SUMOMETRICS

About Us

Sumometrics Industries Inc. was established in 2011 by its founding Chairman and President, Mr. Richard Yap Lim. The company is regarded as one of the pioneer-providers of earthquake recording instruments in the industry. In its first two years of operations, the company resorted to educating the industry on the usefulness of its seismic monitoring system through business presentations and product demonstrations to building owners, major property developers, building management associations, and building managers, and participation in trade shows.

Since most of the buildings in the country are compliant with the National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) in accordance with the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards, Mr. Lim decided to partner with American company Refraction Technology, also known as “Reftek”.

Reftek System Inc, now a subsidiary of Xeos Technology of Canada , has been in the seismic and structural monitoring business for the past 40 years. Reftek is one of the suppliers of the United States Advanced National Seismic Systems (ANSS), which is under the United States Geological Survey.

The Canadian American company’s extensive knowledge and experience in monitoring structures like building, dams, bridges, ground motion, volcanoes, and other structures were the factors considered by Mr. Lim to introduce Reftek’s products in the Philippine market. Sumometrics aims to provide useful data recorded by its equipment installed on the top, in the middle, and in the basement floors of a building during an earthquake.

The RTP alert software after an earthquake can produce critical information, such as Phivolcs Earthquake Intensity Scale (PEIS), Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) Scale, Japan Meteorological Agency ( JMA ), Peak Ground Acceleration, Peak Ground Velocity, and Peak ground Displacement, and etc., to help building management to implement their own earthquake protocol whether to evacuate or not.

The system is comparative to installing a ‘black box’ inside the building to record all movements and behaviors of the structure during an earthquake. A separate software named the Compass Software which is sold separately can provide In-depth analyses of the data recorded, such as the Maximum Acceleration, Spectral Intensity, Predominant Period, Mean Period, 2PI*Vmax/ Amax, Maximum Velocity, Maximum Displacement, Cum Abs Velocity, Arias Intensity, Arias Duration (5-75), Arias Duration (5-95), JMA intensity, MMI scale, and PEIS are broken down to three axis movement: vertical, longitudinal, and traverse.

All these information can be seen as raw files waveform or numerical files. These are the important critical results that can be utilized by structural engineers using structural engineering software.

To date, Sumometrics has already installed seismic accelerograph system in almost all types of building structures, from single to multiple buildings sharing a common podium or basement, casinos, banks, residential buildings, and mixed use towers all over the Philippines.

Clients can attest to Sumometrics’ superior standards of installation and superb after sales maintenance service to its equipment installed.

The company was even the first to introduce a monitoring station in administration office, or the CCTV room, wherein the client can view the performance of the three accelerographs located at different levels of the building. From this central monitoring station, one can extract and print data from the three accelerographs.

Sumometrics is, likewise, the first company to introduce device tagging. It tags its conduit pipes, NEMA enclosures, pull boxes, and accelerograph boxes as its standards of superior installation, and so their seismic lines and equipment cannot be mistaken by other maintenance crew from other utility providers. The company strictly implements “no exposed wires” regulations to avoid cutting or tampering of the system.

All installations come with an as-built plan duly certified and signed by a Professional Electronics Communication Engineer (PECE). The plan contains the location and orientation of the accelerograph with column reference of which was duly certified by either the client’s structural engineer on record or the Company’s structural engineer consultant.

As per the 2015 Guidelines on Earthquake Recording Equipment or better known as accelerograph recorder, An accelerograph recorder device should have its own recorder both for ambient and triggered seismic recorder, accelerometer sensor, internal battery, LCD panel to see state of health.