Predictive
Base + DSP + AIKnow a bearing is failing three weeks before it does.
- Edge AI Machine Stress Index 0–100
- Full FFT, envelope, spectrogram, RPM detection
- Fleet dashboards across sites
Edge condition monitoring · Beckhoff IPC
Condition monitoring you buy once and keep. Threshold alarms to FFT-based edge AI, on Beckhoff IPCs. No subscription, no data leaving your plant.
hardware availability
data ownership
acquisition cost

For plant managers
Sold, versus needed.
Legacy systems
SensorDataFabrics
Nothing proprietary between the sensor and your SCADA.
DSP and AI are add-on services — switch them on later, step up the IPC, keep the sensors.
Know a bearing is failing three weeks before it does.
See the defect frequency, not just the alarm.
Only pay for compute the machine actually needs.
with DSP + AI metrics only
Sensors in — IPC, headroom and one-off cost out. No form, no sales call.
No cabling, battery powered. Raw waveform and DSP, fewer data points.
| IPC | Wireless | Wired IEPE |
|---|---|---|
| CX9240recommended | 29 | 14 |
| C6015 | 57 | 29 |
| C6025 | 86 | 43 |
| C6030 | 114 | 57 |
Your configuration
CX9240
12 wireless sensors · DSP · AI — headroom 29 wireless per IPC.
Wired channels cost more because each one needs a 24-bit / 50 kS/s acquisition card — but EtherCAT daisy-chains machine to machine on a single Ethernet cable, so the cabling cost comes back down. You own it all: the only recurring item is the optional cloud dashboard at $24 / sensor / year ($288/yr here).
Send my configurationSensors
IEPE · wireless
Beckhoff IPC
CX9240 → C6030
Edge services
Alarms · DSP · AI
Your stack
OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus
RMS · Peak · Kurtosis → tower lights
FFT · envelope · spectrogram · RPM
0–100 Stress Index, scored locally
Local DB → OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus
Web HMI · RBAC · offline rollback
Every site, one Azure view


| Vendor | Their constraint | SensorDataFabrics |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson AMS | 12-channel CHARM limit | 64 sensors per EtherCAT ring |
| Allen-Bradley | 87-day hardware lead times | Off-the-shelf Beckhoff availability |
| Bently Nevada | Manual expert configuration | Autonomous edge learning |
| Siemens | Cloud-only, high-latency models | Sub-second local reaction |
| Augury / Tractian | Proprietary cloud fees, data silos | 100% data ownership, open protocols |
| Capability | Wired · TwinCAT/EtherCAT | Wireless · LoRaWAN |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time metrics & alarms | ||
| Edge AI stress index | ||
| Raw waveform capture | Continuous, high rate | Duty-cycled, fewer points |
| Deep DSP (FFT, envelope, spectrogram) | Yes, on VibraSens sensors | |
| Physical I/O control | Optional | |
| Cable-free retrofit |
One-off hardware and licence. You own it; it runs without us.
recurring, edge
sensor / yr, cloud
per downtime hour
The subscription passes the one-off purchase in year 3 and keeps climbing. Everything after that — plus the downtime the edge AI catches — is margin you keep. Figures are illustrative; your configuration produces a real number.
Send your machine list — you get hardware sizing and a payback estimate back.
Or start with a free single-machine pilot on entry hardware — prove it before you ask for budget.
Yes. SensorDataFabrics runs as a TwinCAT application on Beckhoff IPCs and joins your existing EtherCAT segment; measurement terminals daisy-chain onto the same ring, up to 65,535 nodes with sub-microsecond Distributed Clock synchronisation.
Every edge node keeps its own local database. Logging, alarms and AI scoring continue without the network or the cloud, and buffered data is forwarded northbound once the link returns.
Wireless VibraSens sensors do capture raw waveforms and run deep DSP — FFT, envelope and spectrogram — but on a duty-cycled interval with fewer data points per capture than the wired path. For continuous raw streaming and sub-second physical I/O reaction, use the wired EtherCAT variant.
No. The edge system is a one-off hardware and licence purchase that you own outright and that keeps running with no connection to us. The only recurring item is the optional cloud fleet dashboard at $24 per sensor per year.
24-bit resolution lets SensorDataFabrics resolve bearing defect energy down to roughly 12 RPM, where 16-bit systems only see their own noise floor.