What SMARTBOW does

SMARTBOW (源清慧虹, formally Beijing Yuanqing HuiHong Information Technology Co., Ltd.) is a privately held industrial IoT company founded in 2013 as a Tsinghua University Electronic Engineering Department spin-off, specializing in wireless sensor network (WSN) based structural health monitoring of infrastructure. The company designs and manufactures its own ultra-low-power wireless sensors (8–12 year battery life, milliwatt-level power consumption), data acquisition instruments, multi-protocol gateways (4G/5G/Ethernet/LoRa), fiber optic demodulators, and an IoT cloud monitoring SaaS platform, integrating them into end-to-end monitoring systems. Its proprietary technology stack includes the THU1010N non-volatile processor (world's first, invented under the National 863 Program), the B-Stack encrypted communication protocol, 10-microsecond time synchronization, and edge AI algorithms for on-sensor inferencing. Across its 12-year technical lineage the company has deployed 60,000+ sensors across 3,000+ infrastructure assets in 30+ countries, with documented installations on landmark projects including the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, China-Laos Railway, Wuxi Ronghu Bridge (the world's first long-term WSN bridge monitoring system), and the 900-year-old Yingxian Wooden Pagoda.

The company serves transportation (bridges, tunnels, highways, rail), energy (dams, transmission towers), cultural heritage, modern buildings, and geotechnical monitoring (slopes, foundation pits) customers, with bridges and tunnels as the dominant primary verticals. SMARTBOW operates a hybrid revenue model combining one-time hardware sales, subscription-based cloud SaaS, engineering project services, and software platform licensing (cloud-deployed or on-premise), reaching 500+ customers including the Ministry of Transport, multiple municipal transportation bureaus, large SOEs such as Shaanxi Transportation Holdings Group, and international Belt and Road infrastructure operators. Distribution is enterprise-direct via a regional subsidiary network in Beijing, Ningbo, Chengdu, and Xi'an, complemented by a channel partner program and exclusive structural monitoring partnership with Tencent's Citybase smart city platform. The company has earned the National Specialized and Novel "Little Giant" Enterprise designation (2023), the Nuremberg International Invention Exhibition Gold Award (2019), the MOE Technical Invention First Prize (2019), and is a lead drafter of national industry standards for wireless structural health monitoring.

Name

SMARTBOW

Legal name

北京源清慧虹信息科技有限公司

Website

https://smartbow.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

SMARTBOW (源清慧虹) is a Tsinghua University spin-off that builds ultra-low-power wireless IoT sensors, gateways, and cloud SaaS for structural health monitoring of bridges, tunnels, highways, dams, and heritage infrastructure, serving 500+ government and enterprise customers globally with 60,000+ sensors deployed across 30+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Health Monitoring

NAICS

Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (334519), Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829)

akta.pro primary industry

Waste Management & Smart Sanitation (Facilities) (HSAPAPAM)

Keywords

• Structural health monitoring
• Infrastructure IoT sensors
• Wireless sensor networks
• Bridge monitoring systems
• AIoT infrastructure safety

Headquarters

HQ city

Haidian

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Hardware product sales: Sale of proprietary wireless sensors, data acquisition instruments, gateways, fiber optic demodulators, and peripheral monitoring equipment. One-time hardware purchase model, with products sold directly to enterprise/government customers as part of integrated monitoring system packages.
2. SaaS/cloud platform services: Subscription-based access to IoT cloud service platform providing data monitoring, visualization, alerting, analytics, and custom development tools. Revenue recognized recurring on annual or multi-year subscription basis.
3. Engineering project services: One-stop solution services including solution design, sensor installation and commissioning, system integration, and ongoing operation and maintenance. Recognized as project/service contract revenue.
4. Software platform licensing: Sale of software platform products including configuration dashboard, algorithm platform, bridge-tunnel management platform, and road big data decision-making cloud platform. Can be deployed in cloud (public/private) or on-premise.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SMARTBOW (源清慧虹) designs, manufactures, and operates an end-to-end AIoT-based structural health monitoring system for transportation, energy, cultural heritage, and construction infrastructure. Its offering combines ultra-low-power wireless smart sensors (8-12 year battery life), multi-protocol data acquisition gateways, and a cloud-based SaaS monitoring platform delivered as integrated hardware+software+service packages to government transportation bureaus, municipal authorities, and large infrastructure operators.

