WO2019094729A1 - Procédés et systèmes destiné à l'internet industriel des objets - Google Patents

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WO2019094729A1
WO2019094729A1 PCT/US2018/060043 US2018060043W WO2019094729A1 WO 2019094729 A1 WO2019094729 A1 WO 2019094729A1 US 2018060043 W US2018060043 W US 2018060043W WO 2019094729 A1 WO2019094729 A1 WO 2019094729A1
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  • the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for data collection in industrial environments, as well as methods and systems for leveraging collected data for monitoring, remote control, autonomous action, and other activities in industrial environments.
  • Heavy industrial environments such as environments for large scale manufacturing (such as of aircraft, ships, trucks, automobiles, and large industrial machines), energy production environments (such as oil and gas plants, renewable energy environments, and others), energy extraction environments (such as mining, drilling, and the like), construction environments (such as for construction of large buildings), and others, involve highly complex machines, devices and systems and highly complex workflows, in which operators must account for a host of parameters, metrics, and the like in order to optimize design, development, deployment, and operation of different technologies in order to improve overall results.
  • data has been collected in heavy industrial environments by human beings using dedicated data collectors, often recording batches of specific sensor data on media, such as tape or a hard drive, for later analysis.
  • Batches of data have historically been returned to a central office for analysis, such as by undertaking signal processing or other analysis on the data collected by various sensors, after which analysis can be used as a basis for diagnosing problems in an environment and/or suggesting ways to improve operations. This work has historically taken place on a time scale of weeks or months, and has been directed to limited data sets.
  • Methods and systems are provided herein for data collection in industrial environments, as well as for improved methods and systems for using collected data to provide improved monitoring, control, and intelligent diagnosis of problems and intelligent optimization of operations in various heavy industrial environments.
  • These methods and systems include methods, systems, components, devices, workflows, services, processes, and the like that are deployed in various configurations and locations, such as: (a) at the "edge" of the Internet of Things, such as in the local environment of a heavy industrial machine; (b) in data transport networks that move data between local environments of heavy industrial machines and other environments, such as of other machines or of remote controllers, such as enterprises that own or operate the machines or the facilities in which the machines are operated; and (c) in locations where facilities are deployed to control machines or their environments, such as cloud-computing environments and on-premises computing environments of enterprises that own or control heavy industrial environments or the machines, devices or systems deployed in them.
  • These methods and systems include a range of ways for providing improved data include a range of methods and systems for providing improved data collection, as well as methods and systems
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for continuous ultrasonic monitoring, including providing continuous ultrasonic monitoring of rotating elements and bearings of an energy production facility.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices, including on-device sensor fusion and data storage for an Industrial IoT device, where data from multiple sensors is multiplexed at the device for storage of a fused data stream.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data, including a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data, where available data elements are organized in the marketplace for consumption by consumers based on training a self-organizing facility with a training set and feedback from measures of marketplace success.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for self-organizing data pools, including self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics, including utilization and/or yield metrics that are tracked for a plurality of data pools.
  • AI artificial intelligence
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors, including a self-organizing swarm of industrial data collectors that organize among themselves to optimize data collection based on the capabilities and conditions of the members of the swarm.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for an industrial IoT distributed ledger, including a distributed ledger supporting the tracking of transactions executed in an automated data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self-organizing collector, including a self-organizing, multi- sensor data collector that can optimize data collection, power and/or yield based on conditions in its environment.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a network-sensitive collector, including a network condition- sensitive, self -organizing, multi-sensor data collector that can optimize based on bandwidth, quality of service, pricing and/or other network conditions.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a remotely organized universal data collector that can power up and down sensor interfaces based on need and/or conditions identified in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector, including self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector for industrial sensor data.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self -organizing network coding for a multi-sensor data network, including self -organizing network coding for a data network that transports data from multiple sensors in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a haptic or multi-sensory user interface, including a wearable haptic or multi-sensory user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a system for data collection, processing, and utilization of signals from at least a first element in a first machine in an industrial environment includes a platform including a computing environment connected to a local data collection system having at least a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal obtained from at least the first machine in the industrial environment.
  • the system includes a first sensor in the local data collection system configured to be connected to the first machine and a second sensor in the local data collection system.
  • the system further includes a crosspoint switch in the local data collection system having multiple inputs and multiple outputs including a first input connected to the first sensor and a second input connected to the second sensor.
  • the multiple outputs include a first output and second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output is configured to switch between delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal from the first output and the second sensor signal from the second output.
  • Each of multiple inputs is configured to be individually assigned to any of the multiple outputs. Unassigned outputs are configured to be switched off producing a high- impedance state.
  • the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal are continuous vibration data about the industrial environment.
  • the second sensor in the local data collection system is configured to be connected to the first machine.
  • the second sensor in the local data collection system is configured to be connected to a second machine in the industrial environment.
  • the computing environment of the platform is configured to compare relative phases of the first and second sensor signals.
  • the first sensor is a single-axis sensor and the second sensor is a three-axis sensor.
  • at least one of the multiple inputs of the crosspoint switch includes internet protocol, front-end signal conditioning, for improved signal-to-noise ratio.
  • the crosspoint switch includes a third input that is configured with a continuously monitored alarm having a pre-determined trigger condition when the third input is unassigned to any of the multiple outputs.
  • the local data collection system includes multiple multiplexing units and multiple data acquisition units receiving multiple data streams from multiple machines in the industrial environment.
  • the local data collection system includes distributed complex programmable hardware device (“CPLD") chips each dedicated to a data bus for logic control of the multiple multiplexing units and the multiple data acquisition units that receive the multiple data streams from the multiple machines in the industrial environment.
  • CPLD complex programmable hardware device
  • the local data collection system is configured to provide high-amperage input capability using solid state relays.
  • the local data collection system is configured to power-down at least one of an analog sensor channel and a component board.
  • the distributed CPLD chips each dedicated to the data bus for logic control of the multiple multiplexing units and the multiple data acquisition units includes as high-frequency crystal clock reference configured to be divided by at least one of the distributed CPLD chips for at least one delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without digital resampling.
  • the local data collection system is configured to obtain long blocks of data at a single relatively high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • the single relatively high-sampling rate corresponds to a maximum frequency of about forty kilohertz.
  • the long blocks of data are for a duration that is in excess of one minute.
  • the local data collection system includes multiple data acquisition units each having an onboard card set configured to store calibration information and maintenance history of a data acquisition unit in which the onboard card set is located.
  • the local data collection system is configured to plan data acquisition routes based on hierarchical templates.
  • the local data collection system is configured to manage data collection bands.
  • the data collection bands define a specific frequency band and at least one of a group of spectral peaks, a true-peak level, a crest factor derived from a time waveform, and an overall waveform derived from a vibration envelope.
  • the local data collection system includes a neural net expert system using intelligent management of the data collection bands.
  • the local data collection system is configured to create data acquisition routes based on hierarchical templates that each include the data collection bands related to machines associated with the data acquisition routes. In embodiments, at least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with multiple interconnected elements of the first machine.
  • At least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with similar elements associated with at least the first machine and a second machine. In embodiments, at least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with at least the first machine being proximate in location to a second machine.
  • the local data collection system includes a graphical user interface ("GUI") system configured to manage the data collection bands.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • the GUI system includes an expert system diagnostic tool.
  • the platform includes cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple sensors to provide anticipated state information for the industrial environment.
  • the platform is configured to provide self-organization of data pools based on at least one of the utilization metrics and yield metrics.
  • the platform includes a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • the local data collection system includes a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector with at least one of vibration, heat, electrical, and sound outputs.
  • multiple inputs of the crosspoint switch include a third input connected to the second sensor and a fourth input connected to the second sensor.
  • the first sensor signal is from a single-axis sensor at an unchanging location associated with the first machine.
  • the second sensor is a three-axis sensor.
  • the local data collection system is configured to record gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from at least the first input, the second input, the third input, and the fourth input.
  • the platform is configured to determine a change in relative phase based on the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data.
  • the second sensor is configured to be movable to a plurality of positions associated with the first machine while obtaining the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data.
  • multiple outputs of the crosspoint switch include a third output and fourth output.
  • the second, third, and fourth outputs are assigned together to a sequence of tri-axial sensors each located at different positions associated with the machine.
  • the platform is configured to determine an operating deflection shape based on the change in relative phase and the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data.
  • the unchanging location is a position associated with the rotating shaft of the first machine.
  • tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at different positions on the first machine but are each associated with different bearings in the machine.
  • tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at similar positions associated with similar bearings but are each associated with different machines.
  • the local data collection system is configured to obtain the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data from the first machine while the first machine and a second machine are both in operation.
  • the local data collection system is configured to characterize a contribution from the first machine and the second machine in the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data from the first machine.
  • the simultaneously recorded gap-free digital waveform data has a duration that is in excess of one minute.
  • a method of monitoring a machine having at least one shaft supported by a set of bearings includes monitoring a first data channel assigned to a single-axis sensor at an unchanging location associated with the machine.
  • the method includes monitoring second, third, and fourth data channels each assigned to an axis of a three-axis sensor.
  • the method includes recording gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from all of the data channels while the machine is in operation and determining a change in relative phase based on the digital waveform data.
  • the tri-axial sensor is located at a plurality of positions associated with the machine while obtaining the digital waveform.
  • the second, third, and fourth channels are assigned together to a sequence of tri-axial sensors each located at different positions associated with the machine.
  • the data is received from all of the sensors simultaneously.
  • the method includes determining an operating deflection shape based on the change in relative phase information and the waveform data.
  • the unchanging location is a position associated with the shaft of the machine.
  • the tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at different positions and are each associated with different bearings in the machine.
  • the unchanging location is a position associated with the shaft of the machine.
  • the tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at different positions and are each associated with different bearings that support the shaft in the machine.
  • the method includes monitoring the first data channel assigned to the single-axis sensor at an unchanging location located on a second machine.
  • the method includes monitoring the second, the third, and the fourth data channels, each assigned to the axis of a three-axis sensor that is located at the position associated with the second machine.
  • the method also includes recording gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from all of the data channels from the second machine while both of the machines are in operation.
  • the method includes characterizing the contribution from each of the machines in the gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from the second machine.
  • a method for data collection, processing, and utilization of signals with a platform monitoring at least a first element in a first machine in an industrial environment includes obtaining, automatically with a computing environment, at least a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal with a local data collection system that monitors at least the first machine.
  • the method includes connecting a first input of a crosspoint switch of the local data collection system to a first sensor and a second input of the crosspoint switch to a second sensor in the local data collection system.
  • the method includes switching between a condition in which a first output of the crosspoint switch alternates between delivery of at least the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal from the first output and the second sensor signal from a second output of the crosspoint switch.
  • the method also includes switching off unassigned outputs of the crosspoint switch into a high-impedance state.
  • the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal are continuous vibration data from the industrial environment.
  • the second sensor in the local data collection system is connected to the first machine.
  • the second sensor in the local data collection system is connected to a second machine in the industrial environment.
  • the method includes comparing, automatically with the computing environment, relative phases of the first and second sensor signals.
  • the first sensor is a single-axis sensor and the second sensor is a three-axis sensor.
