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Quantum Sensing for Infrastructure Monitoring: Emerging Applications in Structural and Environmental Intelligence

Author(s) Dr. Rob Thew
Country United States
Abstract The deterioration of bridges, tunnels, dams, pipelines, transportation corridors, and subsurface utility networks creates substantial economic, environmental, and public-safety risks. Conventional monitoring technologies—including accelerometers, strain gauges, ground-penetrating radar, electrical sensors, satellite positioning, and geotechnical probes—provide essential information, but their performance may be limited by environmental noise, signal attenuation, inaccessible measurement locations, calibration drift, and weak sensitivity to deeply buried or slowly developing anomalies. Quantum sensing introduces a complementary measurement framework based on the controlled behavior of atoms, photons, electron spins, and other quantum systems.
This study examines emerging applications of atomic gravimeters, quantum magnetometers, atom interferometers, nitrogen-vacancy-center sensors, quantum-enhanced optical systems, and precision timing devices in structural and environmental monitoring. A conceptual review is combined with a transparent simulation-based comparison of conventional and quantum-enhanced sensing across five monitoring applications: subsurface void detection, bridge-strain assessment, pipeline-leakage identification, groundwater-change monitoring, and magnetic-anomaly detection. All numerical results are author-generated simulated indicators and do not represent completed field trials.
Under the defined assumptions, quantum-enhanced sensing achieved higher detection-sensitivity scores across all five applications, with the strongest simulated benefits observed for groundwater change, subsurface voids, and weak magnetic anomalies. Practical deployment nevertheless remains constrained by vibration sensitivity, thermal drift, magnetic interference, instrument size, acquisition time, calibration requirements, environmental robustness, data interpretation, and cost. The study concludes that quantum sensing should initially complement established sensor networks. Its greatest near-term value lies in detecting weak signals or hidden infrastructure conditions that cannot be resolved reliably through conventional methods alone.
Keywords Quantum sensing; infrastructure monitoring; structural-health monitoring; atomic gravimetry; quantum magnetometry; environmental intelligence; subsurface detection; sensor fusion
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-03-13
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