Structural monitoring
In the last years the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is adopted in many applications of various engineering fields: civil (bridges, dams, tunnels, buildings, airports, commercial/industrial facilities, offshore platforms, telecommunications lifelines, liquid and gases transmission systems, etc.), naval (cruising ships, luxury yacht, ports and harbors), aerospace (civil airplanes, unmanned air vehicles, military supersonic planes, space vehicles and stations). More info visit Activities.
Those high technology methods are able to predict structure failure conditions enough time before they happen. Fatigue stress is an important parameter especially on hard environment conditions structures.
OptoAdvance is able to provide specific tests to get long/short-terms on-line monitoring of structural parameters (displacements, pressure, strains, forces, vibrations) and thermal parameter. By using specific OptoAdvance demodulators our engineers are able to acquire the desired data and can elaborate them to offer to the customer a complete report.
Environmental monitoring
The modern civilization requests high quantity and high standard quality products. That is what has been worked on, especially about many kind of food and about what we breathe every day. That kind of development makes an efficient environmental monitoring necessary. Either liquid or air contaminating species must be detected by real time acquisition, even if only few traces of the polluting substances are present.
Many examples of application fields are to be considered. Probably, some of the most important are the quality of the atmosphere air and of the entire process which provides water for various uses. There are also other examples which interest every kind of drinks, from wine to fruit juices.
OptoAdvance is able to provide substances selective optical sensors, which are connected to high sensitivity refractometers that are able to acquire the desired data. Our engineers can elaborate them to offer to the customer a complete report and the possibility to make interventions in time.
Process monitoring
The today society has been basing its commercial surviving on high quantity and high standard quality products manufacturing. To satisfy the hard rules of economics more efficient process control methods have been requested. Automation techniques are one of the most important factor which make industrial processes successful.
Today most of manufacturing processes are managed by a specific control apparatus. That is to maximize the number of products per time unit and to reduce discarded pieces. At the same time the entire process control system can be connected to computers network to let the end user to manage it from remote work stations.
OptoAdvance is able to design or optimize an entire process control system. Typical applications might be industrial processes which uses oven, furnaces, CO2 or nitrogen cooling chambers, pressure and vacuum control, pieces movement systems and many other. The OptoAdvance engineers use specific loop systems (a sensing apparatus which manages directly an actuation one), by selecting the appropriate sensors.