NODE Mini is the compact member of the NODE family. It is designed for coverage: bringing continuous observation to the large number of smaller assets that have never justified a dedicated monitoring system.
One intelligence. Every environment.
Physical environments differ. A fan coil unit in an office tower, a compressor on a plant floor and a transformer in a substation ask different things of a sensing device. The NODE family is planned as three devices that share one intelligence.
NODE Industrial is the core of the NODE family. It is designed for the working machinery of plants and facilities: motors, pumps, compressors and the rotating equipment that production and cooling depend on.
NODE Critical is designed for the assets whose failure is least acceptable: the transformers, generators and essential plant on which a facility, a network or a community depends.
One platform across three devices
The three NODE models are planned to differ in size, sensing depth, ruggedization and the kinds of assets they suit. They are designed to share the things that should not differ: the way they analyze signals at the edge, the way they communicate, the way they are secured and managed, and the models they contribute to and learn from.
For an operator, that means one system to learn. A facility could place compact devices across its many small assets and more capable devices on the few assets whose failure would stop everything, and see all of them in one place.
Choosing a model
The right device depends on the asset. Three questions usually settle it. How costly is an unplanned failure of this asset? How harsh is the place where it runs? And how many assets of this kind need to be covered? The individual product pages describe where each model is intended to fit.
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