Services
Field measurement
Before the firm places anyone, it measures. Its PSI-FIELD MONITOR has been licensed by the Turing Registry since 2004 for talent detection, as TR-01993.
- Registry licence
- TR-01993
- Licensed
- 3 March 2004
- Renewed
- 3 March 2026
- Registry contact
- G. G. Ashwood
The instrument
The PSI-FIELD MONITOR measures telepathic and precognitive fields on a client’s premises, so that the firm can place staff who cancel them out. It consists of the FM-7 field meters our technicians carry, the fixed sensors installed for standing arrangements, and the method by which their readings are taken, checked and reported. Instruments are calibrated each month at the firm’s bench in Secaucus.
The FM-7 reads on two channels. The psi channel gives the field itself, in standard field units. The ambient channel records the ordinary electromagnetic field of the equipment nearby, in microtesla, so that it can be subtracted; a room full of switched-on machines can otherwise pass for a talent next door. Its licence carries one condition, which the firm would have imposed on itself in any case: readings are shared only with the client who commissioned them. The licence was renewed in March 2026, and its record is public on the Turing Registry.The FM-7
A survey
A standard survey takes five working days. Technicians choose between six and twelve fixed points on each floor, usually where decisions are made or overheard, and take readings at each of them at nine o’clock every morning, so that the readings can be compared day by day.
| Day | Work |
|---|---|
| Monday | Points chosen and marked. First readings. Device sweep begins. |
| Tuesday to Thursday | Daily readings at 09:00. Additional readings during meetings, with the client’s agreement. |
| Friday | Final readings. Instruments returned to Secaucus for checking. |
| Following week | Report delivered by hand, with a recommendation for placement. |
Reading the readings
| Psi channel, standard field units | What it usually means |
|---|---|
| Below 2 | Quiet. No talent nearby, or one who is asleep. |
| 2 to 10 | Background, as on any busy street. |
| 10 to 25 | Elevated. A talent within about fifty metres, attending to something. |
| Above 25 | Active reading or forecasting. Placement recommended. |
Readings fall off with distance and with walls, and are lowest within an inertial’s radius.
Anomalous surveys
Very occasionally a survey produces ambient readings that decline steadily, day after day, at every point in a building at once, until the equipment in it reads as if it had been made decades earlier, and the building begins to look that way too. The firm records these as instrument faults unless the client asks it to do otherwise. Clients who notice such things on their own premises are asked to telephone the firm, and not to spend any coins that seem unusual.
Secaucus
Surveys are planned and instruments calibrated at Secaucus under Dr. Casimir Dunleavy, Director of Field Measurement. To arrange a survey, telephone +1 201 019 0119.