Suono Monitoring System

The planned development of the British Library will bring heavy excavation and construction activity to the footprint of the Francis Crick Institute, noting that humanly imperceptible vibration may still be several orders of magnitude above tolerable limits for some departments.

Suono are appointed by the Crick to review British Library proposals, advise on noise and vibration control, and ensure that construction vibration impacts are minimised as far as practicable. As part of this, a realtime vibration monitoring system was found to be necessary to provide information to the Crick scientists of when their activity might be disturbed by occasional construction related increases in vibration.

With the support of AcSoft and others, we reviewed the market for vibration monitoring systems to achieve the project requirements; and, for the necessary sensitivity, frequency range, custom tolerance thresholds, and required functionality for end users, we concluded that there are no such proprietary off-the-shelf systems are sufficiently suitable.

Suono were therefore commissioned to develop a vibration monitoring system capable of capturing, analysing and presenting results in a near realtime on an internet accessible interface.

We want to acknowledge and thank Semex for their pro-active support and willingness to adapt sensor firmware for our purposes.