Creating Subsurface Strain Cross-Sections using Distributed Strain Sensing: Application to Working Platform Design A team from the Soga Research Group led by Ph.D. candidate Peter Hubbard is working with a team from Malcolm Drilling led by Peter Faust to assess the performance… Read More »Malcolm Drilling – Construction Equipment-Soil Interaction
CSI performed temperature and strain monitoring using point-based FBG and distributed fiber optic monitoring systems on a full-scale test pile for the Millennium Tower retrofit. The system involved two parallel monitoring systems – one consisting of multiple chains of FBG… Read More »Millennium Tower – Pile Load Testing – San Francisco, California
The UC Berkeley team performed strain monitoring of soil vertical displacements using distributed fiber optic sensing for a surcharge pre-load program on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. Unlike previous installations performed by the UC Berkeley team, the fiber… Read More »ENGEO – Embankment Settlement Monitoring – Treasure Island, California
CSI participated in a full-scale field test of grout piles using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) to measure strain and temperature development throughout the project. The project involved the construction and load testing of 5 drilled grout columns for a… Read More »Caltrans – Micropile monitoring – Eureka, California
CSI is working with EBMUD to develop a cutting-edge autonomous robotic tunnel inspection platform. This framework involves deploying state-of-the-art sensing technologies (3D stereo camera, 360 camera, and multi-gas sensors) on board a quadruped terrestrial robot (Boston Dynamics Spot). The platform… Read More »EBMUD – Robotic Tunnel Inspection with Boston Dynamics Spot
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a technology that can help to visualize underground objects without destructing the surface. This project aims to collaborate with the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and GeoSearch to quantify the value of this GPR-based… Read More »GeoSearch – Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) for Pipeline Detection & Augmented Reality (AR) Visualization
A pilot project of “Networked Geothermal” is conducted in Framingham, MA to explore the possibility of reducing carbon emissions through the district heating and cooling networks utilizing geothermal. By taking advantage of distributed fiber optic sensing technology, CSI conducted three… Read More »Boston Geothermal field monitoring
1. Fiber optics-based CO2 sensing Soga’s Research Group collaborate with Redondo Optics Inc to develop a multi-channel (4-sensing channels) fiber optic intensity radiometric interrogation system (FIRIS™-M400) which is suitable for the real-time monitoring of the light transmission status of ROI’s… Read More »CSI – DFOS-based gas sensing
CSI has been investigating how communities can use ground source heat pumps and other geothermal technologies to provide energy more sustainably. The University of California, Berkeley, is building a clean electrified heating and cooling plant utilizing shallow geothermal to cut down… Read More »UC Berkeley – Campus Geothermal Borehole Testing
The Soga Research Group/Center for Smart Infrastructure is working with EBMUD to develop a cutting-edge system for monitoring pipelines that cross active earthquake faults. Distributed fiber optic sensors were installed in 2022 along an approximately 200m alignment of two critical… Read More »EBMUD – Claremont Ave Pipeline Monitoring – Oakland, California