  • at least the first input of the crosspoint switch includes internet protocol front-end signal conditioning for improved signal-to-noise ratio.
  • the method includes continuously monitoring at least a third input of the crosspoint switch with an alarm having a pre-determined trigger condition when the third input is unassigned to any of multiple outputs on the crosspoint switch.
  • the local data collection system includes multiple multiplexing units and multiple data acquisition units receiving multiple data streams from multiple machines in the industrial environment.
  • the local data collection system includes distributed CPLD chips each dedicated to a data bus for logic control of the multiple multiplexing units and the multiple data acquisition units that receive the multiple data streams from the multiple machines in the industrial environment.
  • the local data collection system provides high-amperage input capability using solid state relays.
  • the method includes powering down at least one of an analog sensor channel and a component board of the local data collection system.
  • the local data collection system includes an external voltage reference for an A/D zero reference that is independent of the voltage of the first sensor and the second sensor.
  • the local data collection system includes a phase-lock loop band-pass tracking filter that obtain slow-speed RPMs and phase information.
  • the method includes digitally deriving phase using on-board timers relative to at least one trigger channel and at least one of multiple inputs on the crosspoint switch.
  • the method includes auto-scaling with a peak-detector using a separate analog-to-digital converter for peak detection.
  • the method includes routing at least one trigger channel that is one of raw and buffered into at least one of multiple inputs on the crosspoint switch.
  • the method includes increasing input oversampling rates with at least one delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter to reduce sampling rate outputs and to minimize anti-aliasing filter requirements.
  • the distributed CPLD chips are each dedicated to the data bus for logic control of the multiple multiplexing units and the multiple data acquisition units and each include a high-frequency crystal clock reference divided by at least one of the distributed CPLD chips for at least one delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without digital resampling.
  • the method includes obtaining long blocks of data at a single relatively high-sampling rate with the local data collection system as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • the single relatively high-sampling rate corresponds to a maximum frequency of about forty kilohertz.
  • the long blocks of data are for a duration that is in excess of one minute.
  • the local data collection system includes multiple data acquisition units and each data acquisition unit has an onboard card set that stores calibration information and maintenance history of a data acquisition unit in which the onboard card set is located.
  • the method includes planning data acquisition routes based on hierarchical templates associated with at least the first element in the first machine in the industrial environment.
  • the local data collection system manages data collection bands that define a specific frequency band and at least one of a group of spectral peaks, a true-peak level, a crest factor derived from a time waveform, and an overall waveform derived from a vibration envelope.
  • the local data collection system includes a neural net expert system using intelligent management of the data collection bands.
  • the local data collection system creates data acquisition routes based on hierarchical templates that each include the data collection bands related to machines associated with the data acquisition routes.
  • At least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with multiple interconnected elements of the first machine. In embodiments, at least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with similar elements associated with at least the first machine and a second machine. In embodiments, at least one of the hierarchical templates is associated with at least the first machine being proximate in location to a second machine.
  • the method includes controlling a GUI system of the local data collection system to manage the data collection bands.
  • the GUI system includes an expert system diagnostic tool.
  • the computing environment of the platform includes cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple sensors to provide anticipated state information for the industrial environment.
  • the computing environment of the platform provides self-organization of data pools based on at least one of the utilization metrics and yield metrics.
  • the computing environment of the platform includes a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • each of multiple inputs of the crosspoint switch is individually assignable to any of multiple outputs of the crosspoint switch.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for capturing a plurality of streams of sensed data from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine; at least one of the streams containing a plurality of frequencies of data.
  • the method may include identifying a subset of data in at least one of the plurality of streams that corresponds to data representing at least one predefined frequency.
  • the at least one predefined frequency is represented by a set of data collected from alternate sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the method may further include processing the identified data with a data processing facility that processes the identified data with an algorithm configured to be applied to the set of data collected from alternate sensors. Lastly, the method may include storing the at least one of the streams of data, the identified subset of data, and a result of processing the identified data in an electronic data set.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing, and storage systems and may include a method for applying data captured from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the data is captured with predefined lines of resolution covering a predefined frequency range and is sent to a frequency matching facility that identifies a subset of data streamed from other sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the streamed data includes a plurality of lines of resolution and frequency ranges. The subset of data identified corresponds to the lines of resolution and predefined frequency range.
  • This method may include storing the subset of data in an electronic data record in a format that corresponds to a format of the data captured with predefined lines of resolution; and signaling to a data processing facility the presence of the stored subset of data.
  • This method may, optionally, include processing the subset of data with at least one set of algorithms, models and pattern recognizers that corresponds to algorithms, models and pattern recognizers associated with processing the data captured with predefined lines of resolution covering a predefined frequency range.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for identifying a subset of streamed sensor data, the sensor data captured from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the subset of streamed sensor data at predefined lines of resolution for a predefined frequency range, and establishing a first logical route for communicating electronically between a first computing facility performing the identifying and a second computing facility, wherein identified subset of the streamed sensor data is communicated exclusively over the established first logical route when communicating the subset of streamed sensor data from the first facility to the second facility.
  • This method may further include establishing a second logical route for communicating electronically between the first computing facility and the second computing facility for at least one portion of the streamed sensor data that is not the identified subset. Additionally, this method may further include establishing a third logical route for communicating electronically between the first computing facility and the second computing facility for at least one portion of the streamed sensor data that includes the identified subset and at least one other portion of the data not represented by the identified subset.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a first data sensing and processing system that captures first data from a first set of sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the first data covering a set of lines of resolution and a frequency range.
  • This system may include a second data sensing and processing system that captures and streams a second set of data from a second set of sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the second data covering a plurality of lines of resolution that includes the set of lines of resolution and a plurality of frequencies that includes the frequency range.
  • the system may enable selecting a portion of the second data that corresponds to the set of lines of resolution and the frequency range of the first data, and processing the selected portion of the second data with the first data sensing and processing system.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for automatically processing a portion of a stream of sensed data.
  • the sensed data is received from a first set of sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the sensed data is in response to an electronic data structure that facilitates extracting a subset of the stream of sensed data that corresponds to a set of sensed data received from a second set of sensors deployed to monitor the aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the set of sensed data is constrained to a frequency range.
  • the stream of sensed data includes a range of frequencies that exceeds the frequency range of the set of sensed data, the processing comprising executing an algorithm on a portion of the stream of sensed data that is constrained to the frequency range of the set of sensed data, the algorithm configured to process the set of sensed data.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for receiving first data from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine. This method may further include detecting at least one of a frequency range and lines of resolution represented by the first data; receiving a stream of data from sensors deployed to monitor the aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the stream of data includes: (1) a plurality of frequency ranges and a plurality of lines of resolution that exceeds the frequency range and the lines of resolution represented by the first data; (2) a set of data extracted from the stream of data that corresponds to at least one of the frequency range and the lines of resolution represented by the first data; and (3) the extracted set of data which is processed with a data processing algorithm that is configured to process data within the frequency range and within the lines of resolution of the first data.
  • An example data collection system in an industrial environment includes a data collector communicatively coupled to a number of input channels for acquiring collected data, where the collected data is industrial internet-of-things data; a data storage structured to store the collected data that corresponds to the number of input channels as a number of data pools; and a self -organizing data marketplace engine that receives the number of data pools and is organized based on training a marketplace self-organization with a training set and based on feedback from measures of marketplace success with respect to the number of data pools.
  • An example system includes where the self-organizing data marketplace engine learns to improve the measures of marketplace success based on determining user favored combinations of data pools through a selected collection of routines; where the self -organizing data marketplace engine is an expert system utilizing a neural network to classify the collected data for marketplace analysis; where the number of data pools include a data storage profile with a storage time definition for the collected data; where the self -organizing data marketplace engine utilizes a self-organizing map that creates a topology for the stored collected data; where the data storage includes stored local data acquisition calibration information; where the data storage includes stored local data acquisition maintenance information; and/or where the data collector is one of a number of self -organized data collectors, where the number of self -organized data collectors organize among themselves to optimize data collection based at least in part on a received data marketplace indicator.
  • An example system for monitoring a power roller of a conveyor in an industrial environment includes a number of sensors disposed to sense conditions of the power roller, where each sensor of the number of sensors produces a corresponding analog signal representative of a sensed condition; an analog crosspoint switch including a number of inputs and a number of outputs, where the analog signals produced by the number of sensors connect to a portion of the number of inputs; and where the analog crosspoint switch is configurable to route a portion of the analog signals representing sensed conditions of the power roller to a number of the outputs.
  • An example system further includes where the conditions of the power roller that are sensed by the number of sensors includes at least one of: a rate of rotation of the power roller, a load being transported by the power roller, a power amount consumed by the power roller, and/or a rate of acceleration of the power roller.
  • An example system for monitoring a fan in a factory setting includes a number of sensors disposed to sense conditions of the fan in the factory setting, where each sensor of the number of sensors produces a corresponding analog signal representative of a sensed condition; and an analog crosspoint switch including a number of inputs and a number of outputs, where the analog signals produced by the number of sensors connect to a portion of the number of outputs; and where the analog crosspoint switch is configurable to route a portion of the analog signals representing sensed conditions of the fan to a number of the outputs.
  • An example system further includes where the sensed conditions of the fan in the factory setting by the number by the number of sensors include at least one of: a fan blade tip speed, a torque, a back pressure, a number of revolutions per minute, and/or a volume of air per unit time produced by the fan.
  • An example system for monitoring a turbine in a power generation environment includes a number of sensors disposed to sense conditions of the turbine, where each sensor of the number of sensors produces a corresponding analog signal representative of a sensed condition; an analog crosspoint switch including a number of inputs and a number of outputs, where the analog signals produced by the number of sensors connect to a portion of the number of inputs; and where the analog crosspoint switch is configurable to route a portion of the analog signals representing sensed conditions of the turbine to a number of the outputs.
  • An example system further includes where the sensed conditions include at least one of: a relative shaft vibration, an absolute vibration of bearings, a turbine cover vibration, a thrust bearing axial vibration, a stator core vibration, a stator bar vibration, and/or a stator end winding vibration.
  • An example system for data collection in an industrial environment includes: a number of industrial condition sensing and acquisition modules; a number of programmable logic components, with at least one programmable logic component disposed on a corresponding one of each of the number of modules and controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of the module on which it is disposed; and a communication bus for interconnecting each programmable logic component of the number of programmable logic components with other programmable logic component that are associated with different ones of the sensing and acquisition modules.
  • An example system includes: where at least one programmable logic component is programmed via the communication bus; where the communication bus includes a portion that is dedicated to programming the programmable logic components; and/or where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes at least one power control function such as: controlling power of a sensor, controlling power of a multiplexer, controlling power of a portion of the module, and/or controlling a sleep mode of the programmable logic component.
  • An example system includes: where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes providing a voltage reference to at least one of a sensor and an analog to digital converter disposed on the module; where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes detecting a relative phase of at least two analog signals derived from at least two corresponding sensors disposed on the module; where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes controlling a sampling of data provided by at least one sensor disposed on the module; where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes detecting a peak voltage of a signal provided by a sensor disposed on the module; and/or where controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module includes configuring at least one multiplexer disposed on the module by specifying to the multiplexer a mapping of at least one input and one output.
