Digging on or near a railway risks asset damage whether intentional or accidental. Construction works if not managed and carried out correctly can destabilise slopes, compromise foundations and alter water and drainage flows, with sometimes catastrophic results.
Sensonic Distributed Acoustic Sensing supplements traditional methods of protecting the permanent way by detecting and alerting operations teams of mechanised digging events.
The characteristic ground vibrations from diggers, excavators and other mechanised tools are listened for in real-time by sophisticated algorithms. When detected, the precise location of the alert can be relayed to operations teams to take appropriate action.
Someone digging up your railway? We’ll find and locate it before your train does.