Technology Solutions for Dam Safety Instrumentation Data Collection and Reporting

Dam safety instrumentation monitoring challenges, whether a fairly straightforward problem such as organizing historical data or a more complex issue like synching multiple automated and manually read data sources, can be surmounted. Advances in automated data collection and development of software for integrating geo-monitoring data offer solutions to these and many other instrumentation challenges. Oglethorpe Power Corporation's Rocky Mountain Hydroelectric Plan provides a good example of using technology to optimize an instrumentation monitoring program for reliability, flexibility, and efficiency.