Construction noise, vibration and dust monitoring hardware.
Noise, vibration and dust monitoring units for construction sites, designed and built end to end: sensing board, firmware, radio link and the reporting behind it. The radio and firmware side builds on our LoRaWAN node, which has reached a field trial in a plant room. Each of the three measurements would be designed as its own sensing channel.
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The problem
Construction firms working near neighbours meet BS 5228-1 and Section 61 prior consent, which covers noisy works. Spot checks see only the moments someone is on site, so continuous measurement is the natural alternative. A unit for a site has to cope with weather, be moved as the work moves and keep reporting without a technician beside it. Noise, vibration and dust are three different measurements, each with its own sensor and its own limits on what a custom board can claim. Formally rated measurements would need suitable sensors chosen and checked with you. The only node we have trialled sits indoors in a plant room, so site conditions would be new ground that we would test with you. Units also get knocked, moved and rained on, so they would be designed for handling.
What we'd build
Site units for noise, vibration and dust
A weatherproof monitoring unit that senses noise, vibration and particulates and reports over a wireless link. We would build this for you; no unit of ours is working on a site yet. Which measurements your consent needs, and over what averaging period, would be the first design question, answered before any layout begins. Units would be labelled by location so that each reading can be traced to a spot on site.
| Layer | What we'd do | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Sensing board | A custom board around suitable microphone, vibration and particulate sensors, with battery or solar power chosen for the site. | On our node: four temperature channels on one custom PCB |
| Firmware | Measure on an interval you set and summarise readings on the device, so the radio carries summaries rather than raw audio. | Averaging periods that match the limits in your consent, and what the unit does if the radio link drops |
| Radio | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or BLE, chosen for an open site that changes shape over time. | |
| Reporting | A telemetry database holding readings from each unit, with alerts and records for the reporting your consent requires. | Threshold alerts to the site team, a record per day and per location, and an export for the local authority |
| Mechanical | A weatherproof enclosure and fixings suited to hoardings and posts, scoped with you at the start. | Wind noise on microphones, dust on particulate sensors, and units that are easy to move between positions |
How working with us goes
- 01 Scope We agree what has to be built, where it lives and where the data goes.
- 02 Prototype Working hardware and firmware on your bench, tested against real conditions.
- 03 Pilot A small batch on real sites, with fixes folded back into the design.
- 04 Production Design for manufacture, a production run, and support once it is in the field.
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