Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM
A way out of manual inspection
Modern transport infrastructure would be inconceivable without tunnels. In Germany, there are well over a thousand road, rail and underground tunnels requiring regular maintenance. Many of these tunnels have been in operation for decades, so regular maintenance and repair are becoming increasingly important in order to avoid safety risks and consequential damage. Today, tunnel inspections are largely performed manually in a slow, costly and unobjective process, while the degree of digitization is low. Tunnel inspections are lengthy, expensive and do not provide any objective condition data.
In the near future, however, Building Information Modeling (BIM) will also become the standard in tunneling requiring complete digitalization of the building information.
