Webinar Schedule

Ensuring the Trustworthiness of Seismic Response Data During Emergencies –
How Instrument Selection Impacts Real-Time Decision-Making

Featuring Dr. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Accurate measurements are critical in determining the impact of ground motion on buildings and other infrastructure, and underpin critical key indicators, such as interstory drift, of the seismic performance of buildings.

Building codes and design guidelines identify limits on parameters based on historical data from instrumented buildings and experimental evaluation in laboratories, but the real-time information available to engineers, decision makers, and emergency responders is only as reliable as the system providing the information.

In short, engineers and other emergency decision makers can only make informed, responsible decisions during earthquakes when building motion is accurately measured.

In this informative webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Khalid Saifullah will review important factors impacting the use and applicability of different kinds of seismic instrumentation under different scenarios. Data quality, reliability, and operational considerations will be evaluated.

Dr. Saifullah will also describe the testing procedures and results from a comparative study of accelerometers in a controlled environment designed to represent real-world conditions.

This session is a must for structural engineers, and anyone involved with the decision-making processes associated with post-earthquake assessments.

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Earthquake Engineering, Instrumentation, KMIDam

Featuring Dr. André Alegre, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Dams are high potential risk infrastructures, designed to operate safely for many decades and to withstand exceptional loads. However, during their long lifespan, the structural condition can be affected by progressive deterioration or by earthquakes, leading to a loss of serviceability or even compromising structural integrity. The implementation of comprehensive monitoring for these critical structures is indispensable to allow for reliable observation and assessment of dam behavior in the long term, under normal operating conditions, and during exceptional events, such as earthquakes.

KMIDam is a complete dam management platform that combines Kinemetrics’ world-class instrumentation, ensuring maximum data return and unmatched reliability, and a high-end data center powered by advanced software tools for real-time seismic monitoring and alerting, automated event reporting, long-term structural health monitoring, and digital twinning.

In this session, Dr. André Alegre will explain how continuous access to actionable information through the KMIDam Platform facilitates long-term structural health monitoring, routine operations, and dam performance assessments during earthquake events. This presentation will demonstrate how enabling data-driven, informed decision-making ensures safe and compliant day-to-day operations and efficient emergency response management.

This webinar and Q&A session is a must for dam operators, engineers, and anyone interested in a detailed conversation about how breakthroughs made during real-world dam monitoring projects have advanced technology and influenced the state-of-the-art KMIDam Platform.

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From Trusted Solutions to Complete Platforms: How Past Innovation
Drives Future Technology

Featuring: Dr. Mathias Franke, Dr. André Alegre, Marlon Agüero, and Dr. Khalid Saifullah, Kinemetrics, Inc.

The Kinemetrics Open System & Services Division is well known for delivering and operating world-class seismic, environmental monitoring, and structural health monitoring solutions. The combination of the unmatched technology of Kinemetrics instrumentation and software combined with the decades of real-world experience of the OSS team drive industry-leading results.

But how did OSS get to this level, and what does the future hold for state-of-the-art solutions?

In this informative panel discussion and Q&A session, members of the OSS team leading development of solutions for dams, bridges, LNG facilities, and more will discuss the benchmark projects that led to key technical and operational breakthroughs that advanced Kinemetrics solutions to their current state. In addition, the panel will provide expert insight into how the lineup of Kinemetrics industry-specific platforms are changing the way leading organizations manage critical infrastructure today and what this means for the future.

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Modern Environmental Monitoring with Q8 and QME

Featuring: Arvind Parapuzha, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Environmental monitoring networks incorporate the acquisition of various categories of data sources. Simplifying the connection of multiple data sources to data acquisition equipment, while maintaining high fidelity, requires significant systems engineering to mitigate conditions that compromise the quality of acquired data.

The new Quanterra Mesh Extension (QME) for Q8 data acquisition systems allows for simplified integration of up to 16 one-sample-per-second environmental sensors, analog and digital. QME uses a modern IEEE wireless protocol, eliminating the management of multiple cables, ground loops, conduits, trenching, while adding freedom in sensors positioning. With the added mesh option for your high-fidelity stations, one can de-couple pressure information for pristine seismic signals.

In this informative webinar and Q&A, Arvind Parapuzha from Kinemetrics will describe how the QME improves environmental data quality, and lowers installation costs and time, without specialized software.  This live presentation is perfect for environmental monitoring system operators, or anyone who needs simple, reliable integration of monitoring equipment for temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, tilt, strain, external voltage, intrusion, and more.

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Highlighting the Most Important Factors in Earthquake Resilience and Response Solutions

Featuring: Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Over the past 55 years, Kinemetrics has led the development of seismic instrumentation and solutions that have enabled our customers and partners to advance earthquake science and engineering to the point we find it today.

This path of Advancement Through Innovation continues even today.

In this informative webinar and Q&A session, Brandon Parrott from Kinemetrics will review some of the most important recent events and findings related to earthquake response solutions, through the lens of the case studies and solutions presented in previous Kinemetrics Information Series Webinars.

