Cautus Geo timeline

Cautus Geo established emergency monitoring in Størdal after the landslide that closed the Meråker line on Friday 7 November. Two working days later, the site of the collapse was placed under automatic and continuous monitoring.

Cautus Geo will have its own stand at NGF seminar on groundwater. It will be held at Kløfta on 9-10 September. Kim Lindmark (pictured) and Atle Gerhardsen will be at the stand. Over 200 participants attend.

Civil engineer Emma Sørset (26) wrote her master's thesis on avalanches at NTNU. Now she is strengthening the development department at Cautus Geo. From August 2025, she is a new employee in the company.

NIKU has signed an extended framework agreement for cultural heritage monitoring. The agreement ensures an extension of the monitoring of cultural layers from the Middle Ages. In addition, NIKU's ground surveys will be carried out prior to the start-up of potential projects in the country's eight medieval towns. The agreement has been extended for five years. This is the same length as the previous framework agreement.

Cautus Geo acquires the shares in Scanmatic and becomes a leading player in monitoring in the Nordic region. After 2025, the companies will continue as independent limited companies, each with its own organisation.

Cautus Geo monitored the ice edge in Antarctica to secure the unloading of the annual supply to the Troll research station on behalf of the Polar Institute.

In March, three avalanche runs in Oldedalen in Stryn were put on radar monitoring to warn of avalanches. In December, the the plant put into operation. This means that all facilities that detect avalanches are in operation for the 2024/2025 winter season. The facility in Oldedalen is the most modern based on radar at the beginning of 2025.

New and world-leading: Cautus RADS is installed at Gudvangen. This provides year-round protection. Traffic is stopped by traffic lights. Cautus Geo has been securing Gudvangen since 2019. For the first few years, only during the winter months. Now the monitoring has been extended to all year round and all types of landslides.

Cautus Geo monitors the railway track through the centre of Stange. A new double track is being built there. At the same time, trains are running as normal.

NTNU student Marthe Kristine Nilsen (22) is first summer employee in the history of Cautus Geo. She was given a temporary position for eight weeks. It was rewarding for her and for Cautus Geo, which thanks her for her efforts.

May Kvalheim Bagge-Lund (49) has been appointed as new head of water and environment. She had her first working day with us on 2 May 2024.

Bjørnar Nevland Knudsen (28) is newly appointed geodesist in Cautus Geo. He comes from a position as a surveying engineer at Scan Survey. His first day of work was 3 January 2024.

Cautus Geo won the contract for radar monitoring with warning and closure of the E16 past Bogelia in Vaksdal municipality. The section is very vulnerable to landslides. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is the client. The contract is for up to 12 years.

In January 2023, Cautus Geo established Avalanche monitoring on the Beisfjord road in Nordland. Before the 2023/2024 avalanche season, the lighting system was installed. Traffic is now stopped automatically before heavy debris reaches the county road.

Skutshorn in Valdres has been placed on NVE's list of mountain areas at high risk of landslides. In the autumn of 2023, Cautus Geo started instrumenting the mountain section. Since then it has been continuously monitored.

Øystein Jensen is appointed to the newly created position of technical manager. He will take up the position on 1 September 2023.

Cautus Geo starts monitoring the external environment for New E6 from Biri to Øyer. Much of it is about water quality and the possible impact on vulnerable nature in the Mjøsa inlet at Lillehammer. Tunnelling, groundwater, dust and noise are also included.

Cautus Geos first electric bicycle will be commissioned in the summer of 2023. It is specially rigged with its own lorry adapted for call-outs to assignments in the surrounding areas of Oslo and Bærum. Fast, agile and environmentally friendly.

Catus Geo has developed world-leading technology for monitoring and warning of avalanches and rockfalls. It was tested on Mannen last winter - "Provides new opportunities," says development manager Lars Krangnes.

The work in KlimaGrunn has succeeded. The innovation partnership reports halved emissions from ground stabilisation in clay.

Cautus Geo hires the company's first sales manager. Kim Lindmark will take up the position. He will be in place from 1 March 2023.

Cautus Geo make Vossatrauet smart with sensor technology and the access solution Cautus Web. The first is delivered to Rogaland County Council.

Cautus Geo shell avalanche-proof Beisfjordveien in Nordland with radar. The system will be installed by 1 February 2023.

