Collecting noise data is no longer the challenge for most industrial operations. What remains is producing a compliance report that clearly shows what sounds the operation was responsible for.
Advitech has launched Advitech Digital, a new software platform giving users direct access to the company’s engineering and environmental expertise through a browser–based analysis tool. The first module, Virtual Acoustician, enables acoustic analysis and compliance reporting on demand.
From noise data to defensible compliance
Noise monitoring typically follows one of two models: attended monitoring by a qualified acoustician, or continuous unattended hardware recording noise levels around the clock. Both approaches reliably capture data. Neither, on its own, resolves the harder question of attribution.
On any given night, measured noise levels reflect a mix of sources: site equipment, insects, wind, weather and neighbouring activity. Monitoring systems record all of it. For compliance, however, what matters is not simply what sounds were present, but which sources materially influenced the measured result and whether those sources were under the operator’s control.
Without that distinction, assessments carry risk. Operations may respond conservatively to noise they did not generate or produce reports that struggle to withstand regulatory scrutiny when attribution is challenged.
Advitech Digital’s Virtual Acoustician addresses this gap by giving teams using continuous monitoring the tools to interrogate their data, isolate relevant sources and produce clearer, more defensible compliance assessments, with less reliance on external specialists. The Pro variant extends this capability by using machine learning to automate source identification and estimate each source’s contribution to the total noise level, enabling rapid separation of site noise from background sound beyond operational control.
How Virtual Acoustician works
Virtual Acoustician is a browser-based analysis tool. There is nothing to install. Users log in via Advitech Digital, access their monitoring data and time-synchronised audio recordings in a unified workspace, and can listen to, annotate, and filter data by noise source.
Built-in calculations evaluate site noise contributions and automatically test for tonality and low frequency noise as required under the NSW Noise Policy for Industry. Compliance reports are generated and exported as PDFs on demand.
The platform can connect to third-party monitoring devices, giving organisations flexibility in how they deploy it alongside existing site infrastructure.
Analysis built on two decades of real-world data
The intelligence behind the platform is, Advitech’s proprietary AI engine, trained on 20 years of real-world acoustic monitoring data gathered across Australian mining and industrial sites. That dataset cannot be quickly replicated. It represents two decades of site-specific conditions, source combinations, and operational variability unique to the Australian resources sector, and it is what separates this model from other classifiers trained on generic or limited datasets.
Advitech Lead Scientist Clayton Sparke explains that the underlying AI engine was designed to go beyond sound detection and into sound attribution.
“Most acoustic AI systems can tell you what sounds were present. our solution goes further, it estimates how many decibels each source contributed to the total sound level. That distinction matters enormously in an investigation and compliance context, because knowing a sound existed is not the same as knowing whether it influenced the result,” said Clayton.
Advitech’s analysts work alongside the platform, ensuring seamless support for organisations that may still seek deeper investigation, bespoke reporting, or specialist input. Virtual Acoustician is the first module. The platform is built to grow.
Advitech CEO Paul Reynolds says the launch marks a new chapter in how Advitech’s specialist knowledge reaches the people who need it.
“Advitech Digital extends what our specialists do, making that expertise available continuously rather than only when someone can attend a site or respond to a call. The knowledge and experience have always been there. What this platform does is remove the gap between when our clients need insight and when they can access it. Virtual Acoustician is the first step. There is a great deal more we intend to build,” said Paul.
Talk to Advitech about smarter acoustic compliance reporting.
Advitech Digital is currently live across active mining operations in Australia, working with a small group of early adopters as the platform continues to develop. Organisations operating in noise-sensitive environments are invited to get in touch.
