaches