Acoustic sensing for predictive maintenance at the CSG Research Retreat in Wädenswil

On 9 September 2025 I gave a talk at the Communication Systems Group (CSG) Research Retreat in Wädenswil. CSG was my academic home during my PhD and postdoc, and it is always a pleasure to return for these retreats and to reconnect with the colleagues and alumni I worked with there.

This year I chose to talk about our hydropower work, Hearing Problems: Exploring Acoustic-sensing for Predictive Maintenance: using distributed acoustic and vibration sensing to hear developing faults in hydropower machinery. See the slides (PDF), or read more in our paper From Noise to Knowledge.