Remote monitoring method of structure

• US 20040030507A1
• Filed: 07/03/2003
• Published: 02/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Top System Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Top System Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Kwang- Woo
• Application Number:
  US10/333,593
• Publication Number:
  US 20040030507A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/42
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 9/00 Measuring inclination, e.g. by clinometers, by levels

Abstract

Disclosed is a remote monitoring method which is capable of continuously sensing and checking amounts of deformation or amounts of inclination variation of respective unit structures such as tunnels, bridges, large buildings and so on and rapidly carrying out a safety diagnosis for the corresponding structure with the deformation and inclination variation amount data to thereby display the safety diagnosis result on two-dimensional or three-dimensional moving picture screen, whereby an unexpected collapse of the structure can be previously prevented. The remote monitoring method is capable of sensing deformation values and inclination of respective unit structures caused due to an external pressure on the wall surfaces or columns of the respective unit structures such as bridges, tunnels or large buildings, comparing and analyzing the sensed resulting data and an initially measured data to emulate the compared and analyzed data on two or three-dimensional moving picture screen to thereby determine a safety diagnosis for the structure, whereby the information of the degree of danger of the structure can be in real time transmitted to a monitoring system of the structure and to corresponding government and public offices or the relevant organization.

Claims

1. A remote monitoring method of a structure, comprising the steps of:

installing a plurality of controllers to which two-axle inclination sensors sensing the configuration of the ground or the state of the ground on which respective unit structures are positioned are attached on the wall surfaces or columns of said respective unit structures to thereby measure amounts of deformation and degrees of inclination of said respective unit structures and building a data base with the resulting data in respective unit structure control units and an Internet server;

converting the values of deformation and the values of variation of the inclination on the wall surfaces or the columns sensed by said two-axle inclination sensors attached on said plurality of controllers into digital signals to thereby transmit the digital signals to said respective unit structure control units via a power line modem, a balanced-to-unbalanced transmission line or a small output radio modem connected to said plurality of controllers;

comparing and analyzing initially measured data of said respective unit structures that are built as the data base and the values of deformation and the values of variation of the inclination on the wall surfaces or the columns of said respective unit structures inputted by said two-axle inclination sensors in said respective unit structure control units to thereby transmit the resulting data to said Internet server via Internet or a public communication telephone network;

carrying out an emulation in said Internet server for the amounts of variation and the degrees of inclination of said respective unit structures, based upon the real-time measured data, the analysis data and the initially measured data received from said respective unit structure control units, on two or three-dimensional moving picture screen according to programming to thereby determine safety diagnoses of said respective unit structures and transmitting the safety diagnoses result to monitoring systems installed in said respective unit structure control units and the output of necessary steps and the degree of danger to corresponding government and public offices or the relevant organization via said Internet or said public communication telephone network in real time; and

transmitting the signal receiving data by periods at said Internet server to said two-axle inclination sensors and said respective unit structure control units to thereby check whether a system operates or not.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said controllers to which said two-axle inclination sensors are attached converts various kinds of signals inputted from said two-axle inclination sensors into the digital signals adequate for the transmission through said Internet or the public communication telephone network, thereby transmitting and receiving the digital signals to/from said respective unit structure control units via said power line modem, said balanced-to-unbalanced transmission line or said small output radio modem.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said respective unit structures are bridges, tunnels or large multiple-purpose buildings having frequent calls by a large number of users.

4. The method of any of claims 1 to 3, wherein each of said monitoring systems installed in said respective unit structure control units comprises a mode dividing unit composed of a safety mode, a compensation mode, a warning mode, an avoiding mode and an error mode in accordance with the amounts of deformation and the variation amounts of the inclination of said respective unit structures and the operation of said two-axle inclination sensors and a display unit displaying a corresponding display lamp, a warning sound, a sensing position and a sensing time according to the corresponding mode.