AKCP Battery Monitoring for Géoazur - Case Study

Géoazur  is a team of geophysicists, geologists and astronomers. With more than 100 permanent staff they specialize in the observation and monitoring of geophysical and astronomical activities.Géoazur operates a network of seismological monitoring stations that are interconnected with a Tsunami early warning system. These monitoring stations are powered by solar and battery power systems. AKCP over the years have provided monitoring solutions for several of these sites.Rejuvenation work of the RISVAL RESIF Isola Station

On August 27, 2018, the rejuvenation of the industrial cabinets of the RESIF ISO wideband station began, located in the Maginot blockhouse at Fort du Longon in Isola. This station was built in 2004 and is integrated into the CENALT tsunami warning network.

This upgrade is part of the equipment modernization plan as part of the Interreg-Alcotra RISVAL project. In this phase of works the modernization of the equipment cabinets which was conducted by the Seismological Observatory of Géoazur on its own specifications.

This work was materialized for this important step by:

• Removal of old equipment boxes and plastic battery boxes.
• Installation of a waterproof industrial cabinet intended for housing scientific and monitoring equipment.
• Installation of a waterproof industrial cabinet to accommodate the station’s batteries.
• Replacement of all electrical equipment with the addition of automatic reclosers.
• Installation of two industrial programmable controllers (PLC) SensorProbe SP2 and MOXA E-4200.