Cloud-based CM system
03/11/2021
AVT Reliability Ltd has enhanced its cloud-based condition monitoring offering with the launch of Machine Sentry® 2.5.The latest developments deliver key enhancements to Android applications of the system, including integration with Bluetooth® low-energy (LE) sensors from any manufacturer, support for new advanced oil quality and vibration sensors and a simplified measurement import application programme interface (API).
In addition to the option of employing MSF-1, a Machine Sentry sensor, companies using the Machine Sentry Android application can now add any brand of sensor to the system, by simply copying the sensor definition to the Android device’s internal storage and opening it. Once loaded, the new sensor will be able to collect measurements in exactly the same way as MSF-1.
Machine Sentry 2.5 also enables enhanced oil quality and vibration monitoring capability with the addition of two new compatible sensors. The Tandelta oil quality sensor, connected via the Tandelta Oil Quality Display (OQD) Express, allows the condition of oil to be monitored in situ, without the need to extract a sample and send it to an oil laboratory. Wear or contamination is measured in real time to an accuracy of 0.001%.
The CTC WA102-1A transmitter, for AC312 and AC314 accelerators, has a higher maximum temperature range than MSF-1, with the potential to reach 125°C, and is capable of a higher sample rate, delivering a maximum F-Max value of just over 15 kHz.
The simplified measurement API has been developed to make it easy to import devices, channels and measurements from other systems to Machine Sentry. Data uploaded via the IPA is automatically added to the database.
Users have the additional option of direct support from the company’s in-house team of reliability experts, from installation onwards, providing a 360° service to their condition-based maintenance programmes.
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