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Alarms and procedures Aug 18, 2026

Alarm thresholds in structural monitoring: how to set them

A threshold without a procedure is noise. A guide to setting warning and alarm thresholds in structural monitoring: value sources, three states, seven safeguards against false alarms, a ready reaction matrix, and tuning after 30 days.

An alarm that nobody cares about is the worst kind of alarm
Threshold value sources: where to get the numbers
WARNING / ALARM / NO_DATA - three states, three procedures
Value, trend, rate, dynamic envelope
False alarms: 7 causes and 7 safeguards
Reaction plan: who-what-when matrix
Threshold tuning after 30 days of data
What it looks like in Inclify

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Alarms and procedures Jul 6, 2026

TARP Alarm Response Plan: from threshold to action

A threshold with no assigned response is just a number. See how to structure TARP, link the alarm to responsibility, and rehearse the first 15 minutes of an event.

Alarms and procedures Jul 2, 2026

False alarms in structural monitoring: how to reduce them

An alarm that rings every few minutes quickly loses meaning. See how to distinguish hysteresis, repeat lockout, acknowledgement and silence, and tune rules without replacing design with statistics.

No-data alarm: sensor silence does not mean safety

No threshold breach is not a good state if the source has stopped sending. A guide to NO_DATA: window, scope, response, false reports, history backfill and testing.

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