EEWS SeismicGuard Platform

The Differences from other countries

What differentiates our device from those used
in Japan, the U.S., Mexico, Canada and other countries

The Earthquake Early Warning as known so far is based on a system architecture that involves the installation of very many monitoring stations connected to a Server that acquires and devolves to very sophisticated algorithms the analysis of the detected data.
After discarding thousands of inconsistent information (data) received from the monitoring stations, verified that it was indeed a seismic event and not a man-made or extreme weather event, the server sends the alert signal to the clients in the affected district. There are then miles of inconsistent data that the server must analyze and discard so that “false positives” are not generated. And to do this, the server takes time, precious seconds subtracted from the sudden sending of the alert .

The Earthquake Early Warning System implemented by Nowtech Solutions is fundamentally different from the widely used model because the server is given the sole task of identifying to which actuating devices, to which clients, send the alert. Our server does not have to deal with verifying whether it was a false alarm or whether it was an Earthquake. Saving precious seconds.
It is with this result in mind, saving precious seconds, that we designed, built, tested, perfected, certified and patented our NowTech Solutions NT RSS902 EEWS Seismic Monitoring Station, which is the basis of our Seismic Early Warning system. We thought, for example, about operating rooms in hospitals, schools, university campuses, dams, viaducts, all “sensitive structures,” just to name a few.
Places where time is precious, where one less second spent on data processing is worth a lot.

We save time because the sudden activation of the alert is the basis of the mitigation of damage generated by an Earthquake.

No Organization, in Italy and in the world, except us at NowTech Solutions, has available a detection tool, a seismic monitoring station, that stand-alone verifies these factors and sends a clean alert signal without having to devolve to the server the task of purging inconsistent data.

NowTech Solutions NT RSS902 EEWS seismic monitoring stations can be installed in any type of structure and/or infrastructure, even in the open field (Free-Field).

Our Earthquake Early Warning model is very suitable for Public use and for Security Agencies. Smart Cities should be equipped with an Earthquake Early Warning System.

Your Safety, Our Mission

strengths

Why choose
SeismicGuard Platform

SMART CITY
INTEGRATION

PUBLIC
FACILITIES

UTILITY

FIRST
AID

TRASPORTATION

We build local seismic monitoring networks consisting of:

NT RSS902 EEWS Survey;
StationsServer responsible for collecting the sensed data and sending the alert to the actuators;
Actuator devices.

NT EQG DISPAT_4CH EEWS actuator devices are installed within the perimeter covered by the seismic monitoring service performed with NowTech Solutions NT RSS902 EEWS sensing stations.
For Public Administration Nowtech Solutions realizes entire seismic monitoring networks based on the use of NT RSS902 EEWS sensing stations.
The monitoring stations are installed, approximately, every 20 to 30 km in an area line to form a diffuse network of seismic detection within which it is possible to send to NT EQG DISPAT_4CH EEWS Actuator Devices the Earthquake alert signal.

P wave or primary wave

P-wave is the fastest but the least dangerous because it is of the “compressional” type.

S-wave or secondary wave

the S-Wave travels at a speed of about half the speed of the P-Waves and is a wave that releases energy in the “transverse” direction with respect to the direction of propagation.

R/L waves also called surface waves

R/L Waves also called “surface” waves are by far the least fast but very damaging because they cause the ground to “vibrate” according to elliptical and retrograde orbits (R wave), as when a stone is thrown into water, and in the horizontal and transverse plane (L wave), resulting in the greatest shaking of buildings.

why it is possible?

An earthquake generates
3 types of Seismic Wave

The SeismicGuard system acts in the time space between the arrival of the P-waves and the arrival of the subsequent secondary and surface waves that are much more dangerous; the time advance of the warning varies in relation to the depth of the earthquake and the distance from the hypocenter to the location. Making seismic monitoring districts aimed at early warning is our job. The architecture of the monitoring and early warning system developed by NowTech Solutions consists of an expandable redundant central server, structured to be expanded in relation to the increasing number of detection and actuation peripherals to be configured. All monitoring stations and all actuating devices surveyed within the monitoring network are authenticated on the main server, which also serves the purpose of filtering and inhibiting any unwanted connections.

Our NT RSS902 EEWS seismic monitoring stations can be integrated with existing acquisition and alerting platforms, even third-party ones, thanks to the possibility of customizing the transmission protocol of the sensed data. NowTech Solutions integrates the Earthquake Early Warning System with the NOWTICE massive alert state branching software, a multilevel tool designed for communication in emergencies.

neighborhood alerting

Rely on the professionals
of Public Safety

When it comes to security and Civil Defense, one cannot improvise.
Just as response teams and administrative managers must be ready to respond, the tools at their disposal must also be adequate.
Nowtice® is a platform born from more than 20 years of continuous experience in the field of emergencies, volunteers and mission management. Made in Italy by those with concepts like speed, ease and regulatory protection in their own corporate DNA.

EEWS SeismicGuard Platform

The Differences from other countries