The Victorian government will remove sensors from dozens of the state’s bridges after spending $16 million of taxpayers’ money to instal them, abandoning grand plans to commercialise the fibre-optic technology throughout Europe and the US.
A joint venture to remotely monitor bridges for cracks and other structural deficiencies between the Victorian government’s VicTrack rail agency and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) known as Eloque has been scrapped just 16 months after it was set up.
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