Smart Engineering and Witeklab have recently established the company Concrete Sensoring for Sustainable Infrastructure (CSSI), with the aim of exploring and developing innovative technological solutions applied to concrete technology and the field of construction. The creation of CSSI culminates a trajectory of several years of collaboration between Witeklab-ChatuTech and Smart Engineering, a spin-off of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
In this new partnership, Smart Engineering contributes its extensive know-how in R&D&i and has experience in strategic advice and in the development of products and technical solutions for the construction of concrete structures. Witeklab, for its part, provides extensive experience in advanced sensoring and in the development of technological solutions based on telecommunications, electronics and integrated computer systems.
Last Thursday, CSSI was officially presented at DFactory Barcelona, led by various members of the company’s technical team: Albert de la Fuente, Professor at the UPC and CEO of Smart Engineering; Tai Ikumi, Head of Sensor Intelligence; David Boix, Postdoctoral Researcher expert in Sustainability; and Ignasi Cairó, CTO and Technological Director of Witeklab. The event was co-presented by Manel Torrentallé, CEO of Witeklab, and Pere Navarro, special delegate of the State in the Barcelona Free Trade Zone Consortium.
The CSSI team ofrered a presentation on the solution Monsec for remote monitoring of concrete setting in real time, originally developed jointly by Witeklab and Smart Engineering and which will be part of the CSSI solutions catalogue.
Monsec is a comprehensive solution for accurate, sustainable and real-time monitoring of the concrete curing process in construction projects, optimising project quality and efficiency.
The Monsec system uses wireless sensors placed in the mesh before the concrete is poured to record the temperature and relative humidity of the material at pre-determined intervals throughout the setting process. From the data obtained, it offers an accurate estimate of the evolution of the concrete’s strength in real time by presenting the data visually via an application. This allows the level of concrete curing in each section to be known at all times and ensures the quality of the concrete, thus saving time and costs and reducing CO2 emissions by facilitating the optimisation of the cement content of the dosages.
Monsec offers advantages for a wide range of applications in the construction industry such as building, civil engineering, paving, precast, shotcrete and mass concrete.
