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Sensors, safety thresholds, measurement interpretation and asset maintenance, written by a team that has built monitoring systems for 15 years.

Vibration Sampling, Trigger and Pre-Trigger

A recorder can save an event that is not suitable for the chosen analysis. See how to select sampling, triggering and the pre-event buffer from the final result, not from factory defaults.

  • Three parameters, three different tasks
  • Nyquist without the shortcut “twice is enough”
  • Select recording from the final result backwards
  • Trigger: the recording threshold is not a safety threshold
  • Pre-trigger: the part of the event that has not happened yet
  • Throughput and memory are part of the measurement
  • Procurement checklist for vibration recording
  • How it works in Inclify
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Building vibration: damage versus human comfort

A resident complaint and a structural damage risk are two different questions. This guide shows how to design two assessment tracks, avoid mixing standards, and commission a measurement that really answers the decision.

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