Mature technology applied to a market nobody serves
Dynamic identification of structures is established science. Continuous monitoring has existed for decades on major infrastructure. What is missing is a system that makes economic sense on a residential block, a school, a warehouse. SKAB exists to lower that threshold.
Why now
Sensor cost has collapsed
MEMS accelerometers with noise performance adequate for modal analysis on buildings are now available at a fraction of traditional seismometric instrumentation, with sufficient characteristics for the band of interest.
Computation is a commodity
Modal processing, once costly and manual, can now run automatically and repeatedly in the cloud across many buildings in parallel, at a very low marginal cost per analysis.
Demand has grown
Seismic sequences, bradyseismic phenomena and heightened risk awareness have moved the topic to the centre of the agenda for public bodies, asset managers and owners.
Project status
This is not a concept. It is a system in service, with hardware in the field and a running pipeline.
| Asset | Status |
|---|---|
| Intellectual property | International patent application filed by Devdata Automation SRL. |
| Hardware | Stations designed and built in-house, in service on real buildings. |
| Firmware | Continuous acquisition, event detection, session management, time synchronisation and over-the-air updates. |
| Cloud pipeline | Ingest, proprietary format decoding, automatic modal processing and structured archiving. |
| Web interface | Multi-tenant application with map, building catalogue, time series and analysis reports. |
| Field data | Continuous recordings on monitored buildings, including acquisitions during real seismic events. |
| Team | Devdata Automation SRL, backed by the technical organisation of Devdata SRL (ICT management, ~€1M revenue) for systems, cloud and delivery. |
How it generates revenue
Free entry point
Building cataloguing and preliminary theoretical estimate of natural modes, accessible without hardware. Builds the catalogue and qualifies demand.
Hardware
Supply and installation of stations, two to three per building depending on geometry and monitoring objectives.
Recurring service
Monitoring subscription: connectivity, processing, data retention, reporting and alerting. This is the component that compounds value over time.
Who we want to talk to
Engineering partners
Structural engineering practices interested in validating methodology and thresholds on real cases, and in using the platform as a measurement instrument within their own commissions. This is the collaboration that matters most to us: structural competence must sit alongside the technology, not inside it.
Public bodies, universities, research centres
Case-study monitoring projects, validation campaigns, comparison against reference instrumentation and joint publications.
Industrial and distribution partners
Operators with access to property portfolios, asset managers, integrators and resellers in seismic markets abroad.
Investors
Capital for hardware industrialisation, a structural validation campaign and commercial development. Detailed material available on request, subject to a confidentiality agreement.
What is not solved yet
We prefer to state this upfront. Anyone assessing a project wants to know its limits, not only its strengths.
- Threshold validation on the Italian building stock. Frequency-shift ranges associated with damage levels come from literature on reinforced concrete buildings in other contexts. Applicability to Italian historic masonry requires a dedicated validation campaign, which is among our priorities.
- Sensitivity to environmental conditions. Natural frequencies vary with temperature, humidity and excitation level. Normalising these effects is an open technical problem under continuous refinement.
- Declared scope. The system does not and will not issue occupancy or safety judgements. This deliberately narrows the commercial promise, but it is the only position that is defensible technically and in terms of liability.
- Industrialisation. Current stations are built in-house. Moving to series production is a stage to be addressed with suitable partners.
Request the detailed material
Technical documentation, development status and field data are available to qualified counterparties, subject to a confidentiality agreement.