Shrink-swell soils, like clay, expand when wet and shrink when dry. This can affect home foundations leading to significant structural damage & costly repairs.
Heave is when the soil swells & lifts the foundations.
Subsidence is when they drop due to soil shrinkage, settlement or erosion.
Monitoring floor level changes over time plays a significant role in addressing slab heave & subsidence.
Currently the industry standard approach to monitoring involves at best, bi-annual manual floor level or brick course surveys using Nivcomp or ZipPro altimeters (as pictured) or in some cases, surveyor grade digital levels.
Traditional monitoring requires repeated site visits by expensive, time poor engineers to take manual measurements
Floor level measurements taken every 6-12 months, provide very limited data, no context and result in calculated guesswork
Homeowners get frustrated by dismissive investigations and limited visible action. Poor experiences lead to reputational risk!
Long waits between inspections can result in problems getting worse, extended timelines & cost blowouts
The SLABsense Level Monitoring System utilises a number of sensors mounted on the floor, walls or ceilings of a property to detect their position relative to fixed 360-degree laser line datum points.
As the structure moves and the fixed laser line position remains steady, the sensors utilise Computer Vision & AI to detect and report the beam position each night.
Lasers and sensors automatically wake in unison once per night for <20 seconds to take their whole house measurements. The system is able to detect very fine movements at a resolution of <0.1mm and provides a visual record of detection for formal validation.
The patented approach allows simple yet effective measurement of multiple non-line of sight locations across a home, with reference back to a single primary datum point.
SLABsense Crack Monitors take daily measurements of wall or ceiling cracks opening or closing with X & Y coordinates mapped at a resolution of 0.05mm.
Daily rainfall data for the property's suburb is scraped from the BOM and charted against the collected movement data delivering unprecedented levels of granularity and context.
The SLABsense Dashboard maps all sensors on a floor plan and provides easy to ready graph and table data in addition to the visual record for confirmation & validation. It's mobile & desktop browser friendly. Our cloud platform mobile app adds notifications.
It's been specifically designed with Trade Partners in mind, allowing multiple properties and simple device activations & allocations.
All data can be easily exported to csv or xls files from a desktop browser.
ROB YOUNG
Rob has 14 years experience leading & designing IT services & service improvement activities for CSIRO.
He is certified in Management, Business Design, Innovation, Human-Centred Service Design and Design Thinking.
KYLIE MCEWAN
Kylie is a Director at Davidsons, a leading accounting and business advisory firm in Geelong.
Working in public practice since 1999, she is a CPA, Associate of the Taxation Institute of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in accounting and financial planning.
ANDREW MARCH
Andrew is our full stack developer with experience in ESP-IDF and is responsible for re-coding our new version 2 device firmware from the ground up.
GUILHERME COSTA
Gui is a software engineer with more than 10 years working in the technology field, including working for current our cloud platform provider Tago.io.
RENAE YOUNG
Renae builds and ships all our devices. She has experience as a top performer and assistant team lead at one of Geelong's largest distribution centres.
JASON MCLOUD - Director at Drillology
With over 50'000 sites tested and 33 years experience Jason has gained a deep knowledge and database of Melbourne and surrounds' geology and soil profiles.
He is a member & presenter at HEDRA and the Foundation and Footing Society of Victoria (FFSV).
ALEX SITARAS - Director at Genesis Consulting Engineers
Having previously established and managed Intrax Engineering's National Forensic Engineering Team, Alex is now in private practice.
He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (Civil, Structural, Leadership & Management), Expert Reporting & Witness for Insurance Claims & Forensic Engineering Investigations
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