  • An example system for data collection in an industrial environment includes a data collection system that monitors at least one signal for a set of collection band parameters (e.g., frequency bands) and, upon detection of a parameter from the set of collection band parameters, configures portions of the system and performs collection of data from a set of sensors based on the detected parameter.
  • a set of collection band parameters e.g., frequency bands
  • Example and non-limiting aspects of a system include: where the at least one signal includes an output of a sensor that senses a condition in the industrial environment; where the set of collection band parameters includes values derivable from the at least one signal that are beyond an acceptable range of values; where configuring portions of the system includes configuring a storage facility to accept data collected from the set of sensors; where configuring portions of the system includes configuring a data routing portion including at least one of an analog crosspoint switch, a hierarchical multiplexer, an analog to digital converter, an intelligent sensor, and/or a programmable logic component; where detection of a parameter from the set of collection band parameters includes detecting a trend value for the at least one signal being beyond an acceptable range of trend values; and/or where configuring portions of the system includes implementing a smart band data collection template associated with the detected parameter.
  • An example procedure for data collection in an industrial environment includes an operation to collect data from one or more sensors configured to sense a condition of an industrial machine in the environment; an operation to check the collected data against a set of criteria that define an acceptable range of the condition; and an operation, in response to the collected data being outside the acceptable range of the condition, to collect data from a smart-band group of sensors associated with the sensed condition based on a smart-band collection protocol configured as a smart band data collection template.
  • an example procedure additionally or alternatively includes one or more of the following operations: where being outside the acceptable range of the condition includes a trend of the data from the one or more sensors approaching a maximum value of the acceptable range; where the smart-band group of sensors is defined by the smart band data collection template; where the smart band data collection template includes at least one of a list of sensors to activate, data from the sensors to collect, duration of collection of data from the sensors, and/or a destination location for storing the collected data; where collecting data from a smart-band group of sensors includes configuring at least one data routing resource of the industrial environment that facilitates routing data from the smart band group of sensors to a number of data collectors; and/or where the set of criteria includes a range of trend values derived by processing the data from the one or more sensors.
  • An example procedure for data collection in an industrial environment includes an operation to configure a data collection plan to collect data from a number of system sensors distributed throughout a machine in the industrial environment, the data collection plan based on machine structural information and an indication of data needed to produce an operational deflection shape visualization of the machine; an operation to configure data sensing, routing, and collection resources in the environment based on the data collection plan; and an operation to collect data based on the data collection plan.
  • an example procedure additionally or alternatively includes one or more of the following operations: producing the operational deflection shape visualization based on the collected data; where configuring data sensing, routing, and collection resources is in response to a condition in the environment being detected which is outside of an acceptable range of condition values; where the condition is sensed by a sensor identified in the data collection plan; where the configuring data sensing, routing, and collection resources includes configuring a signal switching resource to concurrently connect the number of system sensors to data collection resources; and/or where the signal switching resource is configured to maintain a connection between a reference sensor and the data collection resources throughout a period of collecting data from the sensors to perform operational deflection shape visualization.
  • An example system for data collection in an industrial environment includes a number of sensors disposed throughout the environment, a multiplexer that connects signals from the number of sensors to data collection resources, a programmable logic component configured to control the sensors and the multiplexer, an operational deflection shape visualization data collection template that identifies sensors of the number of sensors, a multiplexer configuration of the multiplexer, and at least one programmable logic component control parameter for collection of data for performing operational deflection shape visualization, and a processor for processing data collected from the number of sensors in response to execution of the data collection template, the processing resulting in an operational deflection shape visualization of a portion of a machine disposed in the environment.
  • An example system includes: where the operational deflection shape visualization data collection template further identifies a condition in the environment that triggers performing data collection from the identified sensors; where the condition in the environment is sensed by a sensor identified in the operational deflection shape visualization data collection template; where the operational deflection shape visualization data collection template specifies inputs of the multiplexer to concurrently connect to data collection resources; where the multiplexer is configured to maintain a connection between a reference sensor and the data collection resources throughout a period of collecting data from the sensors to perform operational deflection shape visualization; where the operational deflection shape visualization data collection template specifies data collection requirements for performing operational deflection shape visualization for at least one of looseness, soft joints, bending, and/or twisting of a portion of a machine in the industrial environment; and/or where the operational deflection shape visualization data collection template specifies an order and timing of data collection from a number of identified sensors.
  • An example monitoring system for data collection includes: a data collector including a number of sensors each outputting a respective detection signal; a data storage structured to store a collector route template for the number of sensors, where the collector route template includes a sensor collection routine for defining how the number of sensors are coupled to a number of input channels; a data acquisition and analysis circuit structured to receive detection signals via the number of input channels, where each of the detection signals has a corresponding detection value, and to evaluate the number of detection values with respect to a rule; and where the data collector is configured to modify the sensor collection routine based on the evaluation of the number of detection values with respect to the rule.
  • An example system includes: where the system is deployed in part locally on the data collector and in part on an information technology infrastructure component apart and remote from the collector; where each of the number of sensors is located in an industrial environment and senses a corresponding parameter; where the rule is based on an operational state of a machine with respect to which the number of sensors provides information; where the rule is based on an anticipated state of a machine with respect to which the number of sensors provides information; where the rule is based on a detected fault condition of a machine with respect to which the number of sensors provides information; where an evaluation of the number of detection values is based on operational mode routing collection schemes; where the operational mode is at least one of a normal operational mode, a peak operational mode, an idle operational mode, a maintenance operational mode, and/or a power savings operational mode; where the data collector modifies the sensor collection routine because the data analysis circuit determines a change in operating modes; where the change in operating modes includes a
  • An example monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment includes a number of sensors communicatively coupled to a data collector having a controller; a data collection band circuit structured to determine at least one collection parameter for at least one of the number of sensors from which to process output data; a machine learning data analysis circuit structured to receive output data from the at least one of the number of sensors and to learn received output data patterns indicative of a state; and where the data collection band circuit alters the at least one collection parameter for the at least one of the number of sensors based on one or more of the learned received output data patterns and the state.
  • An example monitoring system includes: where the state corresponds to an outcome relating to a machine in the environment; where the state corresponds to an anticipated outcome relating to a machine in the environment; where the state corresponds to an outcome relating to a process in the environment; where the state corresponds to an anticipated outcome relating to a process in the environment; where the collection parameter is a bandwidth parameter; where the collection parameter is used to govern a multiplexing of a number of the input sensors; where the collection parameter is a timing parameter; where the collection parameter relates to a frequency range; where the collection parameter relates to a granularity of collection of sensor data; where the collection parameter is a storage parameter for the collected data; where the machine learning data analysis circuit is structured to learn received output data patterns by being seeded with a model; where the model is a physical model, an operational model, or a system model; where the machine learning data analysis circuit is structured to learn received output data
  • An example monitoring device for data collection in an industrial environment includes a number of sensors communicatively coupled to a controller, the controller including: a data collection band circuit structured to determine at least one subset of the number of sensors from which to process output data; a machine learning data analysis circuit structured to receive output data from the at least one subset of the number of sensors and learn received output data patterns indicative of a state; and where the data collection band circuit alters an aspect of the at least one subset of the number of sensors based on one or more of the learned received output data patterns and the state.
  • An example monitoring device includes: where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters is a number of data points collected from one or more members of the at least one subset of number of sensors; where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters is a frequency of data points collected from one or more members of the at least one subset of number of sensors; where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters is a bandwidth parameter; where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters is a timing parameter; where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters relates to a frequency range; where the aspect that the data collection band circuit alters relates to a granularity of collection of sensor data; and/or where the altered aspect is a storage parameter for the collected data.
  • An example system includes a user interface of a subsystem adapted to collect data in an industrial environment, where the user interface includes: a number of graphical elements representing mechanical portions of an industrial machine, wherein the number of graphical elements is associated with a condition of interest generated by a processor executing a data analysis algorithm; a number of graphical elements representing data collectors in the subsystem adapted to collect data in an industrial environment which collected data used in the data analysis algorithm; and a number of graphical elements representing sensors used to provide the collected data to the data collectors, wherein the graphical elements representing sensors that provide collected that is outside of an acceptable range are indicated through a visual highlight in the user interface.
  • An example system includes: where the condition of interest is selected from a list of conditions of interest presented in the user interface; where the condition of interest is a mechanical failure of at least one of the mechanical portions of the industrial machine; where the mechanical portions include at least one of a bearing, a shaft, a rotor, a housing, and/or a linkage of the industrial machine; where a corresponding acceptable range is available for each sensor; where the user interface further includes highlighting data collectors that collected the data that was outside of the acceptable range; and/or a data collection configuration template that facilitates configuring the data collection subsystem to collect the data for calculating the condition of interest.
  • FIGS 1 through Figure 5 are diagrammatic views that each depicts portions of an overall view of an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) data collection, monitoring and control system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • IoT Internet of Things
  • Figure 6 is a diagrammatic view of a platform including a local data collection system disposed in an industrial environment for collecting data from or about the elements of the environment, such as machines, components, systems, subsystems, ambient conditions, states, workflows, processes, and other elements in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • a local data collection system disposed in an industrial environment for collecting data from or about the elements of the environment, such as machines, components, systems, subsystems, ambient conditions, states, workflows, processes, and other elements in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 7 is a diagrammatic view that depicts elements of an industrial data collection system for collecting analog sensor data in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 8 is a diagrammatic view of a rotating or oscillating machine having a data acquisition module that is configured to collect waveform data in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 9 is a diagrammatic view of an exemplary tri-axial sensor mounted to a motor bearing of an exemplary rotating machine in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 10 and Figure 11 are diagrammatic views of an exemplary tri-axial sensor and a single-axis sensor mounted to an exemplary rotating machine in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 12 is a diagrammatic view of a multiple machines under survey with ensembles of sensors in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 13 is a diagrammatic view of hybrid relational metadata and a binary storage approach in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 14 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving application of cognitive and machine learning systems to data collection and processing in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 15 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving application of a platform having a cognitive data marketplace in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 16 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving application of a self-organizing swarm of data collectors in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 17 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving application of a haptic user interface in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 18 is a diagrammatic view of a multi -format streaming data collection system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 19 is a diagrammatic view of combining legacy and streaming data collection and storage in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 20 is a diagrammatic view of industrial machine sensing using both legacy and updated streamed sensor data processing in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 21 is a diagrammatic view of an industrial machine sensed data processing system that facilitates portal algorithm use and alignment of legacy and streamed sensor data in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 22 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a streaming data acquisition instrument receiving analog sensor signals from an industrial environment connected to a cloud network facility in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 23 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a streaming data acquisition instrument having an alarms module, expert analysis module, and a driver API to facilitate communication with a cloud network facility in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 24 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a streaming data acquisition instrument and first in, first out memory architecture to provide a real time operating system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 25 through Figure 30 are diagrammatic views of screens showing four analog sensor signals, transfer functions between the signals, analysis of each signal, and operating controls to move and edit throughout the streaming signals obtained from the sensors in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 31 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a multiple streaming data acquisition instruments receiving analog sensor signals and digitizing those signals to obtained by a streaming hub server in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 32 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a master raw data server that processes new streaming data and data already extracted and processed in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 33, Figure 34, and Figure 35 are diagrammatic views of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a processing, analysis, report, and archiving server that processes new streaming data and data already extracted and processed in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 36 is a diagrammatic view of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a relation database server and data archives and their connectivity with a cloud network facility in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 37 through Figure 42 are diagrammatic views of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a virtual streaming data acquisition instrument receiving analog sensor signals from an industrial environment connected to a cloud network facility in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 43 through Figure 50 are diagrammatic views of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving data channel methods and systems for data collection of industrial machines in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 51 to Figure 78 are diagrammatic views of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving various neural network embodiments interacting a streaming data acquisition instrument receiving analog sensor signals and an expert analysis module in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figures 79 through Figure 81 are diagrammatic views of components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving a collector of route templates and the routing of data collectors in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 82 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a monitoring system that employs data collection bands in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 83 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a system that employs vibration and other noise in predicting states and outcomes in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 84 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a system for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 85 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an apparatus for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 86 is a schematic flow diagram of a procedure for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 87 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a system for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 88 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an apparatus for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 89 is a schematic flow diagram of a procedure for data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 90 is a diagrammatic view that depicts industry-specific feedback in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 91 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an exemplary user interface for smart band configuration of a system for data collection in an industrial environment is depicted in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 92 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a graphical approach 11300 for back-calculation in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 93 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a wearable haptic user interface device for providing haptic stimuli to a user that is responsive to data collected in an industrial environment by a system adapted to collect data in the industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 94 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an augmented reality display of heat maps based on data collected in an industrial environment by a system adapted to collect data in the environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 95 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an augmented reality display including realtime data overlaying a view of an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 96 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a user interface display and components of a neural net in a graphical user interface in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 97 is a diagrammatic view that depicts data collection system according to some aspects of the present disclosure.
