Seismic Building Monitoring
Earthquake Monitoring for all types of buildings
Seismic Building Monitoring
The two most important reasons to monitor a building are to measure an earthquakes impact on the building and to monitor the general health of the structure over time. In both cases, the monitoring system is an essential tool for engineers and building owners, which help create a picture of the structural health of the building and ultimately determine if the building is safe to use. In many countries which are prone to large earthquakes, installing seismic monitoring systems is required by local laws or regulations.
Seismic Event Capture
Monitoring how seismic activity affects a building is highly important. Earthquakes have potential to compromise the structural integrity of the building, so measuring the vibration at key points of the structure is crucial in order to compare the peak accelerations to the design specifications of the structure.
The Seismic Building Monitoring System enables owners, operators and engineers to assess the impact of an earthquake on the structure. Upon a seismic event, the system will generate earthquake event records, which will provide input for an automatically generated event report which details important parameters of the earthquake which are crucial for assessing the safety of the building.
Easy to use
The Seisodin Seismic Monitoring System for buildings is designed for easy installation, easy operation, low cost of ownership and low maintenance requirements. However, one of the most unique features of the system is how easy it is to understand the data it produces. The system outputs live seismic data, not only as waveforms, but as live seismic intensity (MMI or PEIS seismic scales). For each earthquake an event is created, and the waveform is presented in a report along with the seismic intensity and PGA, PGV and PGD measured by each sensor. All of this is automatic, and no complicated analysis software is required – giving you an instant overview of the effects of the earthquake on the building.
Beyond state-of-the-art
The Tilia-series accelerographs can easily be daisy chained using the worlds most available data cable, CAT6 with RJ45 connectors, or fiber optical cabling or even a mix of both! This system provides great flexibility, regardless if 1, 3 or 20 sensors are required and allows transmitting both power, network signal and time synchronization directly in a single, economical cable. With Seisodin systems there are no bulky external boxes and converters or expensive IT solutions required as everything is integrated directly inside the box – even the fiber optic interface (Tilia T130F or T100F) for applications with long distances. Additionally, the Tilia accelerographs are perfectly synchronized using precise hardware-based PTP timing ensuring you a 40 nano-second best-in-market synchronization between the sensors, and with the integrated uninterruptible power supply (UPS) recording is secured even during power outages.
