Our Mission

 

YieldPoint Inc. will continue to design, manufacture and support geotechnical monitoring solutions of the highest quality and reliability and at the best possible price for the civil and mining industries. We will help our customers worldwide to implement geotechnical monitoring programs that will give them the best possible insight into the behaviour of their structures, be they natural or engineered. Our back-end interpretation tools will multiply the value of the data collected in mining, civil and construction projects. This in turn will allow for a better understanding and promote better anticipation of future changes in the structures.

 

Our product offering for geotechnical monitoring will help enhance safety and productivity, and we will strive for total customer satisfaction through superior and responsive customer service. We provide leading-edge technology by cultivating innovation focused on our customers' needs. We are committed to sustained growth through continued investment in product development and manufacturing methods.

 

YieldPoint wishes to be recognized collectively and individually as leaders and contributors in the geotechnical monitoring field. We will encourage our employees to publish papers and attend conferences. We will fulfill our goals using a straight-forward, direct, open and honest approach with our customers, partners, sub-contractors and suppliers. YieldPoint is an environmentally conscious and responsible company and we will ensure that all aspects of our business have the least harmful effect on the environment, as we provide technological advances that help our customers minimize their environmental footprint through geotechnical monitoring.

 

The YieldPoint Story

 

YieldPoint Inc. was incorporated in 2001 as a geotechnical monitoring instrumentation company with the goal of designing and manufacturing a 'smarter' and more robust generation of geotechnical instruments. We used an digital architecture by embedding into every instrument a microcontroller with Flash memory. Digital Signal Processing allowed YieldPoint to begin manufacturing highly accurate instruments at low cost.

 

Following 15 years of incremental improvement, YieldPoint is now positioned to offer a digital product line that intersects with a major new idea: the Internet of Things (IoT), leveraging its benefits for better geotechnical monitoring purposes. Our efforts and inventiveness result in user-friendly geotechnical monitoring solutions with improved accuracy and reliability in even the harshest environments.

 

Most recently we have adopted Distributed Optical Strain sensing technologies to create the highest resolution geotechnical instruments in the world. We are currently manufacturing probes with 10,000 strain measurements along a 10m length for applications in both mining and civil engineering. For the first time this technology is capable of monitoring shear failure, possibly the most prevalent failure mechanism in geomechanics. Our growing expertise in this field will result in fundamental research breakthroughs in the field of rock mechanics. We can now solve geotechnical monitoring problems that we couldn't have imagined existed 15 years ago.