  • Figure 98 is a diagrammatic view that depicts a system for self -organized, network-sensitive data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 99 is a diagrammatic view that depicts of an apparatus for self-organized, network-sensitive data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 100 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an apparatus for self-organized, network-sensitive data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 101 is a diagrammatic view that depicts an apparatus for self-organized, network-sensitive data collection in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 102 and Figure 103 are diagrammatic views that depict embodiments of transmission conditions in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 104 is a diagrammatic view that depicts emboidments of a sensor data transmission protocol in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 105 and Figure 106 are diagrammatic views that depict emboidments of of benchmarking data in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 107 is a diagrammatic view that depicts emboidments of a system for data collection and storage in an industrial environment in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 108 is a diagrammatic view that depicts emboidments of an apparatus for self-organizing storage for data collection for an industrial system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 109 is a diagrammatic view that depicts emboidments of a storage time definition in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 110 is a diagrammatic view that depicts emboidments of a data resolution description in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 111 and Figure 112 diagrammatic views of an apparatus for self -organizing network coding for data collection for an industrial system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 113 and Figure 114 diagrammatic views of data market place interacting with data collection in an industrial system in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • Figure 115 is a diagrammatic view of a smart heating system as an IOT device.
  • Figures 1 through 5 depict portions of an overall view of an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) data collection, monitoring and control system 10.
  • Figure 2 shows an upper left portion of a schematic view of an industrial IoT system 10 of Figures 1-5.
  • Figure 2 includes a mobile ad hoc network ("MANET") 20, which may form a secure, temporal network connection 22 (sometimes connected and sometimes isolated), with a cloud computing environment 30 or other remote networking system, so that network functions may occur over the MANET 20 within the environment, without the need for external networks, but at other times information can be sent to and from a central location.
  • MANET mobile ad hoc network
  • This allows the industrial environment to use the benefits of networking and control technologies, while also providing security, such as preventing cyber-attacks.
  • the MANET 20 may use cognitive radio technologies 40, including ones that form up an equivalent to the IP protocol, such as router 42, MAC 44, and physical layer technologies 46. Also, depicted is network-sensitive or network- aware transport of data over the network to and from a data collection device or a heavy industrial machine.
  • Figure 3 shows the upper right portion of a schematic view of an industrial IoT system 10 of Figures 1 through 5.
  • This includes intelligent data collection systems 102 deployed locally, at the edge of an IoT deployment, where heavy industrial machines are located.
  • Figure 3 shows interfaces for data collection, including multi-sensory interfaces, tablets, smartphones 58, and the like.
  • Figure 3 also shows data pools 60 that may collect data published by machines or sensors that detect conditions of machines, such as for later consumption by local or remote intelligence.
  • a distributed ledger system 62 may distribute storage across the local storage of various elements of the environment, or more broadly throughout the system.
  • Figure 1 shows a center portion of a schematic view of an industrial IoT system of Figures 1 through 5.
  • This includes use of network coding (including self -organizing network coding) that configures a network coding model based on feedback measures, network conditions, or the like, for highly efficient transport of large amounts of data across the network to and from data collection systems and the cloud.
  • network coding including self -organizing network coding
  • This includes use of network coding (including self -organizing network coding) that configures a network coding model based on feedback measures, network conditions, or the like, for highly efficient transport of large amounts of data across the network to and from data collection systems and the cloud.
  • In the cloud or on an enterprise owner's or operator's premises may be deployed a wide range of capabilities for intelligence, analytics, remote control, remote operation, remote optimization, and the like, including a wide range of capabilities depicted in Figure 1.
  • Figures 1 , 4, and 5 show the lower right corner of a schematic view of an industrial IoT system of Figures 1 through 5.
  • This includes a programmatic data marketplace 70 which may be a self -organizing marketplace, such as for making available data that is collected in industrial environments, such as from data collectors, data pools, distributed ledgers, and other elements disclosed herein and depicted in Figures 1 through 5.
  • Figures 1, 4, and 5 also show on-device sensor fusion 80, such as for storing on a device data from multiple analog sensors 82, which may be analyzed locally or in the cloud, such as by machine learning 84, including by training a machine based on initial models created by humans that are augmented by providing feedback (such as based on measures of success) when operating the methods and systems disclosed herein. Additional detail on the various components and sub -components of Figures 1 through 5 is provided throughout this disclosure.
  • the platform 100 may include a local data collection system 102, which may be disposed in an environment 104, such as an industrial environment, for collecting data from or about the elements of the environment, such as machines, components, systems, sub-systems, ambient conditions, states, workflows, processes, and other elements.
  • a local data collection system 102 which may be disposed in an environment 104, such as an industrial environment, for collecting data from or about the elements of the environment, such as machines, components, systems, sub-systems, ambient conditions, states, workflows, processes, and other elements.
  • the platform 100 may connect to or include portions of the industrial IoT data collection, monitoring and control system 10 depicted in Figures 1-5 .
  • the platform 100 may include a network data transport system 108, such as for transporting data to and from the local data collection system 102 over a network 110, such as to a host processing system 1 12, such as one that is disposed in a cloud computing environment or on the premises of an enterprise, or that consists of distributed components that interact with each other to process data collected by the local data collection system 102.
  • the host processing system 112 may include various systems, components, methods, processes, facilities, and the like for enabling automated, or automation-assisted processing of the data, such as for monitoring one or more environments 104 or networks 110 or for remotely controlling one or more elements in a local environment 104 or in a network 110.
  • the platform 100 may include one or more local autonomous systems 114, such as for enabling autonomous behavior, such as reflecting artificial, or machine-based intelligence or such as enabling automated action based on the applications of a set of rules or models upon input data from the local data collection system 102 or from one or more input sources 116, which may comprise information feeds and inputs from a wide array of sources, including ones in the local environment 104, in a network 110, in the host processing system 112, or in one or more external systems, databases, or the like.
  • the data collection system 102 may interface with a crosspoint switch 130.
  • the platform 100 may include one or more intelligent systems 118, which may be disposed in, integrated with, or acting as inputs to one or more components of the platform 100. Details of these and other components of the platform 100 are provided throughout this disclosure.
  • Intelligent systems 118 may include cognitive systems 120, such as enabling a degree of cognitive behavior as a result of the coordination of processing elements, such as mesh, peer-to-peer, ring, serial and other architectures, where one or more node elements is coordinated with other node elements to provide collective, coordinated behavior to assist in processing, communication, data collection, or the like.
  • the MANET 20 depicted in Figure 2 may also use cognitive radio technologies, including ones that form up an equivalent to the IP protocol, such as router 42, MAC 44, and physical layer technologies 46.
  • the cognitive system technology stack can include examples disclosed in U.S. Patent Number 8,060,017 to Schlicht et al., issued 15 November 2011 and hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
  • Intelligent systems may include machine learning systems 122, such as for learning on one or more data sets.
  • the one or may data sets may include information collections using local data collection systems 102 or other information from input sources 116, such as to recognize states, objects, events, patterns, conditions, or the like that may in turn be used for processing by the processing system 112 as inputs to components of the platform 100 and portions of the industrial IoT data collection, monitoring and control system 10, or the like.
  • Learning may be human-supervised or fully-automated, such as using one or more input sources 116 to provide a data set, along with information about the item to be learned.
  • Machine learning may use one or more models, rules, semantic understandings, workflows, or other structured or semi-structured understanding of the world, such as for automated optimization of control of a system or process based on feedback or feed forward to an operating model for the system or process.
  • One such machine learning technique for semantic and contextual understandings, workflows, or other structured or semi-structured understandings is disclosed in U.S. Patent Number 8,200,775 to Moore, issued 12 June 2012 and hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
  • Machine learning may be used to improve the foregoing, such as by adjusting one or more weights, structures, rules, or the like (such as changing a function within a model) based on feedback (such as regarding the success of a model in a given situation) or based on iteration (such as in a recursive process).
  • machine learning may also be undertaken in the absence of an underlying model; that is, input sources may be weighted, structured, or the like within a machine learning facility without regard to any a priori understanding of structure, and outcomes (such as based on measures of success at accomplishing various desired objectives) can be serially fed to the machine learning system to allow it to learn how to achieve the targeted objectives.
  • the system may learn to recognize faults, to recognize patterns, to develop models or functions, to develop rules, to optimize performance, to minimize failure rates, to optimize profits, to optimize resource utilization, to optimize flow (such as of traffic), or to optimize many other parameters that may be relevant to successful outcomes (such as in a wide range of environments).
  • Machine learning may use genetic programming techniques, such as promoting or demoting one or more input sources, structures, data types, objects, weights, nodes, links, or other factors based on feedback (such that successful elements emerge over a series of generations).
  • alternative available sensor inputs for a data collection system 102 may be arranged in alternative configurations and permutations, such that the system may, using genetic programming techniques over a series of data collection events, determine what permutations provide successful outcomes based on various conditions (such as conditions of components of the platform 100, conditions of the network 110, conditions of a data collection system 102, conditions of an environment 104), or the like.
  • local machine learning may turn on or off one or more sensors in a multi-sensor data collector 102 in permutations over time, while tracking success outcomes (such as contributing to success in predicting a failure, contributing to a performance indicator (such as efficiency, effectiveness, return on investment, yield, or the like), contributing to optimization of one or more parameters, identification of a pattern (such as relating to a threat, a failure mode, a success mode, or the like) or the like.
