Smart cement is a highly sensing binder that can be used in new constructions and also integrated into in-service infrastructures for real-time monitoring helping with the maintenance and also preventing failures. In recent years there have been many failures including bridges and earth dams around the world resulting in major losses. In new construction the smart cement can be used as the binder in the concrete to make it highly sensing and then used in the construction of onshore and offshore infrastructures. The piezoresisitive axial strain at peak stress for the concrete with smart cement binder was over hundred percent which is 336 times (33,600%) higher compared to the concrete failure strain of 0.3% which is currently used for monitoring. Also smart cements can be used as cement grouts for construction, maintenance and repairs of infrastructures and also deep oil wells both onshore and offshore. Performance of smart cement grout with water to cement ratio of 0.8 are discussed and the piezoresistive failure strain was over 150%.  In order to ensure safety and also to extend the service life of the infrastructures, it is important to monitor the changes in the construction and repair materials with the varying loadings and environments. Hence it is also important to integrate the real time monitoring tools into these applications for monitoring. It is important to monitor the real material property changes in the field and not just the temperature which is not a material property.

A new material characterization method has been developed and was used to identify the critical electrical property of the smart cement and the electrical resistivity was identified as the critical property to monitor. Hence a two probe method was developed to monitor the resistivity changes in the cement. Also a new approach has been developed to wirelessly transfer the two probes monitoring of the changes in resistivity of smart cement, smart concrete and smart grout to the phone. This monitoring method can be used to evaluate the quality of mixing and also curing of the materials with time and the stress changes. Also another new method has been developed using the band pass filters (BPF) to monitor the installation and performance of deep oil and gas wells. This method of monitoring can be used to monitor also deep foundations and also pipelines during construction and maintenance.

For monitoring infrastructures in-service including earth dams and bridges, the smart cement blocks of various shapes and sizes with and without aggregates and integrated with the two probe wireless system can be used. The shape and size of the smart cement blocks will depend on the application and the way to integrate it with the in-service infrastructures at the critical locations to be monitored.