More than just a simple year-end review, this presentation will concentrate on highlighting the critical factors driving state-of-the art earthquake solutions. This webinar is a must for any scientist, engineer, or emergency response professional involved in supporting earthquake resilience and response.

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Combining Seismology, Structural Engineering and Behavioral Science
to Enable Better Earthquake Emergency Response

Featuring Dr. Derek Skolnik & Brandon Parrott, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Earthquakes present unique challenges to impacted regions, organizations, and individuals, and catastrophic consequences can result from improper decision-making during these emergency events.

As such, earthquake response systems must be optimized through a combination of science and technology that provides a foundation to deliver the information and tools required by a multitude of stakeholders before, during, and after the event.

If the system serves the engineering community but does not meet the needs of the public or emergency responders, its value can be called into question. Earthquake response systems serve multiple stakeholders and must address the needs of each in a manner consistent with their expectations – detailed technical information for scientists and engineers, actionable information for emergency responders, and safety instructions for the general public.

Maximizing the effect of these systems also requires that they be integrated into the everyday systems and processes of those who rely on them.

In this session, Dr. Derek Skolnik and Brandon Parrott from Kinemetrics will discuss how leading organizations use the OasisPlus Earthquake Response Platform to ensure quick, safe, and effective emergency response. The presentation will center on real-world examples, and describe how best to meet the needs of the various groups – the public, technical professionals, emergency responders, and decision makers – affected by a given earthquake.

This informative webinar + Q&A will provide a new insight into how to maximize situational awareness and ensure effective earthquake response.

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Introducing QME – A New Standard for Seismographic and Environmental Monitoring
Data Acquisition

Featuring Dr. Mathias Franke, Kinemetrics, Inc.

Seismographic networks frequently incorporate the acquisition of related data sources. For example, the Global Seismographic Network combines data acquired from infrasound and meteorological sensors. The physical connection of multiple data sources to data acquisition equipment requires significant systems engineering to mitigate conditions that compromise the quality of acquired data

However, geophysical and environmental sensors are not physically co-located, resulting in wiring, which must be protected against physical damage.

The Q8 data acquisition system integrates additional data sources using low-power wireless transmission from multiple nodes via a secure, error-correcting protocol. This ensures precise timing in each node and allows nodes to “relay” traffic in a mesh topology.

Eliminating physical connections enables the placement of sensors for additional data (e.g., weather stations, magnetometers, etc.) in their optimal physical location away from local interference. Supporting up to 16 channels of information from up to 8 QME (Quanterra Mesh Extension) nodes at up to 1 sample/sec, the Q8 changes the standard for implementation of remote and distributed systems.

In this live webinar and Q&A session, Dr. Mathias Franke will describe the features of the QME, and provide understanding of how this technological advancement changes the standards for implementation of seismological and environmental sensors.

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CROSSNET Project: A New Vision for the Croatian Seismological Survey

Featuring Tomislav Fiket, Croatian Seismological Survey

The Croatian Seismological Survey faced numerous difficulties before the Zagreb and Petrinja earthquakes in 2020. The organization was understaffed, and had a meager number of stations – 17 in total – belonging to the national network. Among these, there were 8 additional strong motion stations. Additionally, the IT equipment was outdated, and the funding allocated to the survey was negligible. Under such circumstances, maintaining the national network was challenging, and upgrades to the network were impossible.

The situation began to change after the Zagreb earthquake in March 2020, but the real turning point came with the Petrinja earthquake in December of the same year. In the days following the earthquake, a donation of 20 sets of mobile stations, consisting of both broadband and strong motion instruments in each set, was received. Furthermore, the annual budget was increased, and the long-awaited opportunity to upgrade the national network of seismic stations was granted by including this project in the National Plan for Recovery and Resilience for 2021.

The CROSSNET project, an acronym for the Croatian Seismological Survey Network, is funded by EU funds and supported by the government, which covers VAT costs and other expenses. The total budget, including VAT, amounts to 13 million euros.

In this informative webinar and Q&A, special guest speaker Tomislav Fiket will explain the desired outcomes of the CROSSNET project and outline the envisioned evolution of the Croatian Seismological Survey.

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Quantix Q8 Storage and Telemetry

Featuring Dennis Pumphrey, Kinemetrics Inc.

The Qantix Q8 represents the pinnacle of Quanterra’s 30+ years’ undisputed leadership in designing the most advanced ultra-high performance data acquisition systems in our marketplace. Designed to support updating of existing Q330-based global and regional networks, the Q8 offers the same reliability, extraordinary temperature stability and data redundancy together with new advanced features.

In this session, returning speaker Dennis Pumphrey will educate us on the many storage and telemetry options provided by the Q8. He will discuss four different storage devices and Advanced Archival methods. In addition, several telemetry topics, including Hybrid mode, ORB server, SEEDLink, and QSCD will be detailed.

Dennis may even give us some insight on an important upcoming enhancement that you won’t want to miss!

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