On March 19, 2026, the Wavelogix team hosted their latest Lunch & Learn webinar — What's New at Wavelogix: Dashboard Updates and the Future of Real-Time Concrete Strength Monitoring — and the conversation went well beyond a feature walkthrough.
CEO Joe Turek, Applications Development Lead Jake Visniski, and Director of Product Development Gerry Vanhorn spent an hour peeling back the curtain on how the REBEL® system is evolving: new dashboard capabilities, a smarter approach to reporting, a formal user group, and a roadmap that has real money-saving implications for contractors, DOTs, and municipalities.
Here's what you need to know.
The concrete industry hasn't lacked for data, it's lacked for timely data. Traditional cylinder breaks give you snapshots at fixed intervals: 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, 28 days. But what happens when a break doesn't hit the required strength? You wait. And waiting has a real cost.
As Gerry Vanhorn put it during the webinar: "They had to wait, typically, for that next day's interval, it could be 4 days later. And so they're just sitting there... because they may have only made a certain amount of cylinders."
Jake Visniski framed it from a scheduling standpoint: "There's this guesswork of when do I break my cylinders? I only have so many. And with us, our telemetry comes in real time, so you're able to see exactly when your concrete is hitting strength. It takes the guesswork out of it."
The REBEL® system's answer is continuous, in-place strength data, no maturity curves, no destructive testing, no staring at a schedule and hoping.
Ask anyone on the team what they're most excited about, and you'll hear the same answer: the multi-sensor plot.
"For me, I think the multi-sensor plot is one of the biggest upgrades we've made," said Jake. "It puts the expected mix strength, sensor data, breaks, cores, certification strength, and projection data on one screen. It allows you to see how sensors are tracking with the expected strength and allows for a fairly comprehensive analysis while you're still doing cylinder breaks."
In practice, that means no more clicking through individual sensors to get a picture of how your pour is performing. Everything lives in one view, including your ready-mix supplier's expected strength curve, so you can spot early if a mix is developing above or below expectations. That kind of early signal could flag a problem before it becomes a costly one.
This one came from the field. Nothing derails a job like finding out a sensor lost connectivity mid-pour. The updated dashboard now shows signal strength for each datalogger/sensor pair, a practical safeguard for sites with challenging environments.
"If the signal strength is poor, you can plan ahead of time to make any adjustments," Gerry explained. "Or you can have peace of mind if the signal strength is excellent."
Battery life visibility isn't new, but the team used this webinar to announce something that is: a new firmware release that adds over a week of additional battery capacity through software optimizations alone. More power, no new hardware required.
Real-time data is valuable. Predictive data could be transformative.
Wavelogix has introduced an early-stage strength projection feature, allowing teams to start forecasting when concrete will reach key milestones. The practical applications are significant, scheduling form removal, planning joint cuts, staging equipment, and, according to the team, the projections can begin earlier than 3 days into a cure cycle.
Jake was candid about where the feature stands: "It's experimental. We've done some validation on our side. Obviously, our main focus is making sure our predictions are as accurate as possible and presented in the best way." Cosmetic updates are also coming to improve how projections are displayed in the interface.
In the long term, the team sees this as one of the platform's most significant areas for growth.
One addition that sparked genuine excitement in the room was real-time weather data, including an estimated evaporation rate display, a feature Joe Turek called a potential game-changer, particularly given the industry's current challenges with 1L cement.
"When people start seeing the visual data, everybody wants to see it," Joe said. "It's like, where are we at?"
The evaporation rate feature gives contractors guidance on whether to cover or protect a pour, a decision that's inexpensive to act on early and very expensive to ignore until cracking appears.
For pavement and DOT applications, flexural strength matters as much as — or more than — compressive strength. The REBEL® sensor reads in compressive terms and uses an ACI standard to convert to flexural, but contractors doing their own mix-specific testing have needed more control.
