uSer-centred civil infrAstructure Reliable Assessment and Healing

European consortium

10 project partners from 6 European countries; France, Spain, Italy, Finland, Austria and The Netherlands are working together for 36 months.

human-centered digital solution

SARAH adopts a human-centered approach to develop a safe-by-design integrated digital solution.

civil infrastructure

Solutions empowering civil infrastructure supervisors and intervention workers in the maintenance and repair of civil infrastructure.

Transforming how Europe inspects, maintains and repairs its critical civil infrastructure

SARAH adopts a human-centred approach to develop a safe-by-design integrated digital solution that supports maintenance and repair decision and planning, order, intervention and reporting. Leveraging metaverse technologies and egocentric augmented reality solutions, the system empowers infrastructure supervisors and intervention workers by providing real-time assistance, fostering skill development, and improving their Occupational Safety and Health. The solution, rooted in Human Factors:

Identification

identifies issues in civil infrastructures in a rapid, cost-effective and safe manner thanks to innovative sensors deployed on-site (corrosion, soil nail and anchor, structural crack) possibly via an unmanned aerial system (load up to 1kg)

Assessment

fastly and accurately assesses the needs for repair (98 % of issues properly ranked) using a Digital Twin of the infrastructure able to run in real-time (reduced order, automatic continuous calibration) and proposes prioritised timely interventions, considering risk assessment using a Decision Support Engine (80% ad hoc correct advice for inspections)

Inspection

launches extra inspections (either with autonomous aerial system or human), and provides remote support to the intervention workers (80% satisfaction, evaluated via interviews)

Reporting

delivers certification report generated using generative AI, after intervention and repair (at least 2 types of reports generated)

“Preserving the value and safety of Europe’s civil infrastructure requires smarter tools”

“That’s where SARAH comes in. We are proud to contribute to this initiative aimed at transforming the infrastructure management across Europe, with economical and societal impacts.”

Sébastien Boisseau, lab manager at CEA Leti

Investment in EU policy priorities

SARAH is funded under the Digital, Industry and Space programme, fully aligning with the EU’s digital agenda and contributing to clean air, artificial intelligence and climate action priorities.

Digital agenda

Clean Air

Artificial Intelligence

Climate action

A skilled project consortium

Coordinated by CEA Leti, the SARAH consortium brings together leading industries, universities, research centres and technology providers from across Europe.

project partners

European countries

SARAH Use Cases

News from SARAH

🔸 SARAH Kick-Off Meeting 🔸

14 June 2025/in Meeting, News/by Armengaud Innovate

With the project start on June 01 and the Kick-Off meeting taking place last week, we can say that the project has officially started 🤩. It has been a great environment for discussing the needs from the demo sites, technologies developed by the partners supporting the human-centric approach of efficient and safe health monitoring of […]

SARAH – the logo

6 June 2025/in News/by Armengaud Innovate

One of the first activities for a newly started EU funded project is to complete the project branding. During this process, we created this short video explaining the SARAH logo – and by this, giving an essence of the project.

New beginnings: SARAH

1 June 2025/in News/by Armengaud Innovate

The project SARAH is about to start and project preparations are at full speed towards the kick-off meeting taking place in Grenoble from 12th until 13th of June. To prepare this, the coordinator organized a KOM preparation meeting in Brussels, this week. The meeting was an excellent opportunity to discuss🔸 Impact creation and maximizing the […]

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