  • a system may learn what sets of sensors should be turned on or off under given conditions to achieve the highest value utilization of a data collector 102.
  • similar techniques may be used to handle optimization of transport of data in the platform 100 (such as in the network 110) by using genetic programming or other machine learning techniques to learn to configure network elements (such as configuring network transport paths, configuring network coding types and architectures, configuring network security elements), and the like.
  • the local data collection system 102 may include a high-performance, multi-sensor data collector having a number of novel features for collection and processing of analog and other sensor data.
  • a local data collection system 102 may be deployed to the industrial facilities depicted in Figure 3.
  • a local data collection system 102 may also be deployed monitor other machines such as the machine 2300 in Figure 9 and Figure 10, the machines 2400, 2600, 2800, 2950, 3000 depicted in Figure 12, and the machines 3202, 3204 depicted in Figure 13.
  • the data collection system 102 may have on board intelligent systems (such as for learning to optimize the configuration and operation of the data collector, such as configuring permutations and combinations of sensors based on contexts and conditions).
  • the data collection system 102 includes a crosspoint switch 130.
  • Automated, intelligent configuration of the local data collection system 102 may be based on a variety of types of information, such as from various input sources, such as based on available power, power requirements of sensors, the value of the data collected (such as based on feedback information from other elements of the platform 100), the relative value of information (such as based on the availability of other sources of the same or similar information), power availability (such as for powering sensors), network conditions, ambient conditions, operating states, operating contexts, operating events, and many others.
  • various input sources such as based on available power, power requirements of sensors, the value of the data collected (such as based on feedback information from other elements of the platform 100), the relative value of information (such as based on the availability of other sources of the same or similar information), power availability (such as for powering sensors), network conditions, ambient conditions, operating states, operating contexts, operating events, and many others.
  • FIG. 7 shows elements and sub-components of a data collection and analysis system 1100 for sensor data (such as analog sensor data) collected in industrial environments.
  • the Mux 1104 is made up of a Mux main board 1103 and a Mux optionboard 1108.
  • the main board is where the sensors connect to the system. These connections are on top to enable ease of installation.
  • the Mux option board 1108 has the male headers, which mesh together with the female header on the main Mux board 1103. This enables them to be stacked on top of each other taking up less real estate.
  • the Mux 1104 then connects to the mother (e.g., with 4 simultaneous channels) and daughter (e.g., with 4 additional channels for 8 total channels) analog boards 1110 via cables where some of the signal conditioning (such as hardware integration) occurs.
  • the signals then move from the analog boards 1110 to the anti-aliasing board where some of the potential aliasing is removed.
  • the rest of the aliasing is done on the delta sigma board 1112, which it connects to through cables.
  • the delta sigma board 1112 provides more aliasing protection along with other conditioning and digitizing of the signal.
  • the data moves to the JennieTM board 1114 for more digitizing as well as communication to a computer 1128 via USB or Ethernet for additional analysis.
  • the JennieTM board 1114 may be replaced with a pic board 1118 for more advanced and efficient data collection as well as communication. Both the JennieTM board 1114 and the pic board 1118 may feed to a self sufficient DAQ 1122.
  • display software 1102 can manipulate the data to show trending, spectra, waveform, statistics, and analytics.
  • the system is meant to take in all types of data from volts to 4-20 mA signals.
  • open formats of data storage and communication may be used.
  • certain portions of the system may be proprietary especially some of research and data associated with the analytics and reporting.
  • smart band analysis is a way to break data down into easily analyzed parts that can be combined with other smart bands to make new more simplified yet sophisticated analytics.
  • this unique information is taken and graphics are used to depict the conditions because picture depictions are more helpful to the user.
  • complicated programs and user interfaces are simplified so that any user can manipulate the data like an expert.
  • the system in essence works in a big loop. It starts in software with a general user interface.
  • GUI 1124 Most, if not all, online systems require the OEM to create or develop the system GUI 1124.
  • rapid route creation takes advantage of hierarchical templates.
  • a GUI is created so any general user can populate the information itself with simple templates. Once the templates are created the user can copy and paste whatever the user needs. In addition, users can develop their own templates for future ease of use and institutionalizing the knowledge.
  • the user can then start the system acquiring data. In some applications, rotating machinery can build up an electric charge which can harm electrical equipment.
  • a unique electrostatic protection for trigger and vibration inputs is placed upfront on the Mux and DAQ hardware in order to dissipate this electric charge as the signal passed from the sensor to the hardware.
  • the Mux and analog board also can offer upfront circuitry and wider traces in high-amperage input capability using solid state relays and design topology that enables the system to handle high amperage inputs if necessary.
  • an important part at the front of the Mux is up front signal conditioning on Mux for improved signal- to-noise ratio which provides upfront signal conditioning.
  • Most multiplexers are after thoughts and the original equipment manufacturers usually do not worry or even think about the quality of the signal coming from it. As a result, the signals quality can drop as much as 30 dB or more. Every system is only as strong as its weakest link, so no matter if you have a 24 bit DAQ that has a S/N ratio of 110 dB, your signal quality has already been lost through the Mux. If the signal to noise ratio has dropped to 80 dB in the Mux, it may not be much better than a 16-bit system from 20 years ago.
  • the multiplexer in addition to providing a better signal, the multiplexer also can play a key role in enhancing a system. Truly continuous systems monitor every sensor all the time but these systems are very expensive. Multiplexer systems can usually only monitor a set number of channels at one time and switches from bank to bank from a larger set of sensors. As a result, the sensors not being collected on are not being monitored so if a level increases the user may never know.
  • a multiplexer continuous monitor alarming feature provides a continuous monitoring alarming multiplexer by placing circuitry on the multiplexer that can measure levels against known alarms even when the data acquisition ("DAQ") is not monitoring the channel. This in essence makes the system continuous without the ability to instantly capture data on the problem like a true continuous system.
  • DAQ data acquisition
  • multiplexers Another restriction of multiplexers is that they often have a limited number of channels.
  • use of distributed complex programmable logic device (“CPLD") chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple Mux and data acquisition sections enables a CPLD to control multiple mux and DAQs so that there is no limit to the number of channels a system can handle.
  • multiplexers and DAQs can stack together offering additional input and output channels to the system.
  • multiplexers Besides having limited number of channels, multiplexers also usually can only collect sensors in the same bank. For detailed analysis, this is very limiting as there is tremendous value in being able to review data simultaneously from sensors on the same machine.
  • use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting variable groups of vibration input channels addresses this issue by using a crosspoint switch which is often used in the phone industry and provides a matrix circuit so the system can access any set of eight channels from the total number of input sensors.
  • the system provides all the same capabilities as onsite will allow phase-lock-loop band pass tracking filter method for obtaining slow-speed revolutions per minute ("RPM") and phase for balancing purposes to remotely balance slow speed machinery such as in paper mills as well as offer additional analysis from its data.
  • RPM revolutions per minute
  • ability to control multiple multiplexers with use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple Mux and data acquisition sections is enhanced with a hierarchical multiplexer which allows for multiple DAQ to collect data from multiple multiplexers. In embodiments, this allows for faster data collection as well as more channels of simultaneous data collection which enhances analysis.
  • the Mux may be configured slightly to make it portable and use data acquisition parking features, which turns SV3X DAQ into a protect system.
  • a section of the analog board allows routing of a trigger channel, either raw or buffered, into other analog channels. This allows users to route the trigger to any of the channels for analysis and trouble shooting.
  • the signals move into the delta-sigma board where precise voltage reference for A/D zero reference offers more accurate direct current sensor data.
  • the delta sigma's high speeds also provide for using higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize antialiasing filter requirements to oversample the data at a higher input which minimizes anti-aliasing requirements.
  • a CPLD may be used as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma A/D to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling so the delta-sigma A/D can achieve lower sampling rates without digitally resampling the data.
  • the data then moves from the delta-sigma board to the JennieTM board where digital derivation of phase relative to input and trigger channels using on-board timers digitally derives the phase from the input signal and the trigger using on board timers.
  • the JennieTM board also has the ability to store calibration data and system maintenance repair history data in an on-board card set.
  • the JennieTM board will enable acquiring long blocks of data at high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates so it can stream data and acquire long blocks of data for advanced analysis in the future.
  • the software has a number of enhancements that improve the systems analytic capabilities.
  • rapid route creation takes advantage of hierarchical templates and provides rapid route creation of all the equipment using simple templates which also speeds up the software deployment.
  • the software will be used to add intelligence to the system. It will start with an expert system GUIs graphical approach to defining smart bands and diagnoses for the expert system, which will offer a graphical expert system with simplified user interface so anyone can develop complex analytics. In embodiments, this user interface will revolve around smart bands, which are a simplified approach to complex yet flexible analytics for the general user.
  • the smart bands will pair with a self-learning neural network for an even more advanced analytical approach. In embodiments, this system will also use the machine's hierarchy for additional analytical insight. One critical part of predictive maintenance is the ability to learn from known information during repairs or inspections. In embodiments, graphical approaches for back calculations may improve the smart bands and correlations based on a known fault or problem.
  • torsional vibration detection and analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis provides an advanced torsional vibration analysis for a more comprehensive way to diagnose machinery where torsional forces are relevant (such as machinery with rotating components).
  • the system can deploy a number of intelligent capabilities on its own for better data and more comprehensive analysis.
  • this intelligence will start with a smart route where the software's smart route can adapt the sensors it collects simultaneously in order to gain additional correlative intelligence.
  • smart operational data store allows the system to elect to gather operational deflection shape analysis in order to further examine the machinery condition.
  • adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring allow the system to change the scheduled data collected for full spectral analysis across a number (e.g., eight), of correlative channels.
  • the systems intelligence will provide data to enable extended statistics capabilities for continuous monitoring as well as ambient local vibration for analysis that combines ambient temperature and local temperature and vibration levels changes for identifying machinery issues.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a self-sufficient DAQ box.
  • a data acquisition device may be controlled by a personal computer (PC) to implement the desired data acquisition commands.
  • the system has the ability to be self-sufficient and can acquire, process, analyze and monitor independent of external PC control.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include secure digital (SD) card storage.
  • SD secure digital
  • significant additional storage capability is provided utilizing an SD card such as cameras, smart phones, and so on. This can prove critical for monitoring applications where critical data can be stored permanently. Also, if a power failure should occur, the most recent data may be stored despite the fact that it was not off-loaded to another system.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a DAQ system.
  • a current trend has been to make DAQ systems as communicative as possible with the outside world usually in the form of networks including wireless.
  • a dedicated bus to control a DAQ system with either a microprocessor or microcontroller/microprocessor paired with a PC
  • the demands for networking are much greater and so it is out of this environment that arises this new design prototype.
  • multiple microprocessor/microcontrollers or dedicated processors may be utilized to carry out various aspects of this increase in DAQ functionality with one or more processor units focused primarily on the communication aspects with the outside world.
  • a specialized microcontroller/microprocessor is designated for all communications with the outside. These include USB, Ethernet and wireless with the ability to provide an IP address or addresses in order to host a webpage. All communications with the outside world are then accomplished using a simple text based menu. The usual array of commands (in practice more than a hundred) such as InitializeCard, AcquireData, StopAcquisition, RetrieveCalibration Info, and so on, would be provided.
