Traditional industrial
noise measurement techniques have limitations
Traditionally, monitoring
noise levels from mines, quarries or industrial facilities
has been undertaken using a combination of unattended and
attended monitoring.
A challenge for many industrial
sites is how to
distinguish their
sites noise contribution from other
sources such as adjacent industry or nearby road.
BarnOwl®
radar plot showing direction & strength of noise sources
Traditional
noise measurement techniques have limitations
Unattended
monitoring is inaccurate – No certainty
what is causing the noise.
Attended monitoring
is time consuming – Noise direction can
be identified but how long to measure. How often do we
hear ‘You should have been here yesterday!’
Short-term attended
measurements are unpredictable – Can often
get different results from changes in weather and operational
activity on a day-to-day basis.
Analysis from
attended measurements is subjective – Estimating
noise contributions from an industry source within the
total noise is a subjective process.
The use of traditional noise monitoring methods to
resolve noise complaints, monitor compliance within
noise limits and undertake real time noise control
have been prone to inaccuracy and can be very time
consuming at anti-social hours.
This can result in protracted assessment processes
and industry negotiations and ultimately community
uncertainty.
BarnOwl®
provides accurate real time noise levels and direction
The benefits of BarnOwl®’s noise
monitoring method over traditional techniques are:
Quicker
and more accurate resolution of noise issues;
Allows industry
to improve operational efficiency;
Fairer negotiations
between industry and regulators; and
Better outcome
for affected communities.
BarnOwl®
achieves this by
Providing
accurate measurements with true directional monitoring;
Eliminating debate
over the subjective nature of attended measurements;
Allowing longer
measurement durations which provides accurate consideration
of variable conditions (weather and operations);
Providing fully
automated and unattended monitoring that reduces
the resource overhead associated with attended monitoring;
and
Allowing real
time noise data to be received and acted on to reduce
noise by site operational teams.
BarnOwl® Version 4 running on Sinus Soundbook
low power mobile option
