I currently use Trimble Business Center for most of my surveying needs; however, I am curious about other software options for monitoring. TBC can do the normal adjustments, but it lacks a bit in working with comparing control surveys for movement. I have not tried Trimble's 4D/monitoring, has anyone comments on it? I have heard that Carslon, Star*Net, and GeoLab have good software for this purpose. Any advice on the software that you use to verify the stability of control networks would be great.
There is a monitoring module for Access that covers basic field workflows. Simple and easy to use
T4D is really good at presenting and reporting monitoring data, especially over time. But it needs flash hardware to automate the data collection. It is good for big jobs over time
Software capable of a "Helmert Transformation" may be what you are looking for to be really rigorous. But what I use is StarNet to adjust and reduce the collected data to coordinates, and Excel to accumulate and compare the ongoing events.
For real-time monitoring, I use Leica GeoMos. It is comprised of a series of modules that allow for automated collection, processing, adjusting, monitoring and reporting. It allows for the inclusion of various sensors into the mix. Not cheap, but worth the price. There are similar specialty software's with similar capabilities, and I would assume Trimble has one.
It is time consuming to set up. Once you have it going there is not of a resource drain. You can set movement thresholds to send out automated alerts via text, email or onsite alarm. You can eliminate the noise server setting next to your desk by virtualize it to run on Azure.
We use GeoExplorer - I'm just getting into it, but we are usually integrating multiple sensor types on the same site
TBC does have a monitoring module that you can purchase.