Predictive Maintenance

Know a machine is failing weeks before it stops. Wireless sensors track vibration, ultrasound, and temperature on your motors, pumps, and compressors, and the readings land in the same platform as your SCADA and control data.

Machines warn you. Usually nobody is listening.

Long before a machine stops turning, it shakes differently, runs hotter, and gets louder in frequencies people cannot hear. The sensor watches all three continuously, and Control Seat names the fault instead of just telling you a number moved.

  • Finds real faults: bearing wear, imbalance, misalignment, looseness, and cavitation.
  • Sees the detail: 3-axis vibration with full spectrum data, not just a single summary number.
  • Hears it early: ultrasound catches bearing and lubrication problems first, and temperature confirms what is actually running hot.
VIBRATION SPECTRUMEvery part of a machine shakes at its own rate.HOW HARD IT SHAKESlowhigh frequencyBearing wearNormal rangeTodayAbove normal

Not another dashboard to check.

The sensors form their own wireless network and report through a gateway. Readings arrive as ordinary tags, right next to your process data, so you can see that vibration climbed and see what the machine was running at the time.

  • One login: machine health lives beside your process data, not in a separate portal.
  • No wiring: sensors mesh together and reach up to 2 miles outdoors, 1,000 ft indoors.
  • Battery: up to five years, field replaceable with a spanner wrench.
Pump 1Motor 3Fan 2CompressorGatewayMQTTControl Seat tags

The sensor we put on machines.

We use the NCD Gen4 sensor because it reports full spectrum data instead of a single number, runs up to five years on a battery, and has no proprietary cloud in the middle. We mount it, map its tags, and set the baselines with your team.

Wireless condition monitoring sensor

Gen4 Vibration, Ultrasound & Temperature

A sealed puck that magnets onto the housing and reports vibration, ultrasound, temperature, RPM, and runtime.

Configured by Control SeatMesh commissioning and tag mapping

We pair each sensor, map its readings into your workspace as tags, record a healthy baseline, and set alarm levels with the people who run the equipment.

Sensor specification

Measurements
3-axis vibration · ultrasound · temperature · RPM · asset runtime
Vibration range
±16 g or ±64 g full scale · configurable 200 Hz to 25.6 kHz sample rate
Vibration output
Acceleration · velocity · displacement · peak frequency · time-domain data for FFT
Ultrasound
30 dBuV to 120 dBuV · sample rate up to 82 kHz
Time-domain capture
Up to 8,100 samples per axis
Wireless
900 MHz / 868 MHz self-healing mesh · up to 2 miles line of sight, 1,000 ft indoors
Battery
Hybrid D-cell lithium and supercapacitor · up to 5 years · field replaceable
Environmental
IP67 · aluminum housing · 84 mm x 50 mm
Mounting
Magnetic or 1/4 in. 28 UNF stud
On board
Machine learning for anomaly detection and power management · OTA firmware and config

Included with every deployment

  • Gen4 wireless vibration, ultrasound, and temperature sensor
  • Magnetic mount and 1/4 in. 28 UNF stud adapter
  • Hybrid D-cell lithium battery and supercapacitor, installed
  • Mesh network commissioning onto your gateway
  • Tag mapping into your Control Seat workspace
  • Baseline capture and alarm thresholds set with your team

Range figures are for 900 MHz and 868 MHz mesh. The 2.4 GHz option reaches roughly 1 mile line of sight and 300 ft indoors. Battery life depends on how often you sample and whether raw time-domain capture is enabled.

View the NCD base sensor

Sensor count, gateway placement, sampling strategy, and lead time are confirmed with each quote.

A spectrum nobody can read never prevented a failure.

Reading vibration data is a specialist skill most plants do not have on staff. Our intelligence layer does that part, and because these readings are ordinary tags it sees your process data at the same time.

Learns what normal looks like

It builds a baseline from how each machine actually runs and flags drift away from it, instead of waiting for a threshold somebody guessed at.

Names the fault and how urgent

Bearing wear, imbalance, misalignment, looseness, or cavitation, with a severity and a recommended next action.

Dashboards and alerts you already use

Machine health trends next to your process data, and problems raise an alarm in the same system as the rest of the plant.

Fix it on your schedule.

Vibration climbs for weeks before a machine actually stops. That is enough warning to order the part, get a crew booked, and do the work in a window you picked instead of one the machine picked for you.

  • Best fit: motors, pumps, fans, compressors, and gearboxes with a history of surprise downtime.
  • What changes: repairs move into planned downtime, so you stop paying for emergency callouts and rush freight.
  • Worth saying: this plans maintenance work. It is not a safety or trip function.
OVERALL VIBRATIONalert levelCaught herebaselineweeks laterWeeks of warning, not minutes

Find out what your machines are already telling you.

Tell us which assets keep causing problems. We will scope the sensors, the gateway, and the tag mapping around them.

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