What is special about the early landslide warning project honoring Vietnamese Talents?

Helping to proactively respond to landslides and protect people's lives, the Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System is even more special when a father and son work together.

The landslide early warning and monitoring system, authored by Duong Thanh Trung, Duong Ho Nam, Nguyen Tung Anh, Tran Manh Dung, won the third prize of Vietnam Talent in the field of promising digital technology . The product is a specialized IoT system for monitoring and early warning of natural disaster risks as well as construction safety.

The group of authors of the Landslide Early Warning and Monitoring System was honored with the Vietnamese Talent Award. Photo: Organizing Committee.

Technological "eyes and ears" help hear movements underground

Born at a time when natural disasters, especially landslides, are becoming increasingly complex and unpredictable, the Landslide Early Warning and Monitoring System is expected to open up a new approach to disaster prevention in Vietnam.

The system is built on two main platforms: hardware and software. In hardware, the structure includes central computing and control equipment, measuring sensors, warning devices, power sources (possibly solar energy) and central servers. Software includes the operating system, data communication platform, information processing and display software, and remote monitoring and maintenance tools.

This is a specialized IoT system designed for monitoring and early warning of natural disaster risks, and monitoring construction safety. Aitogy integrates many specialized sensors such as groundwater level sensors to monitor hydraulic fluctuations in the ground; GNSS sensors to monitor terrain surface displacement; IMU sensors to monitor movement, tilt angle and rainfall sensors to determine the correlation between rainfall and landslide risk.

All data is synchronized via a data logger and continuously transmitted to the processing center using the MQTT protocol - a popular communication standard in IoT systems, helping to ensure stable transmission even in weak or interrupted network conditions. Data at the center is analyzed in real time, automatically compared with safety thresholds. When detecting abnormal parameters, the system immediately sends warnings to the government, authorities and people through various channels such as text messages, mobile applications or on-site alarm devices.

The system operates based on three main parts. The field monitoring unit is responsible for collecting data in high-risk areas, where sensors operate continuously to record every small change in soil and rock. The central and warning unit is considered the "brain" of the system, with the function of receiving, processing and sending warning signals when detecting landslide risks. Along with that, the data storage and security unit ensures the system operates stably, even when the Internet connection is temporarily lost, data is still saved and automatically compensated when the network recovers.

In particular, the system is equipped with an anti-theft module, using an acceleration sensor to detect physical impacts or abnormal vibrations at the device, ensuring the safety of technical infrastructure. Not only stopping at warning of landslides, the system can also be applied in irrigation monitoring, assessing the safety of dikes, dams, reservoirs, monitoring construction structures, bridges, high-rise buildings or serving geotechnical monitoring work in construction.

Automatic, 24/7 monitoring, warning immediately when detecting abnormal signs

According to Aitogy's technology engineers, building a comprehensive landslide monitoring and early warning system is a big challenge. To solve this problem, the research team chose a more scientific and sustainable approach: focusing all resources on developing a basic monitoring module.

This module is considered the coordination center of the entire system, responsible for handling the most complex technical problems. Inside the module is a combination of high-precision sensors, capable of operating stably in harsh environments and transmitting data continuously and reliably to the control center. The completion of the monitoring module is considered a solid foundation for replication, forming a large-scale landslide monitoring and warning network in the future.

Compared to imported monitoring solutions, which are often many times more expensive, Aitogy's system significantly reduces initial investment costs while still meeting technical requirements and accuracy. The system is also designed to utilize solar energy and remote management, helping to save operating costs, limit expenses for electricity, travel or periodic maintenance at the site.

Instead of manual monitoring or periodic measurements, Aitogy's system operates completely automatically, continuously monitors 24/7 and issues warnings as soon as abnormalities are detected. This helps increase response speed and situation handling efficiency, significantly reducing risks compared to traditional methods.

Landslide monitoring often takes place in dangerous locations, especially during the rainy season when the risk of landslides increases. With Aitogy's solution, this process is fully automated, eliminating the need for personnel to be on duty in risky areas. This is an important factor in ensuring the safety of disaster prevention forces, while maintaining the ability to monitor accurately and continuously in all weather conditions.

Father and son in the same project

To complete the Landslide Early Warning and Monitoring System, Aitogy's research team has gone through many challenges. Mr. Duong Thanh Trung, a lecturer at the University of Mining and Geology, said that sometimes the whole group was working or taking a lunch break when suddenly the alarm siren rang. That was when a member was testing the system, deliberately letting the indicators exceed the threshold to check the warning ability. Gradually, that sound became a familiar part of daily work.

Father and son conquer Vietnam Talent with landslide warning technology. Photo: Organizing Committee.

Not only in the lab, the team also had to go to areas with high risk of landslides to install equipment, overcome difficult terrain and harsh conditions. Thanks to the support of the local government and people, they have deployed many safety monitoring points. For Trung and his colleagues, each project is not only a technological work, but also a way for them to contribute to protecting the lives of people in disaster areas.

A special thing is that the project has the participation of a father and son: Mr. Duong Thanh Trung is the father of Duong Ho Nam, a student at the University of Technology, Hanoi National University. Being both father and son, and teacher and student, both have turned their passion into a meaningful project. With the strengths and expertise of each person, father - son, teacher - student together created a complete product.

“I hope to have a young generation full of talent, aspiration and ambition to continue the generations of our fathers and brothers in the cause of protecting and building the country,” Mr. Trung shared.

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