Data Center Noise Compliance

Prove your data center meets every noise limit — continuously.

Acoustic Sentry pairs an ISO 9613-2 Site Acoustics model of your facility with a live listening array — so you can show, at any moment and at every sensitive receptor, that your cooling plant, generators, and switchgear stay within community noise limits. The same array hears failing equipment before it fails.

A Cambridge Collaborative, Inc. product.

Data Center Monitoring

Compliant on paper.
Proven in real time.

Data centers face two acoustic pressures at once: staying under community noise limits, and keeping thousands of pieces of rotating equipment healthy. Acoustic Sentry handles both from the same array.

R2 · 54 dBA R3 · 57 dBA EXCEEDANCE · R1 +5 dBA LIVE NOISE MAP · SITE 04 6 MICS · STREAMING STATUS EXCEEDANCE PEAK RECEPTOR · R1 70.0 dBA SPL vs LIMIT LIMIT 65
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Map the site first with Site Acoustics

Before a station is ever placed, your site is modeled with Site Acoustics so the sound levels required at property lines and predetermined sensitive spots are known — and defensible.

Compliance baseline
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Monitor everywhere, continuously

Remote monitoring stations distributed across the site measure real levels around the clock and feed them — over Wi-Fi or wired connection — straight to the Mother Unit.

Distributed stations
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Predict the levels at the points that matter

The Mother Unit runs live measurements through the Site Acoustics map to predict, with high accuracy, the sound level at each predetermined sensitive location — even where you can't place a sensor. The resulting compliance map can be live-streamed to any interested party, from operations to the community.

Predictive · Live-streamed
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Learn what "normal" sounds like

Onboard machine learning builds a living baseline of the plant's normal acoustic behavior. When something drifts from normal, it flags the anomaly to the site administrator — and can predict what's likely happening.

Adaptive ML baseline
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Catch faults before failure

A library of equipment fault signatures — fan-bearing failure, and more — lets the system name the problem, not just detect it. Phase-DOA triangulation pinpoints the exact piece of equipment making the faulty noise, so you're alerted to the right rack before it fails.

Signature library · Phase DOA
Why Acoustic Sentry for Data Centers

Compliance and uptime from a single array.

Two of the hardest acoustic problems in a data center — proving you're under the limit and keeping thousands of rotating machines healthy — solved by the same distributed sensors.

Defensible at the property line

ISO 9613-2 prediction at every receptor — octave-band and low-frequency ready — so your compliance case stands up to the AHJ, the ordinance, and public comment.

Catch faults before failure

The same stations that prove compliance hear fan-bearing wear, chiller imbalance, and CRAH faults early — and Phase-DOA points to the exact rack.

Stream it to anyone

A live compliance map you can put in front of operations, management, regulators, or the community — no waiting on a quarterly measurement report.

Powered by Site Acoustics

The map that makes prediction possible.

Every Acoustic Sentry deployment is built on a Site Acoustics model of your facility. That model is what lets the Mother Unit translate a handful of live measurements into an accurate, defensible prediction of the sound level at any sensitive point on the map — the foundation of true compliance monitoring.

Get Started

Ready to hear what your site is telling you?

Book a meeting and we'll show you Acoustic Sentry monitoring a live environment — from compliance mapping to real-time fault detection and equipment localization.