The dashboard now allows users to modify the conversion coefficient, so teams can apply their own correlation data and see results that match their actual testing. "We provide the ability for you to change that coefficient so that you can see your data the way that you need to see it," Jake explained.
The reporting update is a story about listening.
CSV exports have been available for a while, useful for getting raw data into Excel and running your own analysis. But the industry was asking for something more formal, more shareable, and easier to hand off to stakeholders who aren't going to open a spreadsheet.
The answer is PDF reporting, currently in development and targeting an early Q2 release.
"If someone says, 'Hey, can you show me the data right now for XYZ project,' you can just click a button, shoot them off a PDF," Jake said. "It's really about building trust into the system."
The design of that PDF didn't happen in a vacuum. Fort Wayne, Indiana, a municipality Jake and Joe called out by name as one of their most forward-thinking partners, and Altunian Construction both contributed directly to what goes into the report.
One detail that made the cut: a photo of the sensor deployment, similar to the delivery confirmation photo Amazon leaves at your door. The idea, championed by Altounian, is to give stakeholders a verified record that the sensor was placed correctly, a small feature that carries real weight when data integrity is on the line.
The most strategic announcement of the webinar might also be the quietest one: the formal launch of the REBEL® User Group.
The idea is simple. Wavelogix wants direct, ongoing input from the people using the system in the field, not just support tickets and conference conversations, but a structured group that meets regularly (roughly every two months), previews upcoming features, and shapes what gets built next.
"We have ideas of how we think it should work, but our customers have the best idea, they have hands-on," Gerry said. "There is no substitute for getting a product in a customer's hands and listening to what they have to say."
The group is intentionally cross-sectional: ready-mix suppliers, DOT representatives, municipalities, and private contractors. Seven to eight members have already signed on. If you want to be at the front of what's coming before it ships to the general platform, this is the place to be.
Jake put it directly: "Whenever we get feedback from users, it goes into our task planning process. At least once a month, we sort through the suggestions to decide what gets built, what gets put on the back burner... everything gets considered."
The business case for real-time concrete strength monitoring isn't theoretical. Joe Turek walked through specifics during the webinar.
Working with Fort Wayne, Indiana, the team found that roads could open to traffic in approximately 2.5 days, compared with the standard 5–7 days. For a municipality dealing with impatient residents and politically sensitive street closures, that's not a minor improvement.
For contractors on larger paving projects, the numbers get bigger fast. Joe cited internal ROI analysis showing that shaving a single day from a paving project schedule can save $100,000 to $200,000 in labor and equipment costs. On municipal-scale projects, that figure is typically in the $10,000–$20,000 range per day.
And then there's the over-cementing problem. Because the industry has historically had little visibility into when concrete actually reaches its final certification strength, contractors tend to be conservative, using about 20% more cement than necessary. With real-time data, Wavelogix customers are regularly hitting final certification strength 9 to 10 days ahead of the traditional 28-day timeline.
As Joe summarized, "When people start using real-time data, they get a feel for it. It's hard to go back to static measurements."
No Wavelogix webinar would be complete without some range. Attendee William Torres dropped a question that stopped the team in their tracks: If you were monitoring the Hoover Dam today, how would you do it?
Joe's answer was actually technically interesting. Unlike maturity-based sensors, the REBEL® system uses acoustic profiling, allowing sensors to remain in place indefinitely — potentially monitoring concrete strength (and decay, if it occurs) for years or even decades. Combined with temperature monitoring from the embedded thermocouple, Joe noted that mass concrete projects like dams, where heat management during the pour is as important as strength, would actually be an ideal application.
William, if you have the contract, Wavelogix is ready to provide a quote.
The team wrapped with a look ahead. The roadmap includes continued improvements to strength projections, PDF reporting going live in Q2, the first REBEL® User Group session, and longer-term work on predictive analytics and broader stakeholder visibility.
The next webinar is scheduled for April. In the meantime, if you're thinking about a pilot or want to see how REBEL® fits into your projects, reach the team at sales@wavelogix.tech.
Watch the full webinar recording.