  • FPGAs field-programmable gate array
  • DSP digital signal processor
  • microprocessors micro-controllers
  • this subsystem will communicate via a specialized hardware bus with the communication processing section. It will be facilitated with dual-port memory, semaphore logic, and so on. This embodiment will not only provide a marked improvement in efficiency but can significantly improve the processing capability, including the streaming of the data as well other high-end analytical techniques.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include radio frequency identification (“RF ID”) and inclinometer on accelerometer or RF ID on other sensors so the sensor can tell the system/software what machine/bearing and direction it is attached to and can automatically set it up in the software to store the data without the user telling it.
  • RF ID radio frequency identification
  • users could, in turn, put the system on any machine or machines and the system would automatically set itself up and be ready for data collection in seconds
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include ultrasonic online monitoring by placing ultrasonic sensors inside transformers, motor control centers, breakers and the like where the system will monitor via a sound spectrum continuously looking for patterns that identify arcing, corona and other electrical issues indicating a break down or issue.
  • an analysis engine will be used in ultrasonic online monitoring as well as identifying other faults by combining this data with other parameters such as vibration, temperature, pressure, heat flux, magnetic fields, electrical fields, currents, voltage, capacitance, inductance, and combinations (e.g., simple ratios) of the same, among many others.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting variable groups of vibration input channels.
  • an analog crosspoint switch for collecting variable groups of vibration input channels.
  • Other types of cross channel analyses such as cross-correlation, transfer functions, Operating Deflection Shape (“ODS”) may also be performed.
  • Current systems using conventional fixed bank multiplexers can only compare a limited number of channels (based on the number of channels per bank) that were assigned to a particular group at the time of installation.
  • the only way to provide some flexibility is to either overlap channels or incorporate lots of redundancy in the system both of which can add considerable expense (in some cases an exponential increase in cost versus flexibility).
  • the simplest Mux design selects one of many inputs and routes it into a single output line.
  • a banked design would consist of a group of these simple building blocks, each handling a fixed group of inputs and routing to its respective output.
  • the inputs are not overlapping so that the input of one Mux grouping cannot be routed into another.
  • a crosspoint Mux allows the user to assign any input to any output.
  • crosspoint multiplexers were used for specialized purposes such as RGB digital video applications and were as a practical matter too noisy for analog applications such as vibration analysis; however more recent advances in the technology now make it feasible.
  • Another advantage of the crosspoint Mux is the ability to disable outputs by putting them into a high impedance state. This is ideal for an output bus so that multiple Mux cards may be stacked and their output buses joined together without the need for bus switches.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple Mux and data acquisition sections. Interfacing to multiple types of predictive maintenance and vibration transducers requires a great deal of switching. This includes AC/DC coupling, 4-20 interfacing, integrated electronic piezoelectric transducer, channel power-down (for conserving op amp power), single-ended or differential grounding options, and so on. Also required is the control of digital pots for range and gain control, switches for hardware integration, AA filtering and triggering. This logic can be performed by a series of CPLD chips strategically located for the tasks they control. A single giant CPLD requires long circuit routes with a great deal of density at the single giant CPLD.
  • distributed CPLDs not only address these concerns but offer a great deal of flexibility.
  • a bus is created where each CPLD that has a fixed assignment has its own unique device address. For multiple boards (e.g., for multiple Mux boards), jumpers are provided for setting multiple addresses. In another example, three bits permit up to 8 boards that are jumper configurable.
  • a bus protocol is defined such that each CPLD on the bus can either be addressed individually or as a group.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include power-down of analog channels when not in use as well other power-saving measures including powering down of component boards.
  • power-down of analog signal processing op-amps for non-selected channels as well as the ability to power down component boards and other hardware by the low-level firmware for the DAQ system makes high-level application control with respect to power-saving capabilities relatively easy. Explicit control of the hardware is always possible but not required by default.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include routing of trigger channel either raw or buffered into other analog channels.
  • Many systems have trigger channels for the purposes of determining relative phase between various input data sets or for acquiring significant data without the needless repetition of unwanted input.
  • digitally controlled relays are used to switch either the raw or buffered trigger signal into one of the input channels.
  • it is extremely useful to examine the quality of the triggering pulse because it is often corrupted for a variety of reasons. These reasons include inadequate placement of the trigger sensor, wiring issues, faulty setup issues such as a dirty piece of reflective tape if using an optical sensor, and so on.
  • the ability to look at either the raw or buffered signal offers an excellent diagnostic or debugging vehicle. It also can offer some improved phase analysis capability by making use of the recorded data signal for various signal processing techniques such as variable speed filtering algorithms.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include using higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • higher input oversampling rates for delta-sigma A/D are used for lower sampling rate output data to minimize the AA filtering requirements.
  • Lower oversampling rates can be used for higher sampling rates. For example, a 3 rd order AA filter set for the lowest sampling requirement for 256 Hz (Fmax of 100 Hz) is then adequate for Fmax ranges of 200 and 500 Hz. Another higher-cutoff AA filter can then be used for Fmax ranges from 1 kHz and higher (with a secondary filter kicking in at 2.56x the highest sampling rate of 128 kHz).
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include use of a CPLD as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma A/D to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a high- frequency crystal reference can be divided down to lower frequencies by employing a CPLD as a programmable clock divider. The accuracy of the divided down lower frequencies is even more accurate than the original source relative to their longer time periods. This also minimizes or removes the need for resampling processing by the delta-sigma A/D.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include signal processing firmware/hardware.
  • long blocks of data are acquired at high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • sampling rate and data length may vary from route point to point based on the specific mechanical analysis requirements at hand.
  • a motor may require a relatively low sampling rate with high resolution to distinguish running speed harmonics from line frequency harmonics. The practical trade-off here though is that it takes more collection time to achieve this improved resolution.
  • a long data length of data can be collected at the highest practical sampling rate (e.g., 102.4 kHz; corresponding to a 40 kHz Fmax) and stored. This long block of data can be acquired in the same amount of time as the shorter length of the lower sampling rates utilized by a priori methods so that there is no effective delay added to the sampling at the measurement point, always a concern in route collection.
  • analog tape recording of data is digitally simulated with such a precision that it can be in effect considered continuous or "analog" for many purposes, including for purposes of embodiments of the present disclosure, except where context indicates otherwise.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include rapid route creation taking advantage of hierarchical templates.
  • data monitoring points are associated a variety of attributes including the following categories: transducer attributes, data collection settings, machinery parameters and operating parameters.
  • the transducer attributes would include probe type, probe mounting type and probe mounting direction or axis orientation.
  • Data collection attributes associated with the measurement would involve a sampling rate, data length, integrated electronic piezoelectric probe power and coupling requirements, hardware integration requirements, 4-20 or voltage interfacing, range and gain settings (if applicable), filter requirements, and so on.
  • Machinery parametric requirements relative to the specific point would include such items as operating speed, bearing type, bearing parametric data which for a rolling element bearing includes the pitch diameter, number of balls, inner race, and outer-race diameters. For a tilting pad bearing, this would include the number of pads and so on.
  • needed parameters would include, for example, the number of gear teeth on each of the gears.
  • induction motors it would include the number of rotor bars and poles; for compressors, the number of blades and/or vanes; for fans, the number of blades.
  • the number of belts as well as the relevant belt-passing frequencies may be calculated from the dimensions of the pulleys and pulley center-to-center distance.
  • the coupling type and number of teeth in a geared coupling may be necessary, and so on.
  • Operating parametric data would include operating load, which may be expressed in megawatts, flow (either air or fluid), percentage, horsepower, feet-per-minute, and so on.
  • Operating temperatures both ambient and operational, pressures, humidity, and so on, may also be relevant. As can be seen, the setup information required for an individual measurement point can be quite large. It is also crucial to performing any legitimate analysis of the data.
  • hierarchical nature can be utilized when copying data in the form of templates.
  • hierarchical storage structure suitable for many purposes is defined from general to specific of company, plant or site, unit or process, machine, equipment, shaft element, bearing, and transducer. It is much easier to copy data associated with a particular machine, piece of equipment, shaft element or bearing than it is to copy only at the lowest transducer level.
  • the system not only stores data in this hierarchical fashion, but robustly supports the rapid copying of data using these hierarchical templates. Similarity of elements at specific hierarchical levels lends itself to effective data storage in hierarchical format.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include smart bands.
  • Smart bands refer to any processed signal characteristics derived from any dynamic input or group of inputs for the purposes of analyzing the data and achieving the correct diagnoses.
  • smart bands may even include mini or relatively simple diagnoses for the purposes of achieving a more robust and complex one.
  • Alarm Bands have been used to define spectral frequency bands of interest for the purposes of analyzing and/or trending significant vibration patterns.
  • the Alarm Band typically consists of a spectral (amplitude plotted against frequency) region defined between a low and high frequency border. The amplitude between these borders is summed in the same manner for which an overall amplitude is calculated.
  • a Smart Band is more flexible in that it not only refers to a specific frequency band but can also refer to a group of spectral peaks such as the harmonics of a single peak, a true-peak level or crest factor derived from a time waveform, an overall derived from a vibration envelope spectrum or other specialized signal analysis technique or a logical combination (AND, OR, XOR, etc.) of these signal attributes.
  • a myriad assortment of other parametric data including system load, motor voltage and phase information, bearing temperature, flow rates, and the like, can likewise be used as the basis for forming additional smart bands.
  • Smart Band symptoms may be used as building blocks for an expert system whose engine would utilize these inputs to derive diagnoses. Some of these mini-diagnoses may then in turn be used as Smart-Band symptoms (smart bands can include even diagnoses) for more generalized diagnoses.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a neural net expert system using smart bands.
  • Typical vibration analysis engines are rule-based (i.e. they use a list of expert rules which, when met, trigger specific diagnoses).
  • a neural approach utilizes the weighted triggering of multiple input stimuli into smaller analytical engines or neurons which in turn feed a simplified weighted output to other neurons. The output of these neurons can be also classified as smart bands which in turn feed other neurons. This produces a more layered approach to expert diagnosing as opposed to the one-shot approach of a rule-based system.
  • the expert system utilizes this neural approach using smart bands; however, it does not preclude rule-based diagnoses being reclassified as smart bands as further stimuli to be utilized by the expert system. From this point-of-view, it can be overviewed as a hybrid approach, although at the highest level it is essentially neural.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include use of database hierarchy in analysis, smart band symptoms and diagnoses may be assigned to various hierarchical database levels.
  • a smart band may be called “Looseness” at the bearing level, trigger “Looseness” at the equipment level, and trigger “Looseness” at the machine level.
  • Another example would be having a smart band diagnosis called “Horizontal Plane Phase Flip” across a coupling and generate a smart band diagnosis of "Vertical Coupling Misalignment” at the machine level.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include expert system GUIs.
  • the system undertakes a graphical approach to defining smart bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • the entry of symptoms, rules, or more generally smart bands for creating a particular machine diagnosis, can be tedious and time consuming.
  • One means of making the process more expedient and efficient is to provide a graphical means by use of wiring.
