Sensor Highway - Condition Based Monitoring Systems

Vibra-Metrics built the patented Sensor Highway (Pat.# 5,255,565) to provide plant managers with a low-cost, modular solution for achieving advanced on-line monitoring of critical equipment parameters such as vibration, temperature, pressure, and almost any other parameter. It also holds the key to success: better Return on Investment. Companies must get substantial benefit from predictive maintenance (PdM) cost outlays, especially the expenditures for equipment monitoring. The Vibra-Metrics' expandable Sensor Highway System offers advantages over traditional predictive maintenance programs such as increased data collection frequency, more repeatable/accurate data, easier trending analysis, and more efficient use of your PdM Staff.
The bottom line: a PdM system like Sensor Highway can return up to five time the investment in a short period of time.

The building-block approach to advanced on-line monitoring:

	Read existing switchboxes with data logger.
	Replace switchboxes with TAMs (transducer address modules); add Sensor Highway cable and controller.
	Add your choice of any company's continuous surveillance and/or diagnostic program for a true on-line system.
	Add more sensors, more TAM's, more cable (up to thousands of feet) - at any time in the future. Obtain readings at a single location from the Sensor Highway control panel.

System Overview

The Sensor Highway from Vibra-Metrics is equipment monitoring in the super fast lane. In an instant, it's capable of collecting vibration, temperature, pressure and other parameter data from up to 4000 sensors throughout a facility and transporting the information back to the controller or a processing PC for surveillance and analysis.

Features and Benefits

Open-Architecture accepts all two-wire sensor types -- uses existing analog points.
Compatible With Most Data Collectors: DLI, ENTEK/IRD, SKF.,
Advanced Modular Design allows affordable incremental upgrades.
One On-Line System connects all sensors -- saves installation costs.
Consolidated Monitoring speeds up data collection time, assures accuracy.
Fault-Tolerant, Mutliple-Bus Design for added versatility and reliability.

ALL TYPES OF 2-WIRE SENSORS. ALL KINDS OF CONTROL.
With the Sensor Highway, you have one central system that reliably acquires signals from hundreds of sensors of all types. Power requirements are handled by the control. So the need for scattered network supplies is eliminated and the potential for problems is reduced.

Our unique fault-tolerant, multiple-bus design allows up to four analog data signals to be addressed, connected, read and compared simultaneously.

If a path on the Sensor Highway is blocked for any reason -- by accident or for maintenance -- all monitoring traffic will continue flowing.

MORE EFFICIENCY WITH MORE SAFETY.
Monitoring on a "walking route" takes time and too much of it. With the Sensor Highway, you can minimize data collection time, break loose highly skilled PdM man-hours and keep the focus on the facility operation. But more efficiency isn't all you gain. Reducing the amount of time personnel spends walking/crawling around equipment to gather data reduces the possibility of accidents, and improves your safety record.

UPGRADE TO YOUR CHOICE OF SUPERVISORY SYSTEMS.
When you're ready, upgrade your Sensor Highway with any compatible surveillance program, such as Vibralarm, our dedicated on-line supervisory software system, through a universally standard serial ASCII coded interface.

• Vibralarm's advanced software provides a wide range of graphical applications that are simple to use. Real-time vibration data can be quickly accessed through Vibralarm's various graphical display screens. To access the information the user simply clicks or points to a particular area of the screen. The system then advances to the next display that provides additional vibration data. Displays include the Bar graph Screen, Machine Unit or Group Display and the Channel Screen.
  
  
  
  
• The Bar graph Screen provides an overview of the alarm system and the alarm status of each channel. The alert and danger set point values are displayed for each channel. Users are alerted to a change in alarm status by a change in the bar color of the channel.
  
  
  
  
• The Machine Unit/Group Display indicates the current value for a group of
  channels. A color graphic identifies the position of each transducer on the
  machine being monitored. Additional data can be accessed by clicking on
  objects indicating Current Meter, Maximum Meter, Trend or Spectrum.
  
  
  
  
• The Channel Screen shows a meter indicating the current value of a channel. It also provides trend and spectrum displays that allow easy manipulation of projected data.

• Also from the unit screen you can view all the spectrums for that machine.From this screen you can analysis a frequencies magnitude as it changes through the machine.