The case for small
In most facilities the largest machines are already watched. The gap is everything else. Circulation pumps, fan motors, small compressors and auxiliary drives are numerous, individually inexpensive and collectively responsible for a great deal of disruption. No one installs a traditional monitoring system on a fan coil unit.
NODE Mini is designed for that population. The intent is a device small enough to mount in tight spaces, simple enough to install in minutes and economical enough to deploy in quantity.
Where it is intended to fit
- Commercial building plant: pumps, fans, air handling units and small chillers.
- Auxiliary equipment in manufacturing: the supporting motors and drives around a primary process.
- Secondary systems in data centers and laboratories.
- Any setting where the number of assets, more than the value of any one of them, is the challenge.
Shared intelligence
NODE Mini is planned to run the same approach to edge analysis as the rest of the family and to report to the same AFFERENT Cloud. A facility can use Mini devices for breadth and larger models for depth, and manage them together.
Distributed coverage also strengthens the picture. Many modest observation points, read together, can describe the condition of a whole system in a way that a single well-instrumented machine cannot.
Specifications
Specifications for NODE Mini will be published here once engineering has confirmed them. To discuss requirements for a specific environment, contact the product team.
