Energy-harvesting wireless sensor platform
18/04/2024
Prylada, a company providing end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for intelligent asset monitoring, has launched a new product for wireless condition monitoring with advanced low-power capabilities.
The Prylada Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Platform (or simply WASP) is designed to transfer data from industrial critical assets to a remote-control panel for its analysis and visualisation, using the sub-1 GHz channel.
According to Dzmitry Tsybulka, Chair of Prylada: “The new sensor platform is expected to change the way industrial asset monitoring is organised in general. The main advantage of the platform is that it lets almost any sensor work truly wirelessly. In turn, wireless data collection from your critical assets will greatly simplify the monitoring process, reduce the number of cables in your facilities and ensure real-time alarm management in case of emergency.”
The platform can be equally applied as a stand-alone solution or part of the Prylada ecosystem. The Prylada WASP works through the platform connecting to critical assets and reading data from them. The read data is wirelessly transferred to a gateway for aggregation and primary processing and the gateway then sends the received data to a cloud-based or on-premises server. All the collected data is visualised on customised web or mobile app dashboards.
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Energy harvesting is one of the key features of the Prylada WASP, especially for its application in production facilities. This feature means that the platform consumes very little power and can work from different ambient energy sources, such as vibration, solar energy or heating.
Manufacturers use remote monitoring of equipment conditions to detect and eliminate potential problems with their industrial machines ahead of time. The lack of a proper monitoring system means that manufacturers waste time on routine maintenance, which is sometimes redundant and only results in extra costs. However, permanent condition monitoring in production facilities requires constant operation of sensors and other devices included in the monitoring network. In such circumstances, energysaving practices play a vital role in reducing total production and maintenance costs. The energy-harvesting feature allows the Prylada WASP to maximise the battery lifetime and ensure uninterrupted monitoring with low power consumption.
