Through the Italian national network of the Seismic Observatory of Structures (Osservatorio sismico delle strutture – OSS), the Department of Civil Protection (DPC) monitors the oscillations caused by earthquakes in 160 constructions of public property.

The OSS allows the damage to be estimated, occurred to the monitored structures because of an earthquake. Through the OSS, structures that are of strategic importance for the seismic emergency management can be kept under control. Moreover, original data can be supplied to the technical-scientific community, that allow to improve the understanding of the response of structures to earthquake. Finally, such data contribute a useful background for updating the technical regulations for constructions in seismic zones.

In 1996 Lunitek won a contract with Civil Defence and since then we supplied systems for 96 buildings and more than 1000 true force balance accelerometers.

Our share of the OSS (Seismic Observatory of Structure) network is now about 70% as can be seen in Figure 1.

Furthermore, every year, a maintenance contract guarantees that the systems are running correctly and we guarantee to repair malfunctioning systems in less than 3 days.

The OSS Lunitek monitoring systems are mostly wired systems, but we also have buildings running with wireless systems.