Industrial Monitoring Solutions

A new solution solves all of these problems for your steam trap monitoring and maintenance strategy — allowing you to eliminate costly physical inspections of your traps, receive continuous trap data and predictive analysis through an online dashboard, and use self-powered sensors that never need a battery replacement.

By deploying wireless sensors across your facility that are powered entirely by energy they harvest from their environment — and will therefore never die or “run out” — you can realize all of the benefits of continuous health monitoring and failure alerts of your steam trap network without the ongoing responsibility for sensor maintenance or battery replacement.

The Everactive platform can help you solve all your company’s steam trap monitoring challenges simultaneously, through:

1. Low total cost of ownership — simple installation and insights-as-a-service model mean low up-front costs, while batteryless technology eliminates sensor maintenance, allowing you to focus resources when and where they are needed.
2. Large-scale deployment — achieve fleet-wide steam trap coverage by avoiding steep up-front costs, battery replacements, and ongoing sensor maintenance.
3. Access to cost-saving data streams — pervasive and continuous monitoring generates advanced analytics not possible with alternative solutions.

Continuous Temperature Monitoring

Most wireless sensors take temperature readings at relatively long intervals.  The reasons these sensors need to be somewhat stingy with their spot-checks, as you’ve probably guessed by this point, is to conserve the device’s battery life.

The problem, though, is that a lot of atmospheric factors are contributing to the temperature around a steam trap at any given moment.  A series of spot-checks taken 15 minutes apart, therefore, could create erroneous temperature readings, yielding false positives or false negatives.

This is one crucial area in which self-powered sensors outperform every other solution:  they can actively monitor traps continuously — taking readings as frequently as every 10 seconds.  This much richer stream of data creates a far more accurate picture of any given trap’s actual temperature, as well as the overall health of all your facility’s traps.

Adaptive Learning

A related benefit of the batteryless sensor’s ability to generate a continuous stream  of real-time temperature data is that these sensors can then apply intelligence to  that constant data stream — and actually become “smarter” with each additional  piece of data it collects from each trap. 

This enables the self-powered sensor to actually become a learning machine — as  it collects, studies, and analyzes this data — and become increasingly adept at  identifying problem traps and even predicting failure events before they occur.

For vibration analysts, the process of collecting, reviewing, and reporting on machine health can be time consuming — hours spent traveling to and from sites and machinery, accessing hard-to-reach equipment, waiting for machines to actually be on!  Everactive’s self-powered sensors let vibration analysts remotely and continuously monitor machinery to increase coverage, maximize service reliability, and equipment uptime.  With always-on condition monitoring, only maintain machines that require your attention.