Highway monitoring cameras for road and bridge projects

Managed time-lapse cameras, live viewing and secure online access to view, record and share progress on road and transport infrastructure. As part of Survey Solutions, we can add manual or automated movement monitoring of carriageways, bridges and nearby structures.

  • Short schemes or multi-year programmes
  • Fully managed cameras
  • 4G or solar power
  • Secure online portal
  • Part of the Survey Solutions Group

Highways monitoring equipment

Schemes we monitor

Contractors, consultants, local authorities and asset owners use our cameras on:

  • Road construction
  • Highway improvement schemes
  • Junction upgrades
  • Bridge and tunnel works
  • Road widening
  • Public realm works
  • Local authority schemes
  • National highway projects
  • Active travel and cycle routes
  • Utility works in highways
  • Traffic management areas
  • Compounds and site access

Three ways to monitor a highway scheme

Time-lapse construction cameras

4G-connected cameras, with solar power for remote stretches, capture time-stamped images across large or hard-to-reach sites. Edited films for handover or stakeholder engagement.

Best for: progress reporting and public updates.

HD video with SiteStream

Continuous HD video you can review by date and time, useful when reporting progress or looking into an issue. More about SiteStream.

Best for: busy junctions, compounds and access points.

Movement monitoring

Survey Solutions tracks movement in roads, carriageways, bridges, retaining walls and nearby structures, against agreed trigger levels. See below.

Best for: works near live traffic, excavation and piling.

Safety, compliance and reporting

Highway works often sit next to live traffic, public routes, utilities, bridges, drainage and existing structures. A time-stamped visual record of activity around these constraints supports progress reporting, compliance and stakeholder engagement, and gives you evidence of completed works.

Highway monitoring step by step

How our cameras work

  1. Map pin icon, for the site survey1

    Site survey

    We plan camera positions, power and 4G signal around the programme and access constraints.

  2. Camera icon, for installation2

    Installation

    Our engineers install the cameras and maintain them for the whole scheme.

  3. Webcam icon, for remote viewing3

    Remote viewing

    Authorised users view progress remotely, so fewer site visits are needed.

  4. Cloud icon, for records and reporting4

    Records and reporting

    Time-stamped records, archive footage and edited films for handover and public engagement.

Highway monitoring from Survey Solutions

Site Eye is part of Survey Solutions, the UK’s largest engineering surveying group. It provides highway monitoring for contractors, consultants, local authorities and infrastructure owners, tracking movement in roads, carriageways, bridges, retaining walls, culverts, embankments and nearby structures.

Schemes can be tailored to short-term construction works, long-term asset monitoring, emergency investigations or planned schemes, and combined with topographical surveys, mobile mapping, utility surveys, GPR, CCTV drainage surveys or site engineering.

What they monitor

  • Roads and carriageways
  • Footways and cycleways
  • Bridges and bridge approaches
  • Retaining walls
  • Culverts and drainage structures
  • Embankments, slopes and cuttings
  • Underpasses and tunnels
  • Utility corridors
  • Adjacent buildings and third-party assets
  • Temporary works and excavation zones
  • Public realm and streetscape assets

Manual monitoring

Scheduled readings at agreed points in the programme, to track carriageway levels, structural movement, settlement, retaining walls or adjacent assets.

Automated monitoring

Frequent or continuous readings, with alerts when agreed movement or intervention levels are reached, so issues are found early and acted on quickly.

How a highway monitoring scheme runs

  1. Understand the asset, the works, access, traffic management and stakeholders.
  2. Define the monitoring points, frequency, reporting format and trigger levels.
  3. Capture baseline data before works begin.
  4. Take manual or automated readings at agreed intervals, then check and interpret them.
  5. Report clearly and consistently for engineers, contractors, designers and asset owners.

Project example: Battersea. Survey Solutions provided vibration and movement monitoring to protect a critical 6kV cable during piling for a major residential development. Read the project

More about Survey Solutions highway monitoring

Why choose Site Eye for highway monitoring

  • Professionally installed and maintained. Cameras configured around your programme, powered or remote.
  • Remote access for every stakeholder. Clearer communication between contractors, consultants and clients.
  • Secure storage and archive. A permanent visual record of construction.
  • One group. Movement monitoring and surveys from Survey Solutions, with fast mobilisation through its UK-wide office network.

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Frequently asked questions

Can you cover short schemes as well as multi-year programmes?

Yes. Cameras and monitoring are configured around the programme, access constraints and reporting requirements, whatever the length of the scheme.

Can we review footage by date and time?

Yes. Every image is time-stamped, and SiteStream adds HD video you can search by date and time.

Manual or automated monitoring: which do we need?

Manual monitoring takes readings at agreed stages and suits planned, lower-frequency checks. Automated monitoring takes frequent or continuous readings and sends alerts when agreed trigger levels are reached, for higher-risk or time-sensitive works. Survey Solutions recommends the right approach for the risk.

Do the cameras need power or a site network?

No site network is needed. Every camera has built-in 4G, and solar-powered systems are available for remote locations without a power supply.

Can you monitor bridges and utility corridors as well?

Yes, through Survey Solutions, which monitors bridges, retaining walls, culverts, utility corridors and adjacent structures alongside our cameras.

Discuss your highway scheme

Tell us about the scheme, its length and your reporting needs. We will come back with camera options and any movement monitoring you need.

Or call 020 3154 8353

Email info@site-eye.co.uk