Cautus Geo has won New framework agreement with NIKU  for "environmental monitoring of cultural layers", as a partner with Cowi. The agreement replaces a previous framework agreement that ran until autumn 2022.

Lars Petter Sundve (42) is employed as project manager in a newly created position within monitoring and warning of avalanches, landslides and rockfalls.

Cautus Geo is investing in Northern Norway. Regional office has been established in Tromsø. It will be led by geologist Håvard Hind. He is from the city and knows the region well.

Cautus Geo has established radar monitoring of rockfalls at Andøya. New technology has once again been developed by Cautus Geo. Nordland County Council is behind the pilot and verification project. During the first few days, the system detected several rock slides. One landslide reached national road 7702, which runs on the west side of Andøya.

Cautus Geo shell Monitor the ground for the new E18 motorway/West Corridor. 179 pore pressure gauges, on the stretch from Lysaker to Ramstad, will send real-time data to Cautus Web, alerting it to changes in pore pressure and groundwater that can cause subsidence damage to buildings and infrastructure.

Hydrologist Martin Heltberg (25) is employed in a newly created position.

Eskil Bradley is on his first day in his newly created position as product manager. He comes with international experience from the technology industry and joins the management team.

Cautus Geo gets a new partner on the ownership side. Enter the private equity fund Equip. The goal is to build an international technology company. Lars Krangnes, Vegard Svendgård and Atle Gerhardsen continue as managers and minority owners in the company.

The Tussafoten mountain range at 1100 metres above Øvre Eidfjord may be added to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate's list for continuous monitoring. We installed equipment to start continuous monitoring on the mountain section in autumn 2021.

Martine Berg-Jensen with a master's degree in environmental monitoring and nature management strengthens the Cautus Geo team within environmental monitoring, R&D and innovation activities. She comes from a position as senior technical advisor in Igaidi.

Cautus Geo is growing. Now the team is expanding. Torgrim Soterud (28) has been appointed to a brand new position. He starts on 1 September this year.

Three years of laboratory testing and extensive technology development for the EU-developed water quality monitoring system to undergo large-scale testing. Development began in 2018 with funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, Fast Track to Innovation. The project is led by CTO Lars Krangnes in Cautus Geo.

Medieval artefacts under Stavanger Cathedral should be preserved "in situ", i.e. where they are located. Cautus Geo has installed monitoring in the crypt cellar. "The cultural artefacts can provide answers to several major questions in medieval research," says NIKU.

Cautus Geo monitors the groundwater at Espa in Stange. Bane NOR, which is building a new tunnel on the Dovre Line, is behind the project. The monitoring will ensure that no one loses their drinking water. If the groundwater drops, measures will be taken.

Automatic monitoring of water and environment has become a significant area in just a few years and is contributing strongly to a new record year in 2020. This is due to the build-up of expertise, new systems and new equipment. The number of projects has grown from two in 2017 to 30 in 2020.

Cautus Geo is a member of KlimaGrunn. The work started in 2020. The aim is to cut greenhouse gas emissions. It can provide new methods in groundwork for the building and construction industry. The companies in the project group also include Multiconsult, Norcem and Argeo. The client is the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Bane NOR and Statsbygg.

Monitoring medieval heritage sites in Turku, one of Finland's six medieval cities. For us, this is our first assignment in Finland. For Finland, this is the first sensor project with automatic culture monitoring.

Cautus Geo is speeding up The IoT initiative through a new expansion. Electrical and automation engineer Henning Lindseth is employed in a newly created position.

Cautus Geo is launching three new data loggers. They build on the CL1 logger from 2014. One of the new ones is a smart economy model. It is powered by an internal battery and is developed as a tailor-made solution for the construction industry.

Cautus Geo has installed prisms tens of metres up in the spire of the cathedral as part of the Monitoring of Torvbyen in Fredrikstad. 19 sensors (crack meters, strain gauges) have been installed inside the shopping centre and 22 prisms that provide 3D formation with a total station have been installed outside.

Cautus Geo AS follows the authorities' advice to combat Covid-19. Operations take place from home offices. The aim is to avoid the spread of infection.

In 2014, we set up the country's first automatic radar-based system for avalanche detection with automatic warning and closure of roads in Norway. Early in the morning of Tuesday 25 February, a large avalanche crossed national road 51 in Lom.. The system worked as it should. Traffic was stopped with a red light before the snow masses swept across the motorway and also smashed the radar that warned of the avalanche.

