Assessment of Landslides using Acoustic Real-time Monitoring Systems (ALARMS) “Annually, landslides result in thousands of deaths world-wide and many thousands of survivors being made homeless. The havoc they wreak on basic services such as water supply and transport costs billions of pounds to repair. There is a pressing need for an affordable and robust landslide early warning system in order to evacuate vulnerable people and to protect critical infrastructure. Geotechnical engineers at Loughborough have developed a device to gauge the stability of slopes with a sensor that picks up the high frequency sounds that come from soil particles moving underground. It represents a step change both in terms of technical performance and manufacturing cost.” This project won the 2010 Enterprise Awards from Loughborough University. Read more at
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/business/enterprise-awards/commercialisation/alarms.html