First deployment · Pilot project
SenseiQ at One New Zealand Stadium
Our SenseiQ is now monitoring one of Christchurch's most significant new buildings — and has already recorded its first earthquake.
The challenge
When an earthquake hits, the most urgent question is also the hardest to answer: is the building safe to reoccupy? Traditional inspections are slow and costly, and visual checks can miss damage that happened during peak shaking but isn't obvious afterwards. For a venue built to hold tens of thousands of people, that uncertainty carries real weight.
The deployment
SenseiQ has been installed inside One New Zealand Stadium, the new covered arena at the heart of Christchurch's post-quake rebuild. The setup is simple: a sensor mounted on the floor observes a target fixed to the ceiling, measuring inter-storey drift — the relative movement between floor and ceiling — which correlates directly to structural damage. Alongside drift, SenseiQ captures acceleration, giving engineers both the cause and the effect of seismic loading from a single device.
Why it matters here
The stadium is a civic landmark and a symbol of Christchurch's recovery — exactly the kind of high-occupancy building where a fast, evidence-based reoccupation decision after a quake matters most. SenseiQ puts objective data in engineers' hands within minutes, instead of waiting days for manual inspection.
First event captured
On 6 April 2026, the sensor recorded its first real earthquake at the stadium — a small magnitude 2.4 event. Minor as it was, it confirmed the full pipeline working in situ: detect, measure, and deliver data within minutes of the shaking stopping.
“The sensor measures the damage, not just the shake — telling us straight away how much a building has moved, so its condition can be assessed quickly and accurately.”
What's next
The stadium is our pilot deployment, with strong anticipated demand across New Zealand — particularly Wellington — and internationally. If you're responsible for a building where post-quake downtime carries real cost, we'd like to talk.