Built for the plant floor
Industrial equipment works in conditions that consumer electronics never meet. Surfaces are hot. Air carries dust, oil and moisture. Everything vibrates. Electrical noise from drives and switchgear is constant. A device that is to live on a machine for years has to be designed for all of it.
NODE Industrial is intended as the general-purpose device for these environments. It is the model most deployments are expected to be built around.
Where it is intended to fit
- Electric motors and the equipment they drive.
- Pumps, including chilled-water, process and circulation pumps.
- Compressors, fans and blowers.
- Gearboxes, conveyors and other rotating equipment.
- Cooling and mechanical plant in data centers and large facilities.
Depth of observation
Machines of this kind reward close attention. Their faults develop in ways that are well understood and physically distinct, and telling one from another is the difference between a useful recommendation and a vague alarm. NODE Industrial is designed to observe an asset through several modalities at once and to perform substantial analysis at the edge.
The aim is a finding specific enough to act on: an indication of what is changing in the machine and where to look first.
Part of a system
NODE Industrial reports to AFFERENT Cloud, where findings are designed to be set in the context of an asset's history and of similar assets elsewhere. It is intended to work alongside NODE Mini on smaller equipment and NODE Critical on the assets where failure is least acceptable.
Specifications
Specifications for NODE Industrial will be published here once engineering has confirmed them. To discuss requirements for a specific environment, contact the product team.
