Luas Noise Monitoring

CUSTOMER

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

PROJECT

Luas Cross City

Monitor the Impact. Protect the Community.

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The Customer

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) builds and maintains Dublin’s light rail transit system. Its most recent rail project — the Luas Cross City Project — extended Dublin’s Luas network by linking two existing lines and bringing tram service into new areas of the city.

The five-year project ran through multiple construction phases across central Dublin, including some of the busiest and loudest parts of the city, and required tight control of noise emissions to keep within planning limits.

Sonitus Systems — a Cognesense brand — was awarded the contract to monitor construction noise emissions across the Cross City works, using its dedicated environmental monitoring technology.

Challenges and Requirements

  • 24/7 real-time monitoring across a five-year project
  • Installation in some of the city’s busiest and loudest areas
  • Automated measurement and remote reporting
  • Up-to-the-minute noise limit checks and alerts
  • Minimum downtime during operation and maintenance

Our Partner

Sonitus Systems — a Cognesense brand — provides certified environmental noise monitoring for construction, infrastructure, and transport projects worldwide. At Luas Cross City, the deployment is built around the EM2030 Sound Level Monitor and the Sonitus Cloud platform — putting defensible, real-time noise data in front of TII and its contracting partners across every site in the city.

One partner. Every obligation. Legacy meets future.

Our Solution

TII chose to deploy Sonitus Systems’ EM2030 Sound Level Monitor to meet the demands of the Cross City project. The system delivers automated measurement and remote upload functions — every event captured and reported with no need for TII environmental staff to be present on site.

Eight key locations were selected by the TII team for construction noise monitoring and control. Each installation was fully specified by Sonitus Systems’ expert staff, and all works were managed jointly with installation partners on the ground.

24 Hour Measurement

The continuous measurement capability of the EM2030 allowed the TII team to fully evaluate baseline sound levels and gauge the impact of construction work. The automated online analysis system was tailored to each site, performing checks across all monitoring locations and alerting TII staff the moment a planning limit was at risk of being breached.

Stakeholder Management Online

All measurement locations are controlled through a user-friendly website — the Sonitus Cloud platform. This allowed TII staff to manage the entire project remotely. The cloud-based platform monitors the performance of all equipment to ensure each site is fully operational, meaning the project team receives a fully managed service and complete confidence in the data behind it.

The online analysis platform also lets users access sound level readings from anywhere — a critical feature on a project of this scale, where multiple contracting partners and staff needed access to the same information to manage construction works. The software processes all readings from each monitoring site and presents the information that is needed at a glance. Sound level emissions for user-defined time frames are calculated and compared to planning limits, and email and SMS alerts are sent to designated contacts when site levels exceed those limits. The online platform removes the need for detailed manual data analysis — saving time and personnel cost.

Customer Benefits

  • Cost-effective and reliable solution
  • Need for customer manpower removed from measurement and analysis tasks
  • Fully managed service ensures the performance of systems and the quality of measurements
  • Automated analysis provides the information needed for project managers at a glance
  • Multiple partners can access and view information from any location
  • Email and SMS alerts provide full project control without the need for the customer to spend time checking results
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More Information

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