Smart Metrology
Smart Metrology is a modern approach to industrial metrology. The name was introduced by Jean-Michel Pou and Laurent Leblond, a French meteorologist and a French statistician. The term was coined in their book, La Smart Metrology: De la métrologie des instruments à la métrologie des décisions. It was then adopted by Deltamu, a French company providing services in the field of industrial metrology.
The approach promoted by Smart Metrology applies the exploitation of data and information, including that provided by big data, to implement an approach based on the three pillars of metrology (uncertainty, calibration and traceability) in industrial applications.
Approach
The approach suggested by Smart Metrology is fully framed within the ISO 9001 recommendations. Usual metrology is often regarded as a pure cost and is actually not following the ISO 9001 quality standards.
Innovation
Smart Metrology follows a different approach according to the following steps:
- The measuring equipment is monitored using historical and relevant data to detect whether a doubt exists. If such a doubt exists, the equipment is calibrated.
- The available (a priori) information is used by applying advanced statistical approaches, such as Bayesian inference, for monitoring and is used in the decision-making process.
- The calibration intervals were not at fixed intervals.