SGAM – Smart Geotechnical Asset Management

Abstract

SGAM (Smart Geotechnical Asset Management) is a service provided through a web-platform running the cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) or via API to connect external systems with our service. It represents an innovative and semi-automatic decision-making supporting system for asset management and predictive maintenance purposes to improve the financial resilience of assets, taking advantages of innovative data-fusion algorithms and satellite Earth Observation (EO) technologies (e.g., A-DInSAR and PhotomonitoringTM). SGAM focuses on the risks related to structures and infrastructures, analysing their interaction with the local geological and environmental context, by automatically evaluating the direct or potential future interferences with geohazards (e.g., landslides, floods, fires). The service aims to support Decision Makers in defining and prioritizing the maintenance operations based on the asset vulnerability and loss scenarios. This goal is reached through the integration of the big amount of archived and newly acquired EO data, the available worldwide and regional geodatabases, the information collected by field surveys or other ground-based Structural Health Monitoring and Geotechnical/Geomorphological Monitoring systems, and the proven scientific know-how and experience of the proponent team on geohazards effects in the civil engineering field. SGAM is also designed to be able to implement satellite products from new future space missions, ensuring a vision oriented to the maximum exploitation of the most recent technologies. These components are managed and analysed by specific Process Automation solutions, based on Artificial Intelligence, allowing for a redundant first-level risk-based priority action assessment for cost-effective and optimized maintenance investments.