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How to Choose Structural Monitoring Software: 30 Questions

Four classes of structural monitoring software, 30 vendor questions in 8 groups (each with a "good answer looks like this" note), scoring weights, red flags and an RFP template to copy into the specification.

  • Why software decides more than sensors
  • Four solution classes: what you pay for, what you get, where it hurts
  • 30 questions for the supplier: data, sensors, alarms, dynamics
  • 30 questions for the supplier: reports, audit, hosting, cost
  • Offer evaluation criteria: proposed weights
  • Red flags
  • How Inclify answers these 30 questions
  • RFP template (to copy into the scope of works)
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