Ambient Noise Monitoring and HSE Risk Mitigation by the Deployment of IoT Technology on Land Seismic Crews

The authors describe how in recent onshore nodal seismic data acquisition surveys IoT technology has been used to efficiently provide both cable-free Ambient Noise Monitoring widely sampled across the recording spread, to enable informed decision making regarding noise levels affecting recording operations, and the mitigation of safety risk to remote workers, especially in hazardous terrain, by providing real time status monitoring and an emergency SOS capability where traditional communications are limited or impaired.