Cautus Geo is moving into new premises, larger and modern premises in Arnstein Arnebergsvei 28 in Lysaker on 1 December. The company is growing and needs more space.

Cautus Geo monitors pressure and water quality under development of Museumsutstikkeren. The developer wants to control the pressure load for the Opera tunnel and ensure the living conditions for salmon and sea trout.

Cautus Geo is investing in ground-based InSAR (radar measurement from satellite) for monitoring of Stavbrekkfonna. With measurement systems such as laser scanners, ground-based InSAR, multibeam, total stations, GNSS equipment and multiple photogrammetry drones, Cautus Geo offers some of the coolest equipment available for mapping natural hazards and structures.

Cautus Geo moves up into the "Champions League" of innovation and deelopment, says Innovation Norway upon distribution of EU-funding from the EU's Horizon 2020 programme. Cautus Geo is one of two companies in Norway who receive approval for their "Fast Track to Innovation" applications. The EU support will go towards development of a new type of water sensor that measures pesticides in water in real-time.

Cautus Geo wins its first avalanche monitoring project with geophone at Rv37 at Tinnsjøen in Telemark. The system is wireless. It will quickly detect avalanches and close Tinnsjøveien with traffic lights and barriers.

Cautus Geo is once again recognised as a Gazelle. The first time was in 2013. The organisation behind the award is Dagens Næringsliv. The criteria include annual growth in turnover, at least doubling in four years, with a positive operating result.

We are getting stronger. This means that we can now do both mapping and deformation analysis using multibeam, laser scanner and photogrammetry from a drone.

We are starting up our largest R&D project. The name of the project is "Continuous pesticide sensing in the environment", abbreviated CoPs. The project is supported by the EU and the Research Council of Norway. The aim is to develop a system for automatic and continuous measurement of a number of different pesticides (chemical agents) with real-time reporting.

Condotte is the main contractor. Later, Bane NOR took over as the client for Cautus Geo on introduction Oslo S. The project is developing into a major project. Eventually it includes monitoring of ground conditions, structures under construction, existing buildings and railway.

Part of the Mannen mountain starts to move. The area is named Veslemen. Cautus Geo is contributing measuring equipment for mapping and monitoring this part of the mountain.

Cautus Geo is winning more and more ground monitoring projects in the Bispevika area.

Start-up of the E134 project in Telemark. Cautus Geo contributes with extensive monitoring of ground conditions.

Cautus Geo opens a branch office in Voss. This means that we are strengthening our presence in Western Norway.

We develop our own pore pressure sensor particularly suitable for Nordic conditions. Over the next few years, this sensor will be widely used in a number of different projects in Norway.

In 2013, a large-scale development of the Bjørvika area will begin. Cautus Geo is involved in the first project in mid-2013. It is the start of a number of years of monitoring ground conditions and structures in the area.

We are named a Gazelle company. The award is organised by Dagens Næringsliv and Bisnode. The criteria include, among other things, having an annual growth in turnover, at least doubling in four years, with a positive operating result.

Starting development of our first avalanche radar. The first tests will be carried out in late winter 2013.

We are starting up one of our largest groundwater monitoring projects along the new The Vestfold railway between Larvik and Porsgrunn. The project includes automated groundwater level monitoring with near real-time web data visualised on Cautus Web.

In Trondheim, the Strindheim tunnel is being built and in Bakklandet, the project will start the tunnel in an area with clay and little rock. The SAAF system is used to monitor deformation in the rock above the piling.

Cautus Geo becomes distributor of a new monitoring system from Measurand in Canada. The system will prove to be widely used around the world and not least in Norway.

Signs agreement with software company and one of the world's leading manufacturers of positioning equipment, US-owned Trimble, which are big on Saas (cloud services for use in areas such as transport, surveillance, GNSS and agriculture). The agreement provides commercialisation of Cautus Web.

Upgrading the total station solution with a new Trimble 58 long range at Åkneset. We then manage the largest GNSS-network (technology using satellites) for deformation monitoring in Northern Europe.

Cautus Geo establishes a laser surveillance system on the Mannen mountain in Rauma municipality. Three lasers were set up and operational before 1 November. Later, Mannen would become one of the more extensive and complex projects for the company.

Cautus Geo takes over responsibility for the instrumentation and monitoring of Åkneset. The mission and the system are widely featured in the recognised professional journal for geodesy, American Surveyor.