The cities of Wuxi and Yangzhou have upgraded livelihood projects to benefit the grassroots communities. Let’s take a close look.
The Hongqi Bridge, located on the old Wuxi-Shazhou Bus Route in Xishan District of Wuxi City, spans the 80-meter-long Xibei Canal that was dug in 1996.
There are many ships going down from Hongqi Bridge, so the local transportation department has designed a tailored bridge health monitoring plan.
“We can now see the lower part of the bridge from the perspective of the drone. We have installed twenty sets of monitoring equipment in the middle of the bridge. Machine vision intelligent measuring instrument is used to monitor the vertical displacement of bridges. Digital crack gauges are used to monitor structural cracks. The high-definition camera above the cover beam is used to monitor the passage of ships,” said Jiang Menghui, Technician of Huashe Testing Technology Co., Ltd.
Intelligent equipment seems like a private doctor guarding the bridge 24/7 by remotely monitoring the operation status of the bridge and dynamically controlling the operational risks of the bridge.
Wuxi will make every effort to promote the construction of a rural road and bridge health monitoring system. The city now registers 6603 kilometers of rural roads with a total of 3304 bridges.
Feng Chuanlin, an elderly person living in Gaoqiao Community, Yangzhou High-tech Zone, has no siblings and lives alone. This morning, the community workers and firefighters came to the elder's home to install an independent smoke and fire detection alarm and explained to him the functions and precautions of the alarm.
