Accessible AC motors, centrifugal pumps, fans, blowers, simple gearboxes and conveyor drives, subject to application review.
SENTINEL M1 · PILOT APPLICATIONS OPEN
KNOW WHEN
THE MACHINE
BEGINS TO CHANGE.
Sentinel is being developed to watch suitable rotating equipment between inspections, put condition evidence in front of the maintenance team and record what happened after intervention.
Discuss a Critical Asset Pilot ↗
90 DAYSProposed initial pilot
8–12 POINTSCritical assets first
NON-HAZARDOUSInitial application scope
IN DEVELOPMENTTo be validated through pilots
A bounded first deployment
START WITH THE
MACHINES THAT MATTER.
The proposed Critical Asset Pilot starts with a small set of machines whose unexpected loss has a meaningful operating consequence. SSA documents the asset and monitoring position, establishes normal behaviour, reviews material changes and connects investigated events to the physical finding.
Asset onboarding, baseline history, condition review, maintenance-event records and before/after verification when intervention occurs.
A safety instrument, machinery-protection system, guaranteed failure predictor or replacement for maintenance engineering judgment.
The operating loop
AN ALERT SHOULD LEAD
TO A BETTER DECISION.
The useful record joins the signal to what the team inspected, what work was performed and whether the measured condition improved.
Capture vibration, surface temperature and activity from an agreed monitoring position.
Establish how that specific machine behaves during normal operating states.
Put a material change and its evidence in front of an engineer.
Inspect the equipment and perform the appropriate maintenance response.
Measure again to see whether the condition moved back toward normal.
Preserve the event, finding and outcome in the machine’s Asset Passport.
The initial system
DESIGNED TO START
WITHOUT AN IT PROJECT.
Use useful plant data where it already exists. Add independent monitoring where important machines remain unseen.
Sentinel node
Vibration, surface temperature, machine activity, local processing and buffered measurements.
SSA gateway
Independent communications and backhaul intended to reduce dependence on plant Wi-Fi.
Condition review
Baseline, trends, engineering evidence and a clear workflow for investigation.
Asset Passport
Machine identity, monitoring history, maintenance findings, interventions and verified outcomes.
Application boundary
QUALIFY THE ASSET
BEFORE INSTALLATION.
- Rotating equipment with accessible bearing housings
- Meaningful downtime or maintenance consequence
- Incomplete continuous condition monitoring
- A maintenance team able to investigate findings
- Hazardous-area applications requiring certified equipment
- Safety-instrumented or machinery-protection functions
- Turbines and complex reciprocating machinery
- A promise that every failure will be detected
Have 8–12 machines worth watching more closely?
Discuss the pilot ↗