Syscom Instruments’ Barth Jacquot and Andrea Bellino presented a live webinar that shows how ROCK Acceleration can improve the safety of building and civil infrastructure by delivering crucial data in near real-time.
This webinar covered:
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An overview of Syscom Instruments’ ROCK Acceleration’s key innovative features
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How dynamic structural health monitoring fits into maintenance and safety remediation plans
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Demonstration of data workflow with the Syscom Cloud Software (SCS) with its unique common recording feature
We received several questions during the webinar that we’ve answered below:
Q: What’s the price of the new ROCK Acceleration?
A: We suggest to contact Syscom directly for details. That said, the ROCK Acceleration is available as a cost-effective, standard model for permanent long-term monitoring, and the ROCK Acceleration HD, is designed for high-definition monitoring.
Q: Did you say the units are synchronized at 10 milliseconds or microseconds?
A: The answer is microseconds. ROCK Acceleration is best in-class for 10 microseconds as the maximum synchronization delay.
Q: Can you track the battery life through the website?
A: Yes. This is possible. When you are in your project view, in Syscom Cloud Software (SCS), you can see two icons next to the name of the unit. The first is the status of the unit, which shows the unit is activated and communicating. The second icon shows the battery life. You can click on the unit and see more detailed information about the unit, including battery life.
Q: Can you comment on what geotechnical applications can be done with the ROCK Acceleration?
A: Based on the very good time synchronization that we mentioned, and in fact, this instrument or several instruments located around a source of vibration will be able to capture the wave—the vibration propagation—on the soil, and on the sub-soil, as well.
The ROCK Acceleration enables some geotechnical and subsurface investigation based on two things. First, because of the time synchronization. Secondly, the sensitivity of the sensor, especially the MS2010 sensor in the ROCK acceleration HD that will be able to also capture ambient vibrations similar to what you can do with an MR3003. You’ll be able to use methods like, [MASW, HV methods, wave propagation methods, to understand the the source of the vibration and localization of a blast and things like that, but it’s to be, to be [dig-INAUDIBLE] tested as well.
Q: What is the temperature range of ROCK Acceleration? Can it be used above 50°C?
A: The ROCK Acceleration’s operating temperature is between minus -20 and 50 °C. We can discuss on an individual, case-by-case basis, because, every application has unique considerations.
Q: Can you export to MATLAB directly or via the SCS?
A: So the SCS is mandatory. It’s a must to have communication between the ROCK Acceleration and SCS. From SCS you can push the data with an API. I think for MATLAB it would be more suitable with an ASCII file, and then you can import into MATLAB quite easily.
Q: Is there internal data storage to use without a server connection, for example, underground?
A: Yes, there is internal storage, but this should be seen a backup solution. The instrument is designed to be used in places with an LTE connection. If for some reason there is a communication problem, there is an internal memory, but you you cannot expect to to measure for, weeks continuously, for example. You should consider it as a temporary backup solution in case there is a problem with the LTE. When the LTE is available again, the memory card is emptied as soon as the data transferred to the SCS.
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Watch the webinar on-demand to learn more how to use Syscom Instruments’ ROCK Acceleration for dynamic structural health monitoring (SHM)