Latest news (update 11-06-2021)

• Communication:
• geophConsult will hold a booth and contributre to the technical tour (during which an operational Fibre Optics based monitoring system will be presented, among others) at the next ICOLD annual meeting to be held at Marseille 27/05-04/06 november 2022.
• geophConsult joined the I-Risk consortium late in 2020, a network of companies located in the French Alps who offer solutions to the mitigation of natural hazard.

• International:
• Despite the outbreak of Covid-19 which prevents geophyConsult engineers to go onsite, the company is presently remotely supervising the installation of one of its Fibre Optics based monitoring systems for detecting and quantifying leakages and seepages below GeoMembrane in India.
• geophyConsult recently won a international tender to design and install a Fibre Optics based monitoring systems for detecting and quantifying leakages and seepages below GeoMembrane in Morrocco.
• geophyConsult recently collected samples and carried out erosion tests in Belgium and in the Netherlands.

 

• France:

• A Fibre Optics based monitoring system aimed at protecting against major floods in the Rhône delta and desgined by EDF and geophyConsult is about to be delivered.
• The project of a Fibre Optics based monitoring system for the Yonne basin (to the South East of Paris) that geophyConsult designed a couple of years ago has recently been approved and will be installed in a few months.
• geophyConsult has been assigned, early in 2021, to carry out a series of erosion risk assessments of dikes located along the Rhône river.
• geophyConsult recently won a international tender to carry out thermal monitoring of dikes in the Rhine basin
• geophyConsult is about to deliver a vast safety assessment of dikes protecting classified facilities.
• geophConsult has just been assigned to carry out between 40 to 110 erosion tests on samples coming from the Loire basin.

• Latest technical developements:
• geophConsult is about to finish its software suite dedicated to the operation of its Fibre Optics based monitoring systems : after the modules dedicated to the treatment of passive thermal measurements (according to the « Gradient Method ») and of strain measurements – which were both delivered in 2020 –, the company is finalising the module dedicated to the treatment of active thermal measurements (according to the « Heat Pulse Method »).
  The suite includes automatic or semi-automatic modules to:

• assess that the system is operational and delivers meaningfull data,
• analyse the data,
• represent the main results either in 2D (potentially with maps in background),or in 3D,
• interpret the data in terms of simple recomended actions, that can be directly executed by an owner.
  The suite can be:
• deployed on stand-alone systems (like the Windows® computers that control the monitoring systems on site),
• accessed via a secure and user-friendly internet interface, deployed on the cloud of geophyConsult.
• geophyConsult started to deploy, in 2021, its new integrated software dedicated to the almost fully-automatic management of its hole and jet erosion tests.

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