SoundPLAN Sales and Support
SoundPLAN is a complete software package offering a full spectrum of noise pollution evaluation modules, with quick and accurate calculation and impressive graphics. Comprehensive studies involving any size areas and multiple sources can be completed efficiently and cost effectively using this modelling software.
SoundPLANnoise offers you the necessary tools and libraries that you need to execute your projects in all areas of application. Whether it's a noise study for a building development plan, expert noise reports at the workplace or noise remediation: with its powerful and quality-assured calculation kernel, SoundPLANnoise is the professional solution for your tasks.
With SoundPLANnoise, it is easy to create quick noise simulations, a variety of tabular outputs and informative noise maps. It also supports the assessment of different evaluation methods.
SoundPLANnoise understands itself as an advanced planning tool, not as a purely academic exercise, thus the program has a strong focus on what is needed to pinpoint where the problem is with noise and suggest a path to fix the problems.
With a maintenance contract for SoundPLANnoise, you are always up to date. Our program is constantly being developed and adapted to the requirements of our customers. In addition, new guidelines and standards are being incorporated into the current version and are available free of charge via updates. For technical and content-related questions, our hotline team is happy to help you quickly, easily and personally by phone or e-mail.
SoundPLANnoise is available in 2 variants as the full version of SoundPLANnoise and as the entry package SoundPLANessential. Both programs share the same calculation engine, data from the single scenario program SoundPLANessential can be read and processed by the multi scenario full version.
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Experience you can count on
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Vibrocomp is the official trading partner for SoundPLAN GmbH in Azerbaijan, the Arabic countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.
VIBROCOMP International has an experience of over 20 years of SoundPLAN sales and after sales support! Our goal is to have satisfied customers who can actively use SoundPLAN, therefore VIBROCOMP gives a FREE training day of SoundPLAN when buying new package or modules!
For more Information about SoundPLAN and to download a DEMO CD please visit the webpage www.soundplan.de or request it directly from Vibrocomp.
The Market Leader in Noise Mapping Software
Design Concepts behind SoundPLAN
SoundPLAN is not just another noise model. It is a fully integrated noise planning software suite that by design is more flexible, more versatile and faster than others. The quality of the software and the output it produces continues to make SoundPLAN the undisputed market leader with by far the biggest market share worldwide. In this section you can read some of the concepts that earned SoundPLAN this leading market position.
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One software for many areas of application
SoundPLANnoise includes everything from modeling and calculation, to tabular and graphic documentation in various levels of detail to produce informative plans for road and rail noise, commercial and leisure noise, aircraft noise, and ‘Hallin’ (sound propagation indoors).
User-friendly analysis and optimization tools
In addition, SoundPLANnoise offers extensive tools - first and foremost among them is the integrated spreadsheet optimized for your problems. Further tools offer, for example, the optimization of noise protection structures, noise remediation, noise allocation, and noise protection concepts for industrial plants as well as various evaluations (such as the number of affected inhabitants) or the best cost-benefit ratio.
Flexible object definition with varying properties
A special feature of the two calculation modes "road" and "rail" is that even if any of the properties is modified along the course of the road or the railway (e.g. change of speed or bridge addition), there is no need to generate different road or railway segments.
Usage of extensive system libraries
As a SoundPLANnoise user, you have access to extensive system libraries for emission spectra, sound attenuation and absorption, which are regularly updated.
Standardized layouts
SoundPLANnoise, our acoustics software supports your personal project presentation with pre-defined layouts, table and graphic templates, which you can adapt to your own styles.
High computing power for effective work
Our high-performance computing core is our guarantee for a high computing power. If the computing power still should not be sufficient, for example, in the case of large computing areas or very large numbers of sources, it is simple to use SoundPLAN's distributed computing feature: This shares the computing jobs amongst many computers on your network via automated workflows: the results are then automatically merged again. The size of the computing cluster does not matter. Whether you are using five or five hundred computers: You only need one license for this.
