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Wireless Asset Health Monitoring Made Easy

Company

mgt.team

iQunet = Tech start-up (Belgium, °2015) iQunet Vision : “Wireless Asset Health Monitoring Made Easy” Founders iQunet

• CEO, Dirk Van den Branden, Ing, MBA
• CTO, Wim Vereecken, Dr. Ir.

Vast knowledge of

• Electronic (chip) design
• RF-technology
• Product development

100% in house R&D and production with focus on

• Innovative
• battery operated
• wireless
• small sensors
• for industrial applications

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Wireless Online Vibration Monitoring

Product Overview 2019 (details see online shop)

Basic Network Components Optional Network components Sensors iQunet server Base station Repeater Actuator Vibration + temp. (acceleration) Inclination + temp. (accelaration) Proximity + temp. (hall effect) Proximity switch + temp. (reed) CO2 + VOC + RH + T° (not available yet) PIR motion + temp. (not available yet) Temperature logger (temperature)

Why Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)?

Start Vibration Analysis & Fault Detection Increase Plant Asset Availability 89% of failures are random in nature ! Potential Failure Functional Failure

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A complete system of

• Wireless Sensors
• Base station
• Small Din Rail Server

… that measures vibration of rotating equipment … and makes the data available from anywhere via standardized OPC UA communication … stores the data on the local iQunet Unix Server

Vibration Monitoring (predictive)

APIs

Web-dashboard

From any browser(*)

(*) WebRTC ready browser e.g. Chrome

With 2-way communication

• Configure sensors
• Analyse data

With easy access to sensors

• Via Internet
• Via company network

Full control from any device

Communication

Vibration data locally stored on iQunet server is open (no lock-in) OPC UA ensures seamless flow of information

Sensor Network OPC UA Server

iQunet offering

Technology

Sensor sleep current is extremely low (<1µA)

• Touching the batteries reduces the battery life

time with approx. 50% due to induced leakage current being higher than sensor consumption Wireless transmission is ultra fast with low consumption

• Lean but effective wireless iQunet protocol

increases payload/overhead ratio Digitalisation of the sensor makes it very low power

• Inside accelerometer made of MEMS Integrated

Circuits makes it possible to run the electronics on 2 standard CR2032 coin cells

Features

Range of the sensors

• 10-50m depending on (*)
• sensor mounting
• Machine density in the plant
• Construction of the plant
• Can be extended 1x with Repeater node(s) (**)

Number of sensors in the range

• Unlimited

Life time of the batteries in the wireless sensors

• ±5 years (@1 complete 3-ax measurement/day + 100 x T°/day)

(*) Note1: 50m in ideal setting / 15 to 25m in average in industrial settings (**) Note2: with inherent reduced data bandwidth (slower wireless transfer rates)

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• Advantages MEMS wireless battery operated sensors
• Semi-continuous measurement – largely available (trend) data
• Compressive sensing techniques
• Full spectrum (not only RMS)
• Characteristic harmonic detection
• Operating point clustering
• Lower TCO, smaller physical footprint, cheaper
• Largely available cheap measurement points
• Faster installation
• Low power / on batteries / no cables
• Disadvantages MEMS wireless battery operated sensors
• Trade off between power, accuracy and number of datapoints
• Less accurate (but many datapoints = Machine Learning ready)
• -> available for many assets !
• Advantages Piezo-electric sensors
• Larger measuring range, more

information in one measure

• Proven analytical technique (experts)
• Disadvantage Piezo-electric sensor
• Labour-intensive
• Snapshot (portable equipment)
• Very expensive online wired/wireless

equipment

• ->used with highly critical assets

“MEMS”-vibration monitoring

The classic way

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• With the same available power

 less accurate , but more datapoints

• Interesting mechanical features of MEMS:

 Less sensitive ( up to 10.000g)

 3-axial

• Small:

 combination with other features (T°, Wireless, Memory, …)

• Inexpensive electronics part:

 use of more MEMS sensors in one device

• Inexpensive computing power

 correlation via Machine learning possible

“MEMS”-vibration monitoring

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

Comparison (performed by Siemens)

between

High-end piezo-electric sensor

and

iQunet wireless sensor

VS.

Case Bio Mass Central

please note differences in graph scales

• iQunet sensor detects also the bearing errors (all “frequency peaks”

related to bearing errors are available – yet with less resolution)

• iQunet resolution in lower frequencies could be increased by

sampling at lower rates with high number of samples (setting in dashboard)

• The iQunet sensor is a perfect low cost fit for anomaly detection

with machine learning techniques

Setup & Installation

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

Setup: “plug&play”

Mounting: “plug&play”

Drill Ø4mm and insert M3 wire bus

Mounting instructions

Hex Socket Cap Stainless Steel Plain Socket Screw, M3 x 16mm Equipment base (e.g. rotating equipment) Use epoxy adhesive for permanent mount Antenna top must be free from metal obstructions for best range (8 cm around the top in all directions)

Mounting instructions

Mounting instructions

Mounting instructions

Mounting instructions

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

CASES

Case Paper Mill – M&M Germany

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Karton Machine – Selection PoC

Length approx. 130 meter High approx. 13 meter

Case Paper Mill – M&M Germany

Case Paper Mill – M&M Germany

Case Bio Mass Central

Live demo: Case Bio Mass Central

Case Hot Mill (Arcelor Mittal Gent)

Live Demo – Hot Mill plant

Run out table hot mill – cooled down with water

Live Demo – Hot Mill plant

Sensors Drive Side

Live Demo – Hot Mill plant

Sensors Operator side

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

CASES

iQunet wireless battery-powered vibration sensors detect pump damage. With automatic measurements every hour, the increasing deviation compared to a recent pump was detected and followed up. Due to the iQunet sensors it was possible to replace the bad pump within planned downtime. Use Case: Monitoring end of life of motor-pump combination

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

Conclusion

• Secured iQunet server and save wireless communciation
• API with 200+ commands for maximum integration
• Clear pricing of the products, plug&play setup
• Excellent technical iQunet support
• Performant standardized OPC UA communication
• Many available ways to export or address data
• Partnering with Siemens
• Easy to expand system
• Products according to CE standards
• Computing in the edge solution minimilizes network usage
• Data remains local, no iQunet lock-in

Conclusion :

IIoT in predictive maintenance and asset monitoring with MEMS sensors

Asset Health Monitoring Made Easy

Contact : Dirk Van den Branden CEO / co-owner +32 478 44 66 20 dvdb@iqunet.com

Winner BEMAS Digital Innovation Award 2017

www.iQunet.com

Please contact us for a live demo (via online meeting)