Abstract
AIMS is an advanced and proven technology for monitoring and protecting your property investment. Natural catastrophes, deterioration, changing landscape, ever-increasing land development and human flaws all expose your property to uncountable risk and devaluation. Traditional building management methods such as visual inspection, coring concrete samples or steel samples cannot comprehensively monitor the overall integrity of the building, nor could they reflect plenty of hidden problems beyond sample or cover-up. Not to mention architectural and structural maintenance that are more complex for sky-scrappers. AIMS is a much-applauded invention as a result of 20 years of research and development in the fields of electrons, structural dynamics, fracture mechanics, wind engineering and computer engineering. AIMS comprises highly sensitive hardware and well-designed software. It is a compact black box system to be housed on the building roof. Through very carefully designed software program, it immediately detects and reflects any external or internal changes that affect the structure of the building. After real time analysis, it produces simple and straight-forward results which can be easily interpreted by users. In this way, users can monitor the conditions of the building in real time easily and conveniently.

Features
1. Easy installation
2. User-friendliness
3. Comprehensive structural integrity information - unlike traditional methods which give limited information from sample testing or visual inspection, AIMS monitors and allows users readily accessible information at all times about the overall structural integrity of the building. Through a health index, it reflects the status of the building and alerts managers to take appropriate actions.
4. Diagnosis - AIMS reports on the diagnosis once detected and has it classified into categories, such as material, foundation or structural element problem, for management's information and corresponding remedial action.
5. Immediate reporting - AIMS can trace, record and report shortly after a damaging incident occurrs without going through tedious and unreliable visual and sample testing.

Contact Information
Mr H Y Wong
Director, Technology Transfer Office
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel : (852) 2788 8428
Fax : (852) 2788 9119
Email : hy.wong@cityu.edu.hk