The Assyakirin Concrete Dam is located in Sarawak, Malaysia, a region whose economy has expanded to oil palm, forest plantations and agriculture, among other things. It collects rainwater during the monsoon season and releases it when the water level in the river is not sufficient to supply raw water to the water treatment plants and agricultural areas. The concrete dam had a monitoring system in the past but it was vandalized and this triggered the need to update and automate the monitoring of the reservoir level and slope stability of the saddle dam.
Meanwhile, the Shihmen Concrete Dam forms the Shihmen Reservoir, Taiwan’s third largest artificial lake which provides irrigation, flood control, hydroelectricity and domestic water supply for more than three million people in northern Taiwan. The concrete dam needed to automate the piezometer monitoring around the dam to have real-time data on the pore water pressure of the soil surrounding the dam structure.