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Healthy Buildings Is Your Workplace “Brain-Negative”? How to Optimize for the Brain Economy
For fifty years, the algorithm for prosperity was simple: Input education and data; output value. We called it the Knowledge Economy. The ...
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Sound Sound Level vs. Variability: Diagnosing Your Office's Acoustic Profile
An office's acoustic profile is determined by how loud each space is and how much that sound swings over time. Two rooms with the same average level can feel completely different ...
Sound Can My Employer Hear Me? Workplace Sound Monitoring & Privacy
If your employer has installed sound sensors around your office, you might be wondering what they'll be used for, and whether they affect your privacy. Both are understandable ...
Sound Sound Variability: Why a Room That Swings Loud-Quiet Hurts Focus
Sound variability describes how much a space’s sound level rises and falls over time. It's often the true culprit behind employee complaints about ...
Sound Tonal Noise: Why a Quiet Whine Is More Annoying Than a Loud Hum
You've probably worked near a sound you couldn't tune out: a faint whine from a ceiling vent, or the buzz of a light fixture nearby. That's tonal ...
Sound dBA vs dBC: Why the Average Decibel Hides the Problem
dBA and dBC are two ways of weighting the same decibel reading, and the difference comes down to how much low-frequency sound each one counts. Because dBA counts so little of it, ...
Sound Is a Sound Sensor a Microphone? How to Measure Sound Securely
Every sound sensor uses a microphone, because a microphone is the component that turns sound energy into an electrical signal that the sensor can measure. What determines whether ...
Sound Beyond Decibels: Why One Number Can't Describe a Building's Acoustics
If you’ve ever measured sound in your building, decibels are probably the metric you know best. A decibel reading measures how much sound energy is in a space, usually adjusted to ...
Sound Product Deep Dive: Everything You Need to Know About Kaiterra’s New Sound Sensor
Kaiterra just launched its first-ever sound sensor, bringing continuous sound monitoring to the same platform that already tracks air quality, ...
Sound Indoor Noise Monitoring: Guide for Facilities Teams
Indoor noise monitoring means continuously tracking sound levels throughout a building instead of checking them once with a handheld meter. For ...