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A fruitful collaboration between ITSAK and the School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in the framework of the Horizon Project EReS.

Does real low-cost structural monitoring exist ?

Introducing the SeismoBug, a compact wireless triaxial accelerometer that can detect, record, store, or/and stream vibrational data globally. Designed and manufactured at the School of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The device features 20-bit resolution (<0.1 mg RMS noise), auto-triggering, battery backup, accurate NTP synchronization, and many other remote functionalities.

Recently, in a collaboration between the Institute of Engineering Seismology & Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK - Nikos Theodoulidis, Christos Karakostas and Kiriaki Konstantinidou) and the School of Civil Engineering, AUTh (Vassilis Papanikolaou) through the REDACt project, 31 SeismoBug devices were deployed across school buildings in Thessaloniki to monitor urban seismic activity in real-time.

Currently, a new partnership has been initiated, under the EReS project. Our current mission involves installing 20 of the latest SeismoBug v3.0 devices in school buildings in Alexandroupoli and Samos, in the Cross-Border area of Greece-Turkiye. These devices will continuously capture both seismic activity and the structural response of representative school buildings to various levels of ground motion.

Seismobug v3.0