# Geohazards in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains

Monitoring rock movements in the Kirnitzsch Valley and Schmilka with AarteLink

**Period:**:

2018 – 2021

**Client:**:

TU Bergakademie Freiberg

**Partners:**:

Aartesys AG

## Monitoring Rock Movements With AarteLink

 ![AarteLink Monitor for geohazard monitoring](/images/sites/ea-energy/pages/references-customer-opinions/geohazards-elbe-sandstone-mountains/monitoring-platform.png)

## Special Features

- Simple installation (a climber with a drill), commissioning and configuration from a desk
- Clear cockpit interface
- API for integration into M2M and GIS
- Permanent storage of all measurement data, export as CSV, Excel, and client-specific formats
- Maintenance-free sensors: long battery life, wireless sensors, robust aluminum–ABS enclosure
- Local alerts within seconds through remote alarm units (siren, traffic light, CB radio), using radio, cable, or SMS
- High-resolution event measurements (logs) can be read wirelessly from the sensor
- Public websites (national park administration, mayor, etc.) with live data, charts, and active vector graphics
- Client extension options
- Monitor available as a software package for the client’s own machine or as a hosted solution, also at a fixed price

## Benefits for Clients

- Installed and operational in very little time
- Energy-autonomous GeoSensors for up to 10 years
- All system components remotely configurable and maintainable
- Very long radio range between sensor and gateway
- Redundancy at every level
- End-to-end solution including AarteLink Monitor
- Easy integration into existing alarm control centers
- Intelligent platform, easily extended to new applications
- Extremely robust, sealed, and compact GeoSensor
- Cost-effective

## Optional Software Extensions

- Automatic forwarding of sensor data and status to external systems and GIS over the internet
- CZ language module for Czech
- Integration of specialized online monitoring through client-owned modules
- Automatic delivery of status emails with processed log data
- Templating system for measurement data processing: Excel template + monitor + Excel report

## General System Characteristics

- Cost-effective installation
- Low maintenance requirements
- No cable installation required
- Long sensor radio range, robust SMS gateway communication (alternatively UMTS / internet)
- Remote monitoring, maintenance, and updates through the web platform (AarteLink Monitor)

## Project Partners

- Aartesys AG