The app sends an alert when sensors stop reporting, providing early warning of the outage. The system also can alert plant maintenance to power outages caused by malfunctions with the local electrical utility. This helps keep the air compressors operating at peak performance and can reveal a leak after it happens, avoiding waste. The process monitoring system allows maintenance to track air usage. To supply constant air pressure to the plant’s testing facilities, several compressors fill reserve tanks and deliver air pressure. Maintenance also can use the same system on the plant’s air compressors.

With the right process monitoring system, this same facility manager can check the boiler pressure from anywhere by using an application on a smartphone. Without process monitoring, the facility maintenance manager needs to have a person on site to monitor the boiler gauges. The steam generated by the boiler is critical to the manufacturing processes, and if the pressure falls below 100 psi, costly downtime will likely follow. For example, wireless I/O and sensing monitors a boiler system used in the manufacture of elastomers. Real-world testing is the proof of effectiveness.

Courtesy: ATC Diversified Electronics, Marsh Bellofram Proving the concept: boilers, air compressors, power reliability ATC Diversified Electronics is part of Marsh Bellofram. Android and Apple iOS mobile app makes monitoring easy. System uses any 0-20 milliamp, 4-20 milliamp, 0-5 volt or 0-10 volt sensors.

Sensor data is monitored in real-time and alerts are triggered based on customizable thresholds. A variety of sensors, such as temperature, humidity, vibration, and pressure, can be hardwired directly to the Sensert Base Unit or wirelessly connected via the Sensert Remote I/O. ATC Diversified Electronics Sensert is a remote process monitoring and alert system.

Remote process monitor