Electronic data transfer systems for field monitoring

It is now recognised that modifying design procedures during the active construction phase of a project in response to the measured performance of key structural elements or ground movements can yield significant productivity and cost benefits. Site monitoring schemes implemented to record these measurements often generate a large volume of data, however the processing and dissemination of which are often complicated by incompatible systems or formatting conflicts between users. This paper describes the development and use of a data format protocol for the electronic transfer of processed site data, and of a web-based data visualisation system to test the robustness of the data transfer protocol.