Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data

Randall Wetherington; Gregory Sheets; Tom Karnowski; Ryan Kerekes; Michael Vann; Michael Moore; Eva Freer

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47713-4_15

Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data

Randall Wetherington, Gregory Sheets, Tom Karnowski, Ryan Kerekes, Michael Vann, Michael Moore, Eva Freer

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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed and tested a novel system architecture for acquiring high fidelity high-speed data. The approach uses a consumer grade audio recording device that is normally associated with “garage band” recording of music. ORNL has coupled this low-cost data acquisition hardware with computing technology running open-source software. The main advantage of this approach is per-channel cost; an instrument grade data acquisition system typically costs between $800 to $2000 per channel compared to less than $50 per channel for these consumer grade components. Three systems, each featuring four channels, have been deployed for acquiring data from geophones and the electrical supply system that supports the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) and the Radiochemical Engineering Development Center (REDC) at ORNL. Each channel samples at 96 kHz at 24-bit resolution. The deployed systems operate continuously 24/7 and produce about 4 terabytes of data per month per system. This paper provides a technical overview of this approach, its implementation, and some preliminary results from qualification testing. This work was conducted in support of the Multi-Informatics for Nuclear Operations Scenarios (MINOS).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting and Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7 - Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020
Editors	Chad Walber, Patrick Walter, Steve Seidlitz
Publisher	Springer
Pages	175-183
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783030477127
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47713-4_15
State	Published - 2021
Event	38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020 - Houston, United States Duration: Feb 10 2020 → Feb 13 2020

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Name	Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
ISSN (Print)	2191-5644
ISSN (Electronic)	2191-5652

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Conference	38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Houston
Period	02/10/20 → 02/13/20

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This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Data acquisition
Informatics
Measurement

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Wetherington, R., Sheets, G., Karnowski, T., Kerekes, R., Vann, M., Moore, M., & Freer, E. (2021). Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data. In C. Walber, P. Walter, & S. Seidlitz (Eds.), Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting and Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7 - Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020 (pp. 175-183). (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47713-4_15

Wetherington, Randall ; Sheets, Gregory ; Karnowski, Tom et al. / Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data. Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting and Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7 - Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020. editor / Chad Walber ; Patrick Walter ; Steve Seidlitz. Springer, 2021. pp. 175-183 (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series).

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Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data. / Wetherington, Randall ; Sheets, Gregory ; Karnowski, Tom et al.
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Wetherington R , Sheets G , Karnowski T , Kerekes R, Vann M, Moore M et al. Using Low-Cost “Garage Band” Recording Technology for Acquiring High Resolution High-Speed Data. In Walber C, Walter P, Seidlitz S, editors, Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting and Dynamic Environments Testing, Volume 7 - Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020. Springer. 2021. p. 175-183. (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-47713-4_15

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