When natural disasters threaten the structural soundness of buildings and essential infrastructure, SENSR LLC, a company in Elkader, Iowa, ensures engineers have the information they need to keep people away from dangerous situations.
SENSR is in the business of measuring dynamics, or more simply, measuring the motion of an object.
SENSR’s equipment is leaving a positive impact on a wide variety of projects around the world- from ensuring the world’s tallest building is structurally sound, to testing the safety of roller coasters across the country, to monitoring the safe transport of important products and packages.
The company services more than 700 customers in more than 40 countries and on six continents.
SENSR’s primary market is in civil engineering and structural monitoring. In this arena, SENSR’s equipment is used to monitor and report data to project managers or engineers related to the integrity of a structure.
“It is important for a lot of industries to understand how movement and vibration impacts them,” said Chris Kavars, President and CEO of SENSR. “For instance, sometimes damage can obviously be seen, but oftentimes we can’t use the naked eye to identify how a structure withstands a natural disaster. This is where our equipment comes in. We help alert people when a structure is changing or behaving in a way it hasn’t before.”