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KeiBeton — concrete that senses its own strain.

A structural-health-monitoring design: a capacitive sensing mesh for concrete and rebar that reads local strain from the plate-capacitor relation C = εA / d as the material deforms.

What it is designed to do

KeiBeton is designed to embed a capacitive sensing mesh in concrete and its rebar. As the structure strains, the local geometry of the embedded plates changes, and so does their capacitance — a direct, continuous read on structural health without drilling into the material after the fact.

Why it matters

Most structural-health monitoring is retrofit — strain gauges bonded to a surface, inspected on a schedule. KeiBeton is designed in at pour time, so the sensing mesh ages with the structure and reports continuously instead of on inspection cycles.

Compute core

The signal-processing core has parallel Rust and MAX implementations, gated for parity against each other; in our tests they agreed on 42 of 42 checks and the MAX port ran 1.37x faster.