What is Sorama Portal?
The Sorama Portal is a web-based platform for in-depth acoustic analysis and reporting. It helps users turn acoustic measurements into clear visual outputs and structured results, reducing the barrier of acoustic expertise when investigating noise-related problems.
Instead of treating measurements as isolated moments, the Portal enables detailed post-processing and comparison of recorded sessions. This makes it possible to further investigate where sound originates, how it behaves, and what changes between conditions, whether the goal is engineering analysis or building diagnostics.
For industrial teams, the Sorama Portal supports reporting, so that measurements and inspection findings can be shared consistently within your team.
Visualize acoustic data
Clear visual outputs help interpret sound measurements without deep acoustic expertise.
Post-processing
Revisit sessions, compare measurements, and investigate results in high detail across time and frequency.
Report the outcome
Turn measurements and inspection outcomes into structured reports that are easy to share and review.
Built for real workflows
Support both exploratory analysis and inspection-driven documentation.
How does Sorama Portal work?
The Sorama Portal allows users to create and review sound measurements, visualize sound sources, and analyze results in time and frequency views. With post processing, measurements can be investigated in more detail, compared across sessions, and prepared for reporting.
Depending on distance and analysis goals, the Sorama Portal supports both surface level studies and far field localization, providing flexible insight for different engineering scenarios. It also supports psychoacoustic analysis, adding perception based views that help interpret how sound is experienced alongside physical metrics.
For inspection workflows such as leak, mechanical, and partial discharge inspections, the Portal supports organizing outcomes and generating reports that clearly describe what was measured, where it was measured, and what was observed.
Where it adds value?
Use case
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Limitations
Sorama Portal depends on the quality of measurements and the capabilities of the connected device.
The Portal supports analysis and reporting, but results remain dependent on how measurements were captured, how long they are, and the acoustic conditions in which the measurement took place. The Portal structures and clarifies the workflow, but it does not add measurement capabilities beyond what the hardware supports.
The Sorama Portal is not:
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A generic data analytics platform unrelated to acoustic measurements.
Frequently Asked Questions
What type of analysis can the Sorama Portal perform?
Sorama Portal supports post‑processing analysis of acoustic measurements using multiple views. This includes time analysis, spectrum analysis, and spectrogram analysis, as well as Far‑Field (beamforming) sound imaging, Near‑Field (PNAH) sound imaging, and psychoacoustic analysis. These tools help users interpret measurements visually, investigate sound sources in detail.
What is Far‑Field analysis?
Far‑Field analysis (also referred to as beamforming sound imaging) visualizes the locations of sound sources using a colored sound map. It is comparable to a thermal camera: instead of showing temperature, the Far‑Field panel shows sound intensity. This helps identify where dominant sources are located in the measured scene and how strongly they contribute.
What is Near‑Field analysis?
Near‑Field analysis in Sorama Portal uses PNAH (Planar Near Field Acoustic Holography) to visualize the dynamic behavior of sound close to the source. The Near‑Field sound image can display acoustic pressure, acoustic velocity, or acoustic intensity.
What is Psychoacoustics?
Psychoacoustics is the study of how humans perceive sound. It looks at how physical sound (pressure variations traveling through air) is processed by the ear and then interpreted by the brain, resulting in perceptual experiences such as loudness and pitch.
In many product and machinery contexts, traditional physical measures (like overall sound pressure level) do not fully explain why two sounds with similar levels can feel very different in perceived quality or annoyance. Psychoacoustics addresses this gap by focusing on perceptual characteristics of sound and by using psychoacoustic metrics to quantify how sound is likely experienced. Common metrics include loudness, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength, and tonality. This helps teams evaluate and improve perceived sound quality, even when reducing overall sound level is difficult or not the main goal.