David T' Lau, Carleton University

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Bridge Infrastructure Management (BIM) Safety
and Security
CANARIE's Network-Enabled Platforms
Workshop"Convergence of Cyber-Infrastructure
and the Next-Generation Internet June 26-27,
2007 - Ottawa, Ontario

• David T. Lau, Carleton University
• Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University
• Biswajit Nandy, Solana Networks

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Introduction

• Safety and Security
• Bridge collapse causes
• catastrophic loss
• Montreal Bridge collapse is
• one of many examples
• Renewal of aging bridge and
• other public infrastructures
• -- 100B in Canada alone
• Management of Bridge Infrastructure can save life
  and reduce maintenance cost
• Remote monitoring and management of bridges can
  be facilitated by the power of Cyber-
  infrastructure

Montreal Bridge Collapse, October 2006 Source CBC

• Monitored data can be of various types sensor
  data, video data, acoustic, visual inspection
  etc.
• Monitoring of large number of bridges, manage and
  making information available at finger tips,
  automated health condition assessments and
  management, maintenance and emergency response
  are various facets of this problem.

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Confederation Bridge

• 12.9 km long
• 43 main spans of 250 m each
• Typical height 40m above mean sea level
• 100 years design service life

• accelerometers, tiltmeters, strain gauges,
  thermal couples, material properties etc

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Structural Health Monitoring of Plaza Bridge
David T. Lau Dept of Civil and Environmental
EngCarleton University
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Intelligent Infrastructure
1. Data Acquisition
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2. Data Processing
3. Data Mining,GIS
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4. Knowledge Base
2.
5. Decision Support
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6. Alert System
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Vision

• Safety and Security
• Critical Infrastructure and Asset management
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Information, Integration, Internet, Innovation
• Foundation of Virtual Organization of BIM
• BIM utilizes Cyber-infrastructure (Advanced
  networks and web technology) for
• Collection of information
• Amalgamation and assimilation of information
• Processing and interpretation of Information
• Dissemination of information
• Providing decision support on management and
  emergency response
• Real-time
• Geographically distributed information and
  resources

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BIM VO Partners

• Stakeholder
• PWGSC
• S. Foo
• Infrastructure owner and end-user of information,
  Stakeholder of safety and security, Custodian of
  public asset
• Knowledge Providers
• Carleton, Civil Engineering
• D. Lau
• Engineering information extraction vibration,
  corrosion, Data visualization, Data management,
  Instrumentation and sensor array
• Calgary, Civil Engineering
• T. Brown
• Engineering information extraction ice load,
  Data base development
• Taiwan
• K. C. Chang
• Data mining and simulation tools
• Europe
• H. Wenzel
• Decision support and management tools
• Middleware Developers
• Solana Networks

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Policy

• VO Management policy
• Resource Commitments from VO partners
  Processing, Storage, Communication, Expertise
• Risk mitigation plan
• Security policy
• Information sharing
• Execution Plan
• Functional requirements
• Specification of application and middleware
• High-level design
• Development
• Integration
• Deployment
• Maintenance

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Resources

• Various types of resources sensor, computing,
  storage, communication and human
• Sensors (data source)
• Monitoring bridge characteristics
• Computing
• Data compression before transmission
• Analyzing data for engineering inspection or
  processing data for real time visualization
• Storage
• Storing data for analyzing long term trends
• Classification and management of data for
  effective data discovery and retrieval
• Caching for improved performance
• Replication of data for load balancing and
  increased reliability
• Communication
• Components e.g. lightpath, Routed paths or VLAN
• Human
• Personnel with expertise in various domains

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Resource Management Middleware

• Resources
• Dedicated
• Allocated on demand
• Need resource management middleware to
  coordinate, direct and allocate resources for
  effective operation and problem solving.
• Will allow seamless communication among resources
• Matchmaking which resources to use for
  satisfying a request
• Scheduling online sequencing of requests for
  same resource

Resource Management Middleware
Processors
Secondary Repositories
Primary Storage
Ottawa
Taiwan
Europe
Human
Calgary
Communication Infrastructure
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Resource Management Middleware

• Resources
• Dedicated
• Allocated on demand
• Need a resource management middleware with a
  portal for request submission.
• Will allow seamless communication among resources
• Matchmaking which resources to use for
  satisfying a request
• Scheduling online sequencing of requests for
  same resource

Resource Management Middleware
Processors
Secondary Repositories
Primary Storage
Ottawa
Taiwan
Europe
Human
Calgary
Communication Infrastructure
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CANARIE Funding

• Development of platform middleware and
  integration with network
• Development of distributed resource allocation
  and management middleware
• Development of application middleware
• Data visualization of distributed data sources
• Data visualization of distributed hybrid data
• Integration of application services
• Tele-operation of sensors
• Equipment for Cyber-infrastructure
• Development of VO management tools
• Operation and maintenance of VO

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Conclusions

• Development of Bridge Infrastructure Management
  will facilitate
• Safety and security
• Emergency preparedness and response
• Preventive maintenance and cost savings
• Leadership in innovative use of advanced networks
  in infrastructure management applications
• Assembled a strong Team
• A team of experts with domain knowledge and track
  record of Bridge monitoring research and
  practices
• Experts on resource allocation and management
• A company with extensive development expertise in
  Web Technology and Networking.