The current version 8.2 of SoundPLANnoise is available with many new features:
- For a directivity pattern assigned to a line source, there is a new option "Directivity follows the line source". Thus, e.g. race tracks can be modeled very easily as it is no longer necessary to split sources into multiple parts where the direction changes .
- For interior calculations, a variant concept is now available to define, calculate and compare different room acoustic plans in a simple and user-friendly way.
- All surfaces and sources in an industrial hall/room can now be displayed color-coded both in the editor in the GeoDB and in the plan display in the graphic. This allows a quick graphical control of the assigned absorption, sound insulation or emission spectra.
- Objects in an industrial hall/room can now be combined into groups if desired. This allows the user to structure them very simply and clearly.
- The BA Outside module has been completely revised. In addition, the current versions of the guidelines DIN 4109:2016/2018 and DIN EN ISO 12354-3:2017, including flanking transmission, have now also been implemented.
- For the propagation calculation, some new international guidelines have been implemented and, as always, are available to you free of charge in the regular updates.
- New tabular wall/wall documentation gives among other things an overview of the wall view area and the calculated wall volume or/and as a sum for each individual noise protection structure.
- The interface to d&b audiotechnik's ArrayCalc has been updated to version 10.10.1. Thus, loudspeakers of the A and SL series can also be modeled now.
All changes, innovations and improvements are described in detail in the update letter for version 8.2. We wish you a lot of fun with the numerous new functions and are looking forward to your feedback as always.
SoundPLAN Essential is the single document application for environmental noise planning of roads, railways and industrial facilities. Create noise contour maps in cities and open environment from basic 3D geometry and some traffic information or sound power data. It was conceived with the occasional user in mind who may not have in-depth knowledge of acoustics and want results in the smallest amount of time with the maximum amount of professionalism. It is a compact version of SoundPLAN, based on its calculation core and having its power, fast data processing and striking graphics. It is so easy to use, even engineers without special training for noise control will have no trouble using it. And, as it includes SoundPLAN´s noise contour map capabilities, presentations are easy to create and easy to understand. SoundPLAN essential allows standard cases to be processed quickly, efficiently and inexpensively.
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SoundPLANessential 5.1
...with adaptation to EN ISO 12354-3:2017 (BA Outside)...
SoundPLANessential 5.1 is an update which is free of charge for SoundPLANessential 5.0 customers. The reason for this update is on the one hand the compatibility with current NoizCalc projects (d&b audiotechnik) and on the other hand the adaption of BA Outside to the new versions of the standard EN ISO 12354-3:2017. Moreover, we implemented smaller customer wishes.
SoundPLANessential 5.0 already included new features and improvements:
The previous interface to Google Earth was replaced by a convenient map interface. This allows you to easily transfer background maps from Google Maps as well as from OpenStreetMap into SoundPLANessential. In addition, the elevation data provided by Google Maps can be imported and used as a basis for your terrain model. For data import you can use a new, additional interface to OpenStreetMap. This allows you to import your data model almost anywhere in the world with little effort. For industrial noise, a convenient level calculator has been implemented, with which operating times and the emission of moving sound sources can be taken into account very easily.
The available dispersion calculation methods were supplemented by CNOSSOS-EU (road, rail and industrial noise), including the German and Austrian adaptations.
Noise Models for:
- Road, Railroads, Parking lots
- Industrial point, line and area sources
- Noise Protection Walls and Berms
- Simulates the noise on top of continuously triangulated Digital Ground Model (DGM)
Features Include:
- Model any size project
- DXF and GIS import, or digitize on bitmaps
- Easy presentation of scenario with or without a noise protection barrier
- Calculations consider the Digital Ground Model
- Local noise standards provided
- Easy to use graphical data interface
- Striking grid noise and contour maps
Result Tables and Graphics:
The emission level calculations and the results of the noise propagation are presented in tabular form in predefined tables. Additional text can be added for map descriptions and you can customize the layout for each object. Plus:
- Tabular documentation of source properties
- Documentation of source contribution levels
- Level tables show the noise level for all floors and time slices
- Limit contour lines option
SoundPLANnoise and SoundPLANessential
The right acoustics software for every requirement
Whether you are faced with writing noise reports in connection with construction projects, a range of tasks in the field of environmental acoustics or the assessment and optimization of an open-plan office: With SoundPLAN you are always good to go.