Product overview

SMARTBOW (源清慧虹) offers a comprehensive IoT-based infrastructure safety monitoring solution portfolio combining wireless sensors, data acquisition/transmission devices, and cloud software platforms. The product ecosystem includes: (1) Hardware sensors including temperature/humidity sensors, accelerometers, tilt sensors, static level sensors, GNSS receivers, fiber optic sensors, millimeter wave radar, and UWB positioning systems; (2) Collection and transmission devices including wireless data acquisition instruments, LoRa gateways, 4G gateways, and edge intelligence gateways; (3) Warning equipment including integrated flashing warning devices; and (4) Cloud software platforms including the 通用结构监测平台 (Universal Structural Monitoring Platform), 算法平台 (Algorithm Platform), 组态化应用平台 (Configuration Application Platform), 凝冰预警系统 (Ice Warning System), 车辆荷载空间识别系统 (Vehicle Load Recognition), 基于BIM的结构安全监测可视化平台 (BIM Visualization Platform), IPM智慧管理平台 (IPM Smart Management Platform), 建筑震后安全评估系统 (Post-Earthquake Safety Assessment System), and 主动防船撞系统 (Ship Collision Prevention System). All products share a unified wireless sensor network and cloud service architecture, forming an end-to-end solution from sensing to cloud analysis for infrastructure safety monitoring in transportation, energy, cultural heritage, and construction sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Universal Structural Monitoring Platform (通用结构监测平台) Cloud-based structural health monitoring SaaS platform providing data acquisition, visualization, monitoring, and data services with support for Web and mobile access and multi-channel alert notifications, targeted at infrastructure operators across transportation, energy, cultural heritage, and construction sectors.
• Algorithm Platform (算法平台) Middleware platform that separates industry applications, algorithm R&D, and platform software development, providing public algorithm services for different projects including data preprocessing, industry algorithms, and custom analysis for structural health monitoring customers.
• Configuration Application Platform (组态化应用平台) Component and big data visualization platform enabling drag-and-drop dashboard generation with 'what you see is what you get' design, supporting RESTful API integration of third-party data sources for unified resource management and component reuse.
• IPM Smart Management Platform (IPM智慧管理平台) Cloud platform-based highway construction lifecycle management system with PC management, mobile APP, and BI big data analytics covering process coordination, engineering breakdown, progress control, investment management, measurement management, safety management, quality management, personnel management, and mechanical/materials management.
• Low-Altitude Economy / 6G Sensing-Computing Integrated Solutions (低空经济) AI-Edge solution combining communication, sensing, intelligence, and computing for industry digitization, low-altitude economy, and satellite internet applications, featuring 6G sensing-computing integration with ≤5ms communication-sensing coordination latency, targeted at airports, ports, construction sites, and industrial facilities.
• Active Ship Collision Prevention System (主动防船撞系统) Edge AI system using thermal imaging, LiDAR, and HD cameras with edge AI algorithms to monitor vessel and vehicle behavior around bridges in real time, providing trajectory-based early warning to prevent ship collisions with bridge infrastructure.
• Ice Condensation Early Warning System (凝冰预警系统) Proprietary multi-source monitoring data analysis system using algorithms to identify ice formation and 'black ice' road conditions, triggering safety alerts with 4-hour, 8-hour, and 24-hour road condition predictions for highway operators.
• Vehicle Load Spatial Recognition System (车辆荷载空间识别系统) Radar-vision integrated system for intelligent vehicle trajectory and traffic flow identification, supporting bridge rapid bearing capacity assessment and automatic alarming for dangerous driving events including lane violations, speeding, and lane changes.
• BIM-based Structural Safety Monitoring Visualization Platform (基于BIM的结构安全监测可视化平台) BIM and GIS visualization platform integrating infrastructure management for 3D spatial fusion of structural monitoring data and maintenance information, targeted at infrastructure operators needing visual asset representations.
• Post-Earthquake Building Safety Assessment System (建筑震后安全评估系统) System integrating acceleration displacement inversion technology, structural modal parameter identification, deep learning-based semantic segmentation for visual damage identification, and BIM-based structural safety evaluation to enable rapid post-earthquake safety assessment of buildings.
• BIM-based Multi-Video Fusion System (基于BIM的多视频融合系统) 3D model-based video fusion system that combines independent local videos with 3D panoramic views into a unified god's-eye perspective scene for cross-region video patrol and infrastructure visual monitoring.
• Bridge Bearing Capacity Rapid Assessment (桥梁承载力快速评定) Technology based on influence line identification combining vehicle spatial distribution and load signal component recognition, enabling virtual load testing and future traffic simulation for bridge bearing capacity rapid assessment.
• UWB Single-Base-Station High-Precision Positioning System (UWB定位系统) Single-base station UWB high-precision positioning system using self-developed communication-navigation algorithms for real-time 3D/2D positioning of people, vehicles, and objects with 0.05-0.3 meter accuracy, including machine-learning anti-occlusion positioning algorithms.
• Millimeter Wave Radar (毫米波雷达) High-precision millimeter wave radar for structural deformation monitoring including bridge dynamic deflection measurement, tunnel vault change detection, and slope deformation monitoring on infrastructure assets.
• Integrated Flashing Warning Device (一体化爆闪装置) Integrated bridge-entry warning device combining flashing lights, speakers, and variable message signs that is triggered by sensor signals for intelligent traffic warning and intelligent linkage with structural monitoring systems.
• Structural Health Monitoring Solution Services (End-to-End Project Delivery) One-stop engineering project services for infrastructure owners covering solution design, sensor installation and commissioning, system integration, and ongoing operation and maintenance, delivered as integrated hardware+software+service packages to government transportation bureaus, municipal authorities, and large infrastructure operators.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60,000+ sensors deployed globally, monitoring 3,000+ infrastructure assets
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability13 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Shaanxi Transportation Holdings Group (陕西交控集团)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Ongoing strategic cooperation in smart transportation. Tsinghua University Electronic Engineering Department, Sourceqing HuiHong, and Shaanxi Transportation Holdings discussing deeper collaboration in digital transportation, municipal roads, and urbanization construction. CEO Wang Pengjun and Chief Scientist Yang Huazhong met with Shaanxi Transportation Holdings leadership in January 2024.
• Qingdao Surveying and Mapping Research Institute (青岛市勘察测绘研究院)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Strategic cooperation in infrastructure structural safety field, leveraging Qingdao Research Institute's geotechnical and surveying expertise to enhance monitoring solution accuracy and market penetration in Shandong province.
• Sichuan Highway Society (四川省公路学会)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Jointly organized the '2021 China Mountain Area Bridge and Tunnel Structural Safety Technology Exchange Conference' with Sichuan Highway Society, Tsinghua University Tianjin E-Institute, and Luzhou Highway Society.
• Tsinghua University Tianjin Electronic Information Institute (清华大学天津电子院)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Academic-institutional partnership for joint technology development and transfer, combining Tsinghua University's research capabilities with company's productization expertise.
• Tencent Citybase (腾讯Citybase)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Sourceqing HuiHong became Tencent Citybase's exclusive infrastructure structural monitoring solution provider for the city-level platform. Strategic partnership leveraging Tencent's smart city ecosystem to deploy Sourceqing HuiHong's monitoring solutions within Tencent's Citybase urban digital twin platform.
• Inspur (浪潮)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Sourceqing HuiHong became Inspur's strategic partner in the industrial internet field in Chongqing region. Collaboration under Inspur's industrial internet platform for joint market development in southwestern China.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• MISTRAS Group: US-listed provider of structural health monitoring products, services, and software for infrastructure, energy, and aerospace assets. Closest direct analogue to SMARTBOW in the structural monitoring vertical, combining proprietary sensors with monitoring software and field services for bridges, dams, pipelines, and pressure equipment.
• Kinemetrics: Specialist in seismic and structural monitoring instrumentation for critical infrastructure including bridges, dams, and tall buildings. Highly comparable to SMARTBOW in offering high-precision sensors plus monitoring software for structural response, with strong installed-base credibility in government and research customers.
• Campbell Scientific: Manufacturer of rugged data acquisition systems, wireless sensor networks, and environmental/structural monitoring platforms used across civil engineering, transportation, and research applications. Directly comparable to SMARTBOW in combining low-power field sensors with multi-protocol gateways and cloud-based monitoring software for infrastructure assets.
• Bridge Diagnostics, Inc. US-based specialist in bridge structural health monitoring, load testing, and instrumentation services. Closely aligned with SMARTBOW's core bridge-monitoring use case, focusing on sensor deployment, vibration/cable-force monitoring, and diagnostic analytics for bridge owners and DOTs.
• SIXENSE: Subsidiary of VINCI dedicated to infrastructure monitoring, providing structural health monitoring, geotechnical monitoring, and asset management services for bridges, tunnels, dams, and buildings. A direct competitor in the wireless/instrumented monitoring space with comparable end markets in transportation and energy infrastructure.
• Geosig: Swiss manufacturer of structural and seismic monitoring instruments (accelerometers, digitizers, monitoring software) sold to bridge, dam, and building owners globally. Comparable to SMARTBOW in delivering high-precision structural sensors with integrated data acquisition and analysis platforms.