  • the proposed graphical interface consists of four major components: a symptom parts bin, diagnoses bin, tools bin, and graphical wiring area ("GWA").
  • a symptom parts bin includes various spectral, waveform, envelope and any type of signal processing characteristic or grouping of characteristics such as a spectral peak, spectral harmonic, waveform true-peak, waveform crest-factor, spectral alarm band, and so on.
  • Each part may be assigned additional properties.
  • a spectral peak part may be assigned a frequency or order (multiple) of running speed.
  • Some parts may be pre-defined or user defined such as a lx, 2x, 3x running speed, lx, 2x, 3x gear mesh, lx, 2x, 3x blade pass, number of motor rotor bars x running speed, and so on.
  • a diagnoses bin includes various pre-defined as well as user-defined diagnoses such as misalignment, imbalance, looseness, bearing faults, and so on. Like parts, diagnoses may also be used as parts for the purposes of building more complex diagnoses.
  • a tools bin includes logical operations such as AND, OR, XOR, etc. or other ways of combining the various parts listed above such as Find Max, Find Min, Interpolate, Average, other Statistical Operations, etc.
  • a graphical wiring area includes parts from the parts bin or diagnoses from the diagnoses bin and may be combined using tools to create diagnoses. The various parts, tools and diagnoses will be represented with icons which are simply graphically wired together in the desired manner.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include an expert system GUIs graphical approach to defining smart bands and diagnoses for the Expert System.
  • the entry of symptoms, rules or more generally smart bands, for creating a particular machine diagnosis, can be tedious and time consuming.
  • One means of making the process more expedient and efficient is to provide a graphical means by use of wiring.
  • a graphical interface may consist of four major components: a symptom parts bin, diagnoses bin, tools bin and graphical wiring area ("GWA").
  • the symptom parts bin consists of various spectral, waveform, envelope and any type of signal processing characteristic or grouping of characteristics such as a spectral peak, spectral harmonic, waveform true-peak, waveform crest-factor, spectral alarm band, and so on.
  • Each part may be assigned additional properties; for example, a spectral peak part may be assigned a frequency or order (multiple) of running speed.
  • Some parts may be predefined or user defined such as a lx, 2x, 3x running speed, lx, 2x, 3x gear mesh, lx, 2x, 3x blade pass, number of motor rotor bars x running speed, and so on.
  • the diagnoses bin consists of various pre-defined as well as user-defined diagnoses such as misalignment, imbalance, looseness, bearing faults, and so on. Like parts, diagnoses may also be used as parts for the purposes of building more complex diagnoses.
  • the tools bin consists of logical operations such as AND, OR, XOR, etc., or other ways of combining the various parts listed above such as find fax, find min, interpolate, average, other statistical operations, etc.
  • a GWA may consist of, in general, parts from the parts bin or diagnoses from the diagnoses bin which are wired together using tools to create diagnoses.
  • the various parts, tools and diagnoses will be represented with icons, which are simply graphically wired together in the desired manor.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • the expert system also provides the opportunity for the system to learn. If one already knows that a unique set of stimuli or smart bands corresponds to a specific fault or diagnosis, then it is possible to back-calculate a set of coefficients that when applied to a future set of similar stimuli would arrive at the same diagnosis. In embodiments, if there are multiple sets of data a best-fit approach may be used. Unlike the smart band GUI, this embodiment will self-generate a wiring diagram. In embodiments, the user may tailor the back-propagation approach settings and use a database browser to match specific sets of data with the desired diagnoses.
  • the desired diagnoses may be created or custom tailored with a smart band GUI.
  • a user may press the GENERATE button and a dynamic wiring of the symptom-to-diagnosis may appear on the screen as it works through the algorithms to achieve the best fit.
  • a variety of statistics are presented which detail how well the mapping process proceeded. In some cases, no mapping may be achieved if, for example, the input data was all zero or the wrong data (mistakenly assigned) and so on.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include bearing analysis methods.
  • bearing analysis methods may be used in conjunction with a computer aided design ("CAD"), predictive deconvolution, minimum variance distortionless response (“MVDR”) and spectrum sum-of-harmonics.
  • CAD computer aided design
  • MVDR minimum variance distortionless response
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a signal is digitally integrated using software, essentially the spectral low-end frequency data has its amplitude multiplied by a function which quickly blows up as it approaches zero and creates what is known in the industry as a "ski-slope" effect.
  • the amplitude of the ski-slope is essentially the noise floor of the instrument.
  • the simple remedy for this is the traditional hardware integrator, which can perform at signal-to-noise ratios much greater than that of an already digitized signal. It can also limit the amplification factor to a reasonable level so that multiplication by very large numbers is essentially prohibited.
  • the hardware integrator has a fixed noise floor that although low floor does not scale down with the now lower amplitude high- frequency data.
  • the same digital multiplication of a digitized high-frequency signal also scales down the noise floor proportionally.
  • hardware integration may be used below the point of unity gain where (at a value usually determined by units and/or desired signal to noise ratio based on gain) and software integration may be used above the value of unity gain to produce an ideal result. In embodiments, this integration is performed in the frequency domain.
  • the resulting hybrid data can then be transformed back into a waveform which should be far superior in signal- to-noise ratio when compared to either hardware integrated or software integrated data.
  • the strengths of hardware integration are used in conjunction with those of digital software integration to achieve the maximum signal-to- noise ratio.
  • the first order gradual hardware integrator high pass filter along with curve fitting allow some relatively low frequency data to get through while reducing or eliminating the noise, allowing very useful analytical data that steep filters kill to be salvaged.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring. Continuous monitoring is often performed with an up-front Mux whose purpose it is to select a few channels of data among many to feed the hardware signal processing, A/D, and processing components of a DAQ system. This is done primarily out of practical cost considerations. The tradeoff is that all of the points are not monitored continuously (although they may be monitored to a lesser extent via alternative hardware methods).
  • multiple scheduling levels are provided. In embodiments, at the lowest level, which is continuous for the most part, all of the measurement points will be cycled through in round-robin fashion. For example, if it takes 30 seconds to acquire and process a measurement point and there are 30 points, then each point is serviced once every 15 minutes.
  • Embodiments may take advantage of the increased processing power of a PC and the PC can temporarily suspend the round-robin route collection (with its multiple tiers of collection) process and stream the required amount of data for a point of its choosing.
  • Embodiments may include various advanced processing techniques such as envelope processing, wavelet analysis, as well as many other signal processing techniques.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include data acquisition parking features.
  • a data acquisition box used for route collection, real time analysis and in general as an acquisition instrument can be detached from its PC (tablet or otherwise) and powered by an external power supply or suitable battery.
  • the data collector still retains continuous monitoring capability and its on-board firmware can implement dedicated monitoring functions for an extended period of time or can be controlled remotely for further analysis.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include extended statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include ambient sensing plus local sensing plus vibration for analysis.
  • ambient environmental temperature and pressure, sensed temperature and pressure may be combined with long/medium term vibration analysis for prediction of any of a range of conditions or characteristics.
  • Variants may add infrared sensing, infrared thermography, ultrasound, and many other types of sensors and input types in combination with vibration or with each other.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a smart route.
  • the continuous monitoring system's software will adapt/adjust the data collection sequence based on statistics, analytics, data alarms and dynamic analysis. Typically, the route is set based on the channels the sensors are attached to.
  • the Mux can combine any input Mux channels to the (e.g., eight) output channels.
  • the Mux can combine any input Mux channels to the (e.g., eight) output channels.
  • channels go into alarm or the system identifies key deviations, it will pause the normal route set in the software to gather specific simultaneous data, from the channels sharing key statistical changes, for more advanced analysis.
  • Embodiments include conducting a smart ODS or smart transfer function.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include smart ODS and one or more transfer functions.
  • an ODS, a transfer function, or other special tests on all the vibration sensors attached to a machine/structure can be performed and show exactly how the machine's points are moving in relationship to each other.
  • 40-50 kHz and longer data lengths e.g., at least one minute
  • the system will be able to determine, based on the data/statistics/analytics to use, the smart route feature that breaks from the standard route and conducts an ODS across a machine, structure or multiple machines and structures that might show a correlation because the conditions/data directs it.
  • the transfer functions there may be an impact hammer used on one channel and compared against other vibration sensors on the machine.
  • the system may use the condition changes such as load, speed, temperature or other changes in the machine or system to conduct the transfer function.
  • different transfer functions may be compared to each other over time.
  • difference transfer functions may be strung together like a movie that may show how the machinery fault changes, such as a bearing that could show how it moves through the four stages of bearing failure and so on.
  • Embodiments of the methods and systems disclosed herein may include a hierarchical Mux.
  • a hierarchical Mux may allow modularly output of more channels, such as 16, 24 or more to multiple of eight channel card sets, which would allow gathering more simultaneous channels of data for more complex analysis and faster data collection.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for continuous ultrasonic monitoring, including providing continuous ultrasonic monitoring of rotating elements and bearings of an energy production facility.
  • the present disclosure generally includes digitally collecting or streaming waveform data 2010 from a machine 2020 whose operational speed can vary from relatively slow rotational or oscillational speeds to much higher speeds in different situations.
  • the waveform data 2010, at least on one machine may include data from a single axis sensor 2030 mounted at an unchanging reference location 2040 and from a three-axis sensor 2050 mounted at changing locations (or located at multiple locations), including location 2052.
  • the waveform data 2010 can be vibration data obtained simultaneously from each sensor 2030, 2050 in a gap-free format for a duration of multiple minutes with maximum resolvable frequencies sufficiently large to capture periodic and transient impact events.
  • the waveform data 2010 can include vibration data that can be used to create an operational deflecting shape. It can also be used, as needed, to diagnose vibrations from which a machine repair solution can be prescribed.
  • the machine 2020 can further include a housing 2100 that can contain a drive motor 2110 that can drive a shaft 2120.
  • the shaft 2120 can be supported for rotation or oscillation by a set of bearings 2130, such as including a first bearing 2140 and a second bearing 2150.
  • a data collection module 2160 can connect to (or be resident on) the machine 2020.
  • the data collection module 2160 can be located and accessible through a cloud network facility 2170, can collect the waveform data 2010 from the machine 2020, and deliver the waveform data 2010 to a remote location.
  • a working end 2180 of the drive shaft 2120 of the machine 2020 can drive a windmill, a fan, a pump, a drill, a gear system, a drive system, or other working element, as the techniques described herein can apply to a wide range of machines, equipment, tools, or the like that include rotating or oscillating elements.
  • a generator can be substituted for the motor 2110, and the working end of the drive shaft 2120 can direct rotational energy to the generator to generate power, rather than consume it.
  • the waveform data 2010 can be obtained using a predetermined route format based on the layout of the machine 2020.
  • the waveform data 2010 may include data from the single axis sensor 2030 and the three-axis sensor 2050.
  • the single-axis sensor 2030 can serve as a reference probe with its one channel of data and can be fixed at the unchanging location 2040 on the machine under survey.
  • the three-axis sensor 2050 can serve as a tri-axial probe (e.g., three orthogonal axes) with its three channels of data and can be moved along a predetermined diagnostic route format from one test point to the next test point.
