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New earthquake monitoring tool for buildings
mageba’s new ROBO®QUAKE monitoring system is the perfect tool for warning and protecting building users and residents in case of an earthquake, and assisting owners and engineers afterwards in evaluating the impact on the structure.
Meet ROBO®QUAKE – mageba’s response to the need in seismic regions around the world for an off-the-shelf, IoT-compatible monitoring solution that can help protect buildings and their users from earthquakes. The stand-alone structural health monitoring system (SHMS) is based on mageba’s long-established ROBO®CONTROL SHMS, but is specifically tailored to provide detailed information about a structure’s behaviour before, during and after earthquakes (e.g. as illustrated by this sample report, enabling the impact of the earthquake on the structure to be assessed more quickly and more accurately. Perhaps more importantly in many cases, ROBO®QUAKE can be programmed to immediately sound an alarm signal or deliver an acoustic message over the building’s PA system, and to send immediate notification by SMS or email to the building’s owner or management. And it can even be used to automatically activate building protection equipment, e.g. for fire protection purposes or to cut off gas lines.
In addition to the immediate notifications by email or SMS, the system offers further possibilities for reporting of recorded events. Data is presented on the central data unit’s LCD display screen, and can be effortlessly printed using the unit’s small built-in printer. And of course, when connected to a remote computer, all data can be processed there. Connection to a separate computer may be established by cable (e.g. to a laptop during a site visit), or may be easily achieved, around the clock, using mageba’s ROBO®ONE cloud platform – an IoT-optimised cloud backend that was developed especially for ROBO®QUAKE and other mageba Internet-of-Things innovations such as ROBO®SMART. This cloud functionality enables the history of all recorded events to be viewed at any time, and makes detailed data available, e.g. for analysis by the building’s engineers.
This ready-made modular system is equipped with accelerographs as standard, but it may actually be equipped with virtually any type of sensor to expand its usefulness – indeed, making the system usable even for non-seismic applications. So with all the benefits it offers, with first orders having already been successfully delivered, we are confident that ROBO®QUAKE has an exciting future, becoming widely used in seismic regions around the world in years to come.
“Taking the right decisions during and right after earthquake events is a key factor in saving lives and properties. We are proud to pioneer in merging the latest cloud computing technologies with our expertise in earthquake engineering to bring IoT to the seismic protection of buildings. ROBO®QUAKE is the earthquake monitoring, alarm and protection system by mageba that allows real-time information about the vibration status of the structural components. Accompanied with state of the art algorithms that generate immediate and easy to understand summaries to assist engineers, residents, developers, owners and authorities to manage the risks associated with seismic events!”
Dr. Moustafa Imam, Chief Technical Officer – Asia Pacific, mageba China