Broad incumbents

• Trimble: Large diversified positioning and monitoring vendor serving civil engineering and infrastructure with GNSS, optical, and structural monitoring solutions (e.g., monitoring software via Trimble 4D Control). Overlaps with SMARTBOW in bridge/highway monitoring and BIM-enabled visualization but as part of a much broader portfolio.
• Honeywell: Global industrial conglomerate with building technologies, process control, and asset-monitoring offerings that touch SMARTBOW's building, energy, and industrial facility monitoring adjacencies. Competes as a broad incumbent rather than a structural-monitoring specialist but with substantially greater scale and bundling leverage.

Emerging players

• IDS GeoRadar: Part of Hexagon, providing interferometric radar and ground-based radar systems for structural and slope monitoring (bridge deflection, dam deformation, landslide early warning). A partial-overlap emerging player whose radar-based monitoring products compete with SMARTBOW's mmWave radar and GNSS-based structural deformation solutions.
• Roctest (a Sisgeo company): Manufacturer of high-precision geotechnical and structural sensors (inclination, strain, load cells, fiber-optic) used for bridges, tunnels, dams, and buildings. Comparable to SMARTBOW's sensor portfolio for structural and geotechnical monitoring applications, with overlap in fiber-optic and vibrating-wire sensing technology.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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