Disaster Prevention: Avoid Catastrophes in Dams, Highways, and Risk Areas with Technology
Tragedies don’t announce themselves. At least, not in an obvious way.
When a dam breaks or a slope collapses, the same questions always arise: were there warning signs? Could it have been avoided?
In practice, the answer is almost always the same: yes, the signs were there — but invisible to the naked eye.
Risk Areas, Dams, Slopes, and One Shared Challenge
Geological risk zones, mining dams, highway slopes… they all share the same challenge: they seem stable until the very moment they’re not.
That’s exactly where technology comes in as an ally. Today, it’s already possible to monitor millimetric...