A Complete Dam Management Platform
Kinemetrics Management Infrastructure Platform for Dams
KMIDam is a complete dam management platform designed to help you improve Long-term Monitoring, Routine Operations, and Emergency Response for your entire portfolio of dams.
KMIDam delivers critical information providing an immediate understanding of the impact of earthquakes and other events, supports long-term structural health and dam performance monitoring, and enables better informed decision making to ensure safe and compliant operations.
The platform supports practically any type of sensor to monitor and process strong-motion data, induced seismicity around the dam and reservoir, structural ambient vibration, and more, ensuring that you can support the information and monitoring needs of all your stakeholders through a single comprehensive tool.
Dams are high potential risk infrastructures, designed to operate safely for many decades and to withstand exceptional loads. However, during their lifespan, the structural condition of dams can be affected by progressive deterioration phenomena or by earthquakes, which can cause damage that leads to a loss of serviceability or compromises structural integrity.
The catastrophic consequences that can result from dam failures due to earthquakes and issues related to operational and management actions, make reliable assessment of dam safety indispensable, even in regions with low seismicity.
Decisions associated with dams are too important to make without the right information, and identifying the correct management decisions can be difficult, especially when time and accuracy are critical. In these situations, reliable observation of structural behavior during day-to-day operations and emergency events is crucial to fully assess safety, validate design assumptions, predict earthquake resistance of the structure, and understand the gradual changes to the dam over time.
Is the dam safe and compliant with regulations? Does it require maintenance actions? Are structural evaluations required? How do you know? Is real-world data driving your decision-making process?
The KMIDam Platform is a specialized and customizable system that provides unmatched instrumentation and software systems to deliver continual easy, reliable access to all the information required to responsibly manage your entire portfolio of dams during day-to-day operations and emergency events.
KMIDam puts a complete dam management and earthquake response platform under your control.
Manage your portfolio of dams with a combination of smart sensing technology, real-time strong-motion data processing, automated event alerting and reporting, structural vibration assessments, and predictive computations. KMIDam delivers a comprehensive set of information tools in a solution tailored to your unique needs to ensure safe and compliant operational continuity.
Process strong-motion data and deliver information in real-time to immediately understand the potential impact of seismic and other events on the dam. Correlate seismic activity with reservoir level variations to monitor the impact of reservoirs on the dam and surrounding regions.
Ensure continuous and reliable dam behavior assessment over time, supported by measured data and predictive computations, to understand gradual changes to your structures and address their impact before they become costly problems.
Deliver reports containing actionable information directly to operators, engineers, and dam owners, to eliminate guesswork and enable better-informed decision making.
Manage the unique requirements and monitoring systems of all your dams from a single tool to maintain operational continuity.
KMIDam RSM performs automated structural assessments to provide continuous information, rapid notifications and state of health reports by leveraging a combination of smart sensing technology and predictive engineering computations. Following a comprehensive evaluation, an effective structural health monitoring solution is provided, based on the specific needs of your structure and stakeholders.
KMIDam supports practically any type of sensor, to monitor and process strong-motion data, ambient vibration,
reservoir-induced seismicity, and more, ensuring that any kind of monitoring data you require is available to you. The inclusion of world-class Kinemetrics instrumentation ensures that your system will have maximum data return and unmatched reliability.
KMIDam RSM detects local or regional seismic events and delivers real-time information to understand the potential impact of earthquakes on the dams and their facilities, enabling efficient earthquake emergency response.
KMIDam AER puts a comprehensive set of reporting tools under the control of operators and dam engineers. During an earthquake or other event, KMIDam detects structural motion and automatically provides alerts on the exceedance of design or site-specific parameters, such as for Operating Basis Earthquake (OBE) or Safety Evaluation Earthquake (SEE), for an immediate understanding of the possible impact on the dam.
Information from sensors and real-time calculations provide actionable information on the level of impact, and the required response steps. Decision-making is simplified and guesswork is eliminated by immediate access to critical information tailored to the unique aspects of your specific dam.
KMIDam LTM delivers a continuous ambient vibration monitoring system and digital twin technology to provide a reliable stream of data for long-term structural health monitoring and to support data-driven decision making throughout the lifespan of the dam.
Operational Modal Analysis is used to automatically estimate the main modal parameters of the dam, which are correlated with reservoir level and thermal variations, operational conditions, and more for dam performance assessment. The evolution of natural frequencies is monitored over time and compared with reference values or predictive models to track the potential gradual degradation of the dam’s structural condition and trigger preventive maintenance or inspection when required.
Digital Twins are also used to track the behavior of the dam over time. These models are continually updated by data collected by the long-term vibration monitoring system and other sensors. By leveraging digital twins, KMIDam delivers access to a realistic digital replica for immersive dam visualization and to view historical digital records. Simulations of normal operating conditions and event-related stressors are used to characterize the expected behavior of the dam. Discrepancies between the expected behavior and the measured performance of the physical dam may indicate damage or vulnerabilities.
By measuring performance over time, the lifespan of the structure can be better understood, and potential failure mechanisms can be identified early, enabling appropriate preventative measures to be taken.
The better you understand the long-term performance of your dams, the better prepared you are to make management decisions and react to changing needs before they become costly.
KMIDam CCS provides a redundant high-end data center that houses tools for monitoring the state-of-health of all deployed hardware, real-time data acquisition, and processing software systems with automated reporting and dissemination functions. Information and alerting are provided for each connected sensor and system via a robust software control panel, simplifying routine maintenance procedures, and ensuring that any issues are identified before they become expensive problems.
The Platform’s secure data repository monitors and delivers information relating to the seismic and structural monitoring system for each connected dam. All data associated with operational tasks are available and presented to support maintenance decision-making and priority ranking.
In addition, KMIDam can be integrated with existing control systems via standard communications protocols. This minimizes the time and effort required to implement and commission KMIDam within your facilities.
The KMIDam platform was designed specifically to meet the needs of dam owners, operators, and engineers. We review your organizational needs and compliance requirements to ensure that you have the documentation you need to address internal procedures and external regulations.
Deployed in dozens of dam networks worldwide, KMIDam delivers the information you need to meet the needs of all your stakeholders. Having all relevant information at your fingertips provides increased confidence in your operational procedures, the safety of your dams, regulatory compliance, and your overall management decisions.
Since 1969, Kinemetrics, its subsidiaries, and partners have been the global market leaders in designing technologies, products, and solutions for monitoring earthquakes and their effects on people and structures. Our products represent the de facto world standards.