  • both sensors 2030, 2050 can be mounted manually to the machine 2020 and can connect to a separate portable computer in certain service examples.
  • the reference probe can remain at one location while the user can move the tri-axial vibration probe along the predetermined route, such as from bearing-to-bearing on a machine.
  • the user is instructed to locate the sensors at the predetermined locations to complete the survey (or portion thereof) of the machine.
  • an exemplary machine 2200 having a tri-axial sensor 2210 mounted to a location 2220 associated with a motor bearing of the machine 2200 with an output shaft 2230 and output member 2240 in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • an exemplary machine 2300 is shown having a tri-axial sensor 2310 and a single-axis vibration sensor 2320 serving as the reference sensor that is attached on the machine 2300 at an unchanging location for the duration of the vibration survey in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the tri-axial sensor 2310 and the single-axis vibration sensor 2320 can be connected to a data collection system 2330
  • the sensors and data acquisition modules and equipment can be integral to, or resident on, the rotating machine.
  • the machine can contain many single axis sensors and many tri-axial sensors at predetermined locations.
  • the sensors can be originally installed equipment and provided by the original equipment manufacturer or installed at a different time in a retrofit application.
  • the data collection module 2160 or the like, can select and use one single axis sensor and obtain data from it exclusively during the collection of waveform data 2010 while moving to each of the tri-axial sensors.
  • the data collection module 2160 can be resident on the machine 2020 and/or connect via the cloud network facility 2170
  • the various embodiments include collecting the waveform data 2010 by digitally recording locally, or streaming over, the cloud network facility 2170.
  • the waveform data 2010 can be collected so as to be gap-free with no interruptions and, in some respects, can be similar to an analog recording of waveform data.
  • the waveform data 2010 from all of the channels can be collected for one to two minutes depending on the rotating or oscillating speed of the machine being monitored.
  • the data sampling rate can be at a relatively high sampling rate relative to the operating frequency of the machine 2020.
  • a second reference sensor can be used, and a fifth channel of data can be collected.
  • the single-axis sensor can be the first channel and tri-axial vibration can occupy the second, the third, and the fourth data channels.
  • This second reference sensor like the first, can be a single axis sensor, such as an accelerometer.
  • the second reference sensor like the first reference sensor, can remain in the same location on the machine for the entire vibration survey on that machine. The location of the first reference sensor (i.e., the single axis sensor) may be different than the location of the second reference sensors (i.e., another single axis sensor).
  • the second reference sensor can be used when the machine has two shafts with different operating speeds, with the two reference sensors being located on the two different shafts.
  • further single-axis reference sensors can be employed at additional but different unchanging locations associated with the rotating machine.
  • the waveform data can be transmitted electronically in a gap-free free format at a significantly high rate of sampling for a relatively longer period of time.
  • the period of time is 60 seconds to 120 seconds.
  • the rate of sampling is 100 kHz with a maximum resolvable frequency (Fmax) of 40 kHz. It will be appreciated in light of this disclosure that the waveform data can be shown to approximate more closely some of the wealth of data available from previous instances of analog recording of waveform data.
  • sampling, band selection, and filtering techniques can permit one or more portions of a long stream of data (i.e., one to two minutes in duration) to be under sampled or over sampled to realize varying effective sampling rates.
  • interpolation and decimation can be used to further realize varying effective sampling rates.
  • oversampling may be applied to frequency bands that are proximal to rotational or oscillational operating speeds of the sampled machine, or to harmonics thereof, as vibration effects may tend to be more pronounced at those frequencies across the operating range of the machine.
  • the digitally-sampled data set can be decimated to produce a lower sampling rate.
  • decimating the data set can include first applying a low-pass filter to the digitally-sampled data set and then undersampling the data set.
  • a sample waveform at 100 Hz can be undersampled at every tenth point of the digital waveform to produce an effective sampling rate of 10 Hz, but the remaining nine points of that portion of the waveform are effectively discarded and not included in the modeling of the sample waveform.
  • this type of bare undersampling can create ghost frequencies due to the undersampling rate (i.e., 10 Hz) relative to the 100 Hz sample waveform.
  • the sample waveform at 100 Hz can be hardware-sampled at 10 Hz and therefore each sampling point is averaged over 100 milliseconds (e.g., a signal sampled at 100 Hz can have each point averaged over 10 milliseconds).
  • the present disclosure can include weighing adjacent data.
  • the adjacent data can include refers to the sample points that were previously discarded and the one remaining point that was retained.
  • a low pass filter can average the adjacent sample data linearly, i.e., determining the sum of every ten points and then dividing that sum by ten.
  • the adjacent data can be weighted with a sine function.
  • the process of weighting the original waveform with the sine function can be referred to as an impulse function, or can be referred to in the time domain as a convolution.
  • the present disclosure can be applicable to not only digitizing a waveform signal based on a detected voltage, but can also be applicable to digitizing waveform signals based on current waveforms, vibration waveforms, and image processing signals including video signal rasterization.
  • the resizing of a window on a computer screen can be decimated, albeit in at least two directions.
  • undersampling by itself can be shown to be insufficient.
  • oversampling or upsampling by itself can similarly be shown to be insufficient, such that interpolation can be used like decimation but in lieu of only undersampling by itself.
  • interpolation in this context can refer to first applying a low pass filter to the digitally-sampled waveform data and then upsampling the waveform data. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that real-world examples can often require the use of use non-integer factors for decimation or interpolation, or both. To that end, the present disclosure includes interpolating and decimating sequentially in order to realize a non-integer factor rate for interpolating and decimating. In one example, interpolating and decimating sequentially can define applying a low-pass filter to the sample waveform, then interpolating the waveform after the low-pass filter, and then decimating the waveform after the interpolation.
  • the vibration data can be looped to purposely emulate conventional tape recorder loops, with digital filtering techniques used with the effective splice to facilitate longer analyses. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the above techniques do not preclude waveform, spectrum, and other types of analyses to be processed and displayed with a GUI of the user at the time of collection. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that newer systems can permit this functionality to be performed in parallel to the high-performance collection of the raw waveform data.
  • the many embodiments include digitally streaming the waveform data 2010, as disclosed herein, and also enjoying the benefit of needing to load the route parameter information while setting the data acquisition hardware only once. Because the waveform data 2010 is streamed to only one file, there is no need to open and close files, or switch between loading and writing operations with the storage medium. It can be shown that the collection and storage of the waveform data 2010, as described herein, can be shown to produce relatively more meaningful data in significantly less time than the traditional batch data acquisition approach. An example of this includes an electric motor about which waveform data can be collected with a data length of 4K points (i.e., 4,096) for sufficiently high resolution in order to, among other things, distinguish electrical sideband frequencies.
  • 4K points i.e., 4,096
  • IK For fans or blowers, a reduced resolution of IK (i.e., 1 ,024) can be used.
  • IK can be the minimum waveform data length requirement.
  • the sampling rate can be 1,280 Hz and that equates to an Fmax of 500 Hz.
  • oversampling by an industry standard factor of 2.56 can satisfy the necessary two-times (2x) oversampling for the Nyquist Criterion with some additional leeway that can accommodate anti-aliasing filter-rolloff.
  • the time to acquire this waveform data would be 1,024 points at 1 ,280 hertz, which are 800 milliseconds.
  • the waveform data can be averaged. Eight averages can be used with, for example, fifty percent overlap. This would extend the time from 800 milliseconds to 3.6 seconds, which is equal to 800 msec x 8 averages x 0.5 (overlap ratio) + 0.5 x 800 msec (non-overlapped head and tail ends).
  • Fmax 500 Hz waveform data
  • eight averages can be used with fifty percent (50%) overlap to collect waveform data at this higher rate that can amount to a collection time of 360 msec or 0.36 seconds.
  • additional sampling rates can be added but this can make the total amount time for the vibration survey even longer because time adds up from changeover time from one sampling rate to another and from the time to obtain additional data at different sampling rate.
  • the vibration survey would therefore require an additional 36 seconds for the first set of averaged data at this sampling rate, in addition to others mentioned above, and consequently the total time spent at each measurement point increases even more dramatically.
  • Further embodiments include using similar digital streaming of gap free waveform data as disclosed herein for use with wind turbines and other machines that can have relatively slow speed rotating or oscillating systems.
  • the waveform data collected can include long samples of data at a relatively high sampling rate.
  • the sampling rate can be 100 kHz and the sampling duration can be for two minutes on all of the channels being recorded.
  • one channel can be for the single axis reference sensor and three more data channels can be for the tri-axial three channel sensor.
  • the long data length can be shown to facilitate detection of extremely low frequency phenomena.
  • the long data length can also be shown to accommodate the inherent speed variability in wind turbine operations. Additionally, the long data length can further be shown to provide the opportunity for using numerous averages such as those discussed herein, to achieve very high spectral resolution, and to make feasible tape loops for certain spectral analyses.
  • Many multiple advanced analytical techniques can now become available because such techniques can use the available long uninterrupted length of waveform data in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the simultaneous collection of waveform data from multiple channels can facilitate performing transfer functions between multiple channels.
  • the simultaneous collection of waveform data from multiple channels facilitates establishing phase relationships across the machine so that more sophisticated correlations can be utilized by relying on the fact that the waveforms from each of the channels are collected simultaneously.
  • more channels in the data collection can be used to reduce the time it takes to complete the overall vibration survey by allowing for simultaneous acquisition of waveform data from multiple sensors that otherwise would have to be acquired, in a subsequent fashion, moving sensor to sensor in the vibration survey.
  • the present disclosure includes the use of at least one of the single-axis reference probe on one of the channels to allow for acquisition of relative phase comparisons between channels.
  • the reference probe can be an accelerometer or other type of transducer that is not moved and, therefore, fixed at an unchanging location during the vibration survey of one machine.
  • Multiple reference probes can each be deployed as at suitable locations fixed in place (i.e., at unchanging locations) throughout the acquisition of vibration data during the vibration survey. In certain examples, up to seven reference probes can be deployed depending on the capacity of the data collection module 2160 or the like.
  • transfer functions or similar techniques the relative phases of all channels may be compared with one another at all selected frequencies.
  • the one or more reference probes can provide relative phase, rather than absolute phase. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that relative phase may not be as valuable absolute phase for some purposes, but the relative phase the information can still be shown to be very useful.
  • the sampling rates used during the vibration survey can be digitally synchronized to predetermined operational frequencies that can relate to pertinent parameters of the machine such as rotating or oscillating speed. Doing this, permits extracting even more information using synchronized averaging techniques. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that this can be done without the use of a key phasor or a reference pulse from a rotating shaft, which is usually not available for route collected data. As such, non-synchronous signals can be removed from a complex signal without the need to deploy synchronous averaging using the key phasor. This can be shown to be very powerful when analyzing a particular pinon in a gearbox or generally applied to any component within a complicated mechanical mechanism.
  • the key phasor or the reference pulse is rarely available with route collected data, but the techniques disclosed herein can overcome this absence.
  • variable speed equipment can be more readily analyzed with relatively longer duration of data relative to single speed equipment.
  • the vibration survey can be conducted at several machine speeds within the same contiguous set of vibration data using the same techniques disclosed herein. These techniques can