Our Mission

YieldPoint designs, manufactures and supports geotechnical monitoring solutions of the highest quality and reliability and at the best possible price for the Civil and Mining industries. We help our customers worldwide to implement geotechnical monitoring programs that give them the best possible insight into the behaviour of their structures, be they natural or engineered. Our back-end interpretation tools multiplies the value of the data collected in Mining, Civil and Construction projects. This in turn allows for a better understanding and promote better anticipation of future changes in the structures.

On June 14, 2024 YieldPoint Inc., was acquired by Epiroc. It continues to operate under the name YieldPoint with the same address, activities and personnel and is now a member of Epiroc Canada.

Our product offering for geotechnical monitoring help enhance safety and productivity, and we strive for total Customer satisfaction through superior and responsive customer service. We provide leading-edge technologies by cultivating innovation focused on our customers’ needs. We are committed to sustained growth through continued investment in product development and manufacturing methods.

YieldPoint is recognized collectively and individually as a leader and contributor in the geotechnical monitoring field. We fulfill our goals using a straight-forward, direct, open and honest approach with our customers, partners, sub-contractors and suppliers.

The YieldPoint Story

YieldPoint Inc. was incorporated in 2001 as a geotechnical monitoring instrumentation company with the goal of designing and manufacturing a ‘smarter’ and more robust generation of geotechnical instruments. We used an digital architecture by embedding into every instrument a microcontroller with Flash memory. Digital Signal Processing allowed YieldPoint to begin manufacturing highly accurate instruments at low cost.

Following 15 years of incremental improvement, YieldPoint is now positioned to offer a digital product line that intersects with a major new idea: the Internet of Things (IoT), leveraging its benefits for better geotechnical monitoring purposes. Our efforts and inventiveness result in user-friendly geotechnical monitoring solutions with improved accuracy and reliability in even the harshest environments.

Our growing expertise in this field will result in fundamental research breakthroughs in the field of rock mechanics. Thanks to the extreme accuracy and reliability of our instrument we can now solve geotechnical monitoring problems that we couldn’t have imagined existed 15 years ago.

The Team

YieldPoint Inc has assembled a highly qualified team that provides both world class research expertise as well as exceptional customer support.

Andrew Hyett PhD.

Head of Research

Dr Andrew Hyett received his PhD in 1990 from the Royal School of Mines Imperial College, London. While at Queens University, Kingston, he invented the SMART cable bolt and co-founded Mine Design Technologies Inc. On leaving MDT in 2000 he founded YieldPoint  to offer smarter and more reliable digital geotechnical instruments, giving his company a major edge over the competitors who offered only analog instruments. In June 2024 Andrew sold YieldPoint to Epiroc. After all these years he is still passionate and motivated by the opportunities for innovation in Geotechnical Monitoring. His interests also include bass fishing, F1 and sadly Leeds United.

Pierre Ballester

Director of Business Development

Pierre Ballester joined YieldPoint in 2012 and has been singularly instrumental in the successful growth of the company. He has elevated YieldPoint to a serious player competing for large civil engineering contracts, Pierre is driven by a desire to offer excellence in service and by his confidence in YieldPoint’s solutions. Contact him with all your questions! LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Skype, email, phone, Meets, Teams or other means of your choice.

Rachelle LaBossiere

Operations Controller

Rachelle is YieldPoint’s Operational Controller. She is the point-of-contact for Procurement, AR, AP and Payroll. Rachelle came to YieldPoint in 2023 with a College Diploma in Accounting and Payroll,  and also has experience running her own Fitness Center business.

Rachelle’s puppy is awfully cute.

Steven Fu

Backend Engineer and Android Developer

Steven arrived to YieldPoint with an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics from The University of Toronto. He will be working on the back-end of VantagePoint and BluPoint App.

YieldPoint aims to use Steven’s mathematical skills as we build out the AI module for VantagePoint. Steven may be your point-of-contact for BluPoint App and VantagePoint assistance.

Jason Lu

Software and Firmware Engineer

Jason is a skilled software and firmware engineer with experience in C & C++ and previous experience developing firmware for ARM devices. He is currently developing new and updated firmwares for much of our IoT hardware. Jason’s latest projects include the Blu900 telemetry system and BluVibe.

Jason has caught some bigger fish since he joined YieldPoint.

Jose Rubens Dos Santos

Mechatronics Engineer

Jose joined us with over 20 years of manufacturing experience. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Control and Automation Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University in Brazil, his expertise  and creativity are a critical for  our company. Jose works tirelessly to improve YieldPoint’s instruments and the processes for making them.  He has been central in developing the new dPPC. His hobbies include archery and diving.

Daniel Bolivar

Production Supervisor

Daniel got his education as a Control Engineering Technician at St. Lawrence College here in Kingston. After working for several high-end manufacturing companies, he came to us at YieldPoint. Since then he has been key to manufacturing our instruments with a strong sense of ownership and a unique emphasis on quality. Daniel is also in charge of our Procurement and Cost Optimization strategy.
Although a Red Bull fan, Daniel finds that this 2024 F1 season is much more exciting than the 2023 season was.

James Kellway

Production Technologist

James spent 3 years at St. Lawrence College to become a Civil Engineering Technologist. In his final year he became involved with YieldPoint during his Co-op learning program. Now a graduate, he works for YieldPoint in the production team building the instruments used by companies around the world. James
is the best and most experienced maker of extensometers in the world. In his off time, James enjoys boating and fishing like many here at YieldPoint.

Brody Riddle

Production Technologist

Brody joins us with 15 years of construction experience. His most recent job was as a supervisor for Coda Exteriors. His accolades include several construction-related certifications. Brody is a hard worker and hasn’t met a challenge yet that he couldn’t succeed at.

Brody brings energy and good humor to work every day.