Edge condition monitoring · Beckhoff IPC

Own Your Edge.

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
20+ yr

hardware availability

data ownership
100%

data ownership

acquisition cost
One-off

acquisition cost

SensorDataFabrics edge HMI showing a predictive maintenance asset map with live vibration gauges
Raw waveform25.6 kHz · 24-bit
FFT spectrumBPFO detected

For plant managers

The Obsolescence-Proof Edge

Sold, versus needed.

Legacy systems

  • ~5-year obsolescence cycles
  • Proprietary firmware lock-in
  • Manual expert configuration per asset
  • Vendor-controlled data silos

SensorDataFabrics

  • 20+ year hardware availability
  • Open PC-based architecture
  • Autonomous edge AI that learns the machine
  • 100% data ownership, open protocols

Built on standards you already run

Nothing proprietary between the sensor and your SCADA.

  • Beckhoff
  • OPC UA
  • MQTT
  • Modbus
  • HTTPS

Three levels of intelligence. One architecture.

DSP and AI are add-on services — switch them on later, step up the IPC, keep the sensors.

Predictive

Base + DSP + AI

Know 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

Advanced

Base + DSP

See the defect frequency, not just the alarm.

  • High-speed raw capture
  • On-demand FFT and band-pass filtering
  • Auto-detected Frequencies of Interest

Basic

Base

Only pay for compute the machine actually needs.

  • RMS, Peak, Kurtosis vs. ISO 10816-3 thresholds
  • Tower lights and hard-wired outputs
  • Northbound egress to SCADA/MES
Sensor capacity per IPC — each add-on costs 20% of it
  • CX92402948 wireless · 1424 wired
  • C60155796 wireless · 2948 wired
  • C602586144 wireless · 4372 wired
  • C6030114192 wireless · 5796 wired

with DSP + AI metrics only

Build your configuration in 30 seconds

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.

Intelligence add-ons

Each add-on reduces how many sensors a given IPC can carry by 20% — so the sizing moves up the hardware ladder, not into a different product.

Sensor capacity per IPC at your current add-on selection
IPCWirelessWired IEPE
CX9240recommended2914
C60155729
C60258643
C603011457

Your configuration

CX9240

12 wireless sensors · DSP · AI — headroom 29 wireless per IPC.

Per sensor, one-off
$375
Whole system, one-off
$4,500

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 configuration

Six capabilities. Run only the ones the machine earns.

Signal path — nothing leaves the plant unless you send it
  1. 01

    Sensors

    IEPE · wireless

  2. 02

    Beckhoff IPC

    CX9240 → C6030

  3. 03

    Edge services

    Alarms · DSP · AI

  4. 04

    Your stack

    OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus

Core

Metrics & Alarms

RMS · Peak · Kurtosis → tower lights

Optional

High-Speed DSP

FFT · envelope · spectrogram · RPM

Optional

Edge AI

0–100 Stress Index, scored locally

Core

Storage & Egress

Local DB → OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus

Core

HMI & Ops

Web HMI · RBAC · offline rollback

Optional

Fleet Dashboards

Every site, one Azure view

Scalar metric log with peak amplitude, mean average and alarm breach counters
Local metric logging with CSV export — the data never leaves your plant unless you send it.
Fleet dashboard aggregating vibration telemetry across wired and wireless systems
Optional Azure fleet view across every edge, wired and wireless.

Named, specific, checkable

VendorTheir constraintSensorDataFabrics
Emerson AMS12-channel CHARM limit64 sensors per EtherCAT ring
Allen-Bradley87-day hardware lead timesOff-the-shelf Beckhoff availability
Bently NevadaManual expert configurationAutonomous edge learning
SiemensCloud-only, high-latency modelsSub-second local reaction
Augury / TractianProprietary cloud fees, data silos100% data ownership, open protocols

Wired or wireless — same platform

CapabilityWired · TwinCAT/EtherCATWireless · LoRaWAN
Real-time metrics & alarms
Edge AI stress index
Raw waveform captureContinuous, high rateDuty-cycled, fewer points
Deep DSP (FFT, envelope, spectrogram)Yes, on VibraSens sensors
Physical I/O controlOptional
Cable-free retrofit

Buy it once. A subscription never stops.

One-off hardware and licence. You own it; it runs without us.

recurring, edge
$0

recurring, edge

sensor / yr, cloud
$24

sensor / yr, cloud

per downtime hour
6 figures

per downtime hour

Cumulative cost · 10 machines · 5 years
$0k$26k$52kY0Y1Y2Y3Y4Y5
  • SensorDataFabrics — one-off hardware, then $24 / sensor / year for the optional cloud dashboard.
  • Typical monitoring subscription — cheap on day one, never stops.

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.

Prove it on one machine, at our cost

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.

Questions engineers actually ask us

Does this work with our existing EtherCAT masters?

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.

What happens to logging during a plant power outage?

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.

What is the real sample-rate ceiling over LoRaWAN?

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.

Is this a subscription?

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.

How slow can a machine turn before you stop seeing anything?

24-bit resolution lets SensorDataFabrics resolve bearing defect energy down to roughly 12 RPM, where 16-bit systems only see their own noise floor.

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