Digital Twin Correlation & Surface Health Monitoring
Real-time surface data to improve model fidelity, detect anomalies earlier, and support condition-based maintenance strategies.
Hyve provides high-density pressure, temperature, and strain measurements across complex surfaces. This data can be used to correlate CFD/FEA models with real operating conditions and to support integrated health monitoring workflows across aerospace, energy, and industrial assets.
Key Features & Benefits
Live Digital Twin Correlation
Supports real-time correlation of computational models (CFD/FEA) using measured surface data in representative operating conditions.
Early Anomaly Detection
Surface strain and thermal patterns can indicate emerging issues earlier than periodic inspections, supporting earlier investigation and maintenance planning.
High-Density Spatial Insight
Dense sensing enables localisation of changes across a surface, helping teams focus inspections and diagnostics where it matters.
Multi-Modal Sensing
Simultaneous pressure, temperature, and strain sensing supports combined aerodynamic + thermal + structural interpretation.
Hyve is designed to complement periodic inspection and existing monitoring systems by adding continuous, high-density surface measurements. This supports more accurate model correlation, earlier diagnostics, and a clearer understanding of how assets behave in real operating conditions.
Build digital twins on measured surface data — not assumptions.
Structural Health Monitoring (IVHM)
Move from scheduled inspection to data-informed maintenance decisions — starting with better surface measurements.
The Challenge: Unscheduled Maintenance and Inspection Burden
Across aerospace and industrial infrastructure, unplanned maintenance events create significant operational and financial impact. Current inspection approaches rely heavily on periodic checks and manual diagnostics, which can miss early-stage degradation or require unnecessary maintenance interventions.
Continuous surface measurements can help identify changes earlier and support more targeted inspection strategies.
How Hyve Enables IVHM
Composite Integration (Roadmap / Program-specific)
Embedding during layup is a potential integration route for certain composite structures, depending on certification, manufacturing workflow, and program requirements.
- Integration route: Between composite layers (program-dependent)
- Low profile: Designed to minimise impact on structure and mass
- Lifecycle monitoring concept: Supports continuous measurement approaches
What Surface Data Can Indicate
- Delamination indicators: Local strain pattern changes consistent with layer separation
- Impact signatures: Rapid strain transients consistent with impact events
- Fatigue progression: Micro-strain shifts that may precede visible damage
- Environmental degradation: Trends consistent with moisture/thermal cycling effects
IVHM Value Potential (Program-dependent)
With Hyve IVHM
- • Condition-based maintenance: Inspect when data indicates change
- • Earlier investigation: Identify changes sooner to reduce downstream impact
- • Operate with evidence: Maintenance decisions informed by measured trends
Value Potential (Program-dependent)
Condition-based maintenance concepts can reduce unscheduled events and improve asset availability over time. Quantification depends on platform, duty cycle, and integration scope.
Dual-Use Applications (Program-dependent)
UAV Structural Monitoring (Concept)
Surface strain trending to support structural usage monitoring on composite airframes.
High-Speed / Thermal Instrumentation (Concept)
Combined temperature + strain measurement for test and evaluation on high-speed structures.
Impact Event Indication (Concept)
High-rate strain signatures that can support event detection and post-event inspection planning.
Maintenance Planning Support
Enables condition-based monitoring concepts that can reduce unplanned downtime and improve maintenance scheduling over time.
Ultra-Thin & Non-Intrusive
Ultra-thin flexible arrays are designed to conform to complex geometries without structural penetration.