SoundPLANessential, as a cost-effective option for standard noise reports in environmental acoustics, offers you the basis for fast and high-quality results - even if your main focus is not on noise protection.
If your field of activity changes and SoundPLANessential is no longer sufficient for your requirements, you can easily upgrade to the SoundPLANnoise package that suits you best at any time.
SoundPLANnoise is equally suitable for all facets of noise immission control, noise at the workplace or room acoustics, and small projects or nationwide noise mapping. Thanks to the flexible combination of modules, which allows you to only buy what you really need, you will find the perfect personal software package. Later expansions are possible at any time. The rental option for the whole software or for individual modules allows for further flexibility.
Comparison of SoundPLANnoise and SoundPLANessential
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Calculation of road, railway, industry noise and noise from parking lots |
YES | YES |
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Indoor noise calculations |
YES | NO |
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Calculation of room acoustic parameters |
YES | NO |
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Configuration of facade sound reduction |
YES | YES |
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Aircraft noise calculations |
YES | NO |
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Calculation of a digital ground model (DGM) |
YES | YES |
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Automated optimization of noise protection walls and berms |
YES | NO |
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Use of digital background maps for input and output |
YES | YES |
| Connection to Google Maps and OpenStreetMap | YES | YES |
| Elevations from Google Maps | YES | YES |
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Interface to ASCII, DXF and Shape files for the model data import |
YES | YES |
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Import of object properties (e.g. building height) |
YES | NO |
| Import of OpenStreetMap data | YES | YES |
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Import of CityGML |
YES | NO |
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Connection to WMS Server |
YES | NO |
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Intelligent filters for imported elevation data |
YES | YES |
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Two variants for the calculation with and without noise protection |
YES | YES |
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Free variants |
YES | NO |
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Distribution of the geometry data to any number of files and in any desired sorting (e.g. for efficiently editing the currently needed data in big investigation areas) |
YES | NO |
| Simple tools to adjust the geometry data (e.g. duplicate, parallel object, place objects to a digital ground model) | YES | YES |
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Efficient and high-level tools to modify selected geometry data (e.g. combining areas, creating embankments) |
YES | NO |
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Checking and changing the object properties of all entered objects in a clearly organized table |
YES | NO |
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Enhanced data management for huge projects (noise mapping) |
YES | NO |
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Industrial buildings with automatically generated sources based on the noise levels inside |
YES | NO |
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Calculations of single frequencies, octave and third octave bands |
YES | YES |
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Library for source emission spectra |
YES | YES |
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Library for transmission and absorption |
YES | NO |
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Time history for the sources hour by hour |
YES | (YES) |
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2D, 2D rotational and 3D directivity |
YES | NO |
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High-performance calculation core with dynamic search algorithms |
YES | YES |
| Calculations multi-threadedfor multi core CPU | YES | YES |
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Distributed computing - calculation with multiple PCs in a network |
YES | NO |
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User-defined calculation job management (unattended processing of several calculation jobs) |
YES | NO |
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Single receiver calculations |
YES | YES |
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Grid noise map calculations |
YES | YES |
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Facade noise map calculations |
YES | NO |
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Dynamic triangulated meshed noise map |
YES | NO |
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Cross-sectional noise map |
YES | NO |
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Integrated spreadsheet |
YES | NO |
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Documentation of the noise sources in tabular format |
YES | YES |
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Documentation of the results in tabular format |
YES | YES |
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Optimization of noise reduction concepts for industrial sources |
YES | NO |
| Single point map with level tables and contour maps | YES | YES |
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Noise contour maps with free selection of scales, colors etc. |
YES | YES |
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User-defined configuration of the drawing properties of objects (buildings, roads, ...) for the printout |
YES | YES |
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Arithmetic with noise maps (e.g. difference, energetic addition) |
YES | NO |
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Cartographical enhancements for the graphics (own patterns, multiple plots on a sheet, ...) |
YES | NO |
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Map sections and overview map |
YES | NO |
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3D solid view of the model data while generating the model |
YES | YES |
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3D view overlaid with results, animated noise maps |
YES | NO |
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Modular software structure - only buy the needed modules |
YES | NO |
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Individually executable programs (e.g. process calculations and data modelling at the same time) |
YES | NO |
With our demo versions, you can get a first impression of which of our software products is suitable for your requirements.
Design Concepts behind SoundPLAN
SoundPLAN is not just another noise model. It is a fully integrated noise planning software suite that by design is more flexible, more versatile and faster than others. The quality of the software and the output it produces continues to make SoundPLAN the undisputed market leader with by far the biggest market share worldwide. In this section you can read some of the concepts that earned SoundPLAN this leading market position.
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One software for many areas of application
SoundPLANnoise includes everything from modeling and calculation, to tabular and graphic documentation in various levels of detail to produce informative plans for road and rail noise, commercial and leisure noise, aircraft noise, and ‘Hallin’ (sound propagation indoors).
User-friendly analysis and optimization tools
In addition, SoundPLANnoise offers extensive tools - first and foremost among them is the integrated spreadsheet optimized for your problems. Further tools offer, for example, the optimization of noise protection structures, noise remediation, noise allocation, and noise protection concepts for industrial plants as well as various evaluations (such as the number of affected inhabitants) or the best cost-benefit ratio.
Flexible object definition with varying properties
A special feature of the two calculation modes "road" and "rail" is that even if any of the properties is modified along the course of the road or the railway (e.g. change of speed or bridge addition), there is no need to generate different road or railway segments.
Usage of extensive system libraries
As a SoundPLANnoise user, you have access to extensive system libraries for emission spectra, sound attenuation and absorption, which are regularly updated.
Standardized layouts
SoundPLANnoise, our acoustics software supports your personal project presentation with pre-defined layouts, table and graphic templates, which you can adapt to your own styles.
High computing power for effective work
Our high-performance computing core is our guarantee for a high computing power. If the computing power still should not be sufficient, for example, in the case of large computing areas or very large numbers of sources, it is simple to use SoundPLAN's distributed computing feature: This shares the computing jobs amongst many computers on your network via automated workflows: the results are then automatically merged again. The size of the computing cluster does not matter. Whether you are using five or five hundred computers: You only need one license for this.
The current version 8.2 of SoundPLANnoise is available with many new features:
- For a directivity pattern assigned to a line source, there is a new option "Directivity follows the line source". Thus, e.g. race tracks can be modeled very easily as it is no longer necessary to split sources into multiple parts where the direction changes .
- For interior calculations, a variant concept is now available to define, calculate and compare different room acoustic plans in a simple and user-friendly way.
- All surfaces and sources in an industrial hall/room can now be displayed color-coded both in the editor in the GeoDB and in the plan display in the graphic. This allows a quick graphical control of the assigned absorption, sound insulation or emission spectra.
- Objects in an industrial hall/room can now be combined into groups if desired. This allows the user to structure them very simply and clearly.
- The BA Outside module has been completely revised. In addition, the current versions of the guidelines DIN 4109:2016/2018 and DIN EN ISO 12354-3:2017, including flanking transmission, have now also been implemented.
- For the propagation calculation, some new international guidelines have been implemented and, as always, are available to you free of charge in the regular updates.
- New tabular wall/wall documentation gives among other things an overview of the wall view area and the calculated wall volume or/and as a sum for each individual noise protection structure.
- The interface to d&b audiotechnik's ArrayCalc has been updated to version 10.10.1. Thus, loudspeakers of the A and SL series can also be modeled now.
All changes, innovations and improvements are described in detail in the update letter for version 8.2. We wish you a lot of fun with the numerous new functions and are looking forward to your feedback as always.
