Smart Structures Selects ThingWorx for Smart Infrastructure Monitoring

EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE–

ThingWorx™,
the provider of the first software application platform for the
connected world, today announced a strategic partnership with Smart
Structures Inc. , a global leader in wireless solutions for smart
infrastructure monitoring. The partnership will deliver solutions to
improve the quality of bridge pilings, foundations, and other concrete
structures, while reducing construction costs and improving safety.

This partnership addresses a growing need in the US – cost effectively
building out a smarter physical infrastructure. Despite billions of
dollars in federal, state, and local funds directed toward the
maintenance of existing bridges, 69,223 bridges—11.5 percent of total
highway bridges in the U.S. —are classified as «structurally deficient,»
requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation, or replacement,
according to a 2010 report from the Federal Highway Administration. In
the years since the report was issued, America's infrastructure
challenges appear to be accelerating. However, new technologies,
including wireless, Internet-connected sensors could improve the state
of infrastructure, introduce more efficient means of monitoring assets,
extend the service life of these assets, and enhance public safety.

"The number of wireless sensors and other Internet-connected devices
deployed across the country to improve infrastructure management is
growing rapidly, but what's been missing is an effective platform for
managing and analyzing condition reporting data," says Russ Fadel,
Co-founder and CEO at ThingWorx. "Our connected application platform
serves as a complement to Smart Structures' field-proven technology and
solutions, and it will enhance the value that construction companies,
bridge designers, municipalities, and governments derive from remote
infrastructure monitoring."

Smart Structures' SmartPile® Embedded Data Collector (EDC technology
uses software to process data from wireless embedded sensors embedded
within concrete piles used in foundations. The system is used during
construction to ensure the quality and integrity of the structure. When
properly planned in, these sensors can also provide post-construction
long term load and event monitoring. The ThingWorx platform will provide
the critical software and AlwaysOn communications infrastructure for the
SmartPile system, allowing Smart Structures to securely connect its
remote workstations to a centralized, cloud-based information database
and Internet portal where sensor data is stored.

"Smart Structures' technology and solutions have already demonstrated
the benefits of smart infrastructure in the field, and we look forward
to building more value into our solutions by adding the power of
ThingWorx," says Tom Chiarella, CEO at Smart Structures, Inc. «We chose
ThingWorx because we were able to extend our current on-line system
dramatically faster than with previous generation tools. These new
technologies are changing the way we interact with our physical world,
and by allowing objects and machines to send us data about their
performance, our customers will be better prepared to react and respond
to deficiencies in strength and integrity while minimizing costs and
risk.»

The partnership with ThingWorx extends Smart Structures' core
capabilities beyond sensor data collection, providing them with a
modern, Web 2. 0-based platform, including innovative collaboration and
intelligence tools that will allow Smart Structures to rapidly build
Internet dashboards that allow authorized users to download, analyze,
review, and generate reports on sensor data that is captured during
bridge construction and through ongoing monitoring.

As the system evolves, the Smart Structures solution has the ability to
detect long-term changes that can indicate corrosion, erosion, and other
leading indicators of structural deficiencies. This will enable state
and federal governments to subscribe to the Smart Structures online data
and application services to obtain data from the embedded sensors for
health monitoring, maintenance and repair management, homeland defense,
emergency response, and other critical needs. The system can also
provide real-time alerts on pending structural deficiencies to enable a
new level of situational awareness for local, state, and federal public
safety and security agencies.

ThingWorx™ is a privately held company that provides the first software
application platform designed for today’s connected world. The ThingWorx
platform combines the key functionality of Web 2.0, Search, and Social
Collaboration, and applies it to the world of «Things», including
connected products, machines, and industrial equipment. Businesses use
the ThingWorx Platform to rapidly deliver innovative applications and
connected solutions in markets such as manufacturing, utilities, and
energy, as well as in emerging «Internet of Things» applications,
including smart cities, smart grid, agriculture, transportation, and
Machine-to-Machine (M2M. For more information, please visit our website
at www.thingworx. com
and our blog at www.thingworx.com/blog
or follow us on Twitter @ThingWorx.

Smart Structures’ advanced sensing and monitoring technology enables
clients to optimize the design, construction and operation of the
nation's infrastructure including bridges, ports, and industrial
processing facilities. Our first product, the SmartPile® system,
improves the quality of concrete foundations while reducing the overall
cost of the substructure and improving construction efficiency and
safety. This is accomplished through the company's field-proven
SmartPile® Embedded Data Collector (EDC technology, which has
revolutionized the structural monitoring industry by combining wireless
embedded sensors within concrete piles with software that processes the
sensor data during driving, thus providing complete real-time quality
and condition reporting throughout the entire lifecycle starting with
validating the quality of the concrete mix, fabrication of concrete
components, the construction of the overall structure, and its operating
life.

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