BridgeWatch® Modular makes critical structure monitoring affordable to all asset managers.

JF SME Testing's BridgeWatch® is deployed on some of the world's largest and most strategically important infrastructure to provide real-time remote monitoring information and warnings of impending structural issues.

In doing so it helps operators protect public safety and enable cost savings through planned and proactive maintenance. BridgeWatch® is used to protect major bridges across the UK motorway network, as well as strategic infrastructure such as its planned deployment on Scotland's new Forth Crossing.

Until now the capital costs of implementation has tended to restrict the use of remote monitoring technology to higher value strategic infrastructure. In order to make its benefits available to the public and private sector operators of smaller buildings, bridges and tunnels, JF SME Testing is today announcing the latest generation of its service, known as BridgeWatch® Modular.

With zero set-up, installation and equipment costs, customers of the new BridgeWatch® Modular service contract to pay a fixed monthly fee for remote structural monitoring. In exchange they receive online accessible reports of their structures, customised to their own specific requirements – including, for example, the use of SMS or e-mail alarms as an alert to signs of possible structural problems. All equipment is installed and maintained by JF SME Testing and remains its responsibility, so costs are entirely predictable and fixed from the outset.

Simon Whitford, managing director of JF SME Testing Monitoring, commented on this saying:

JF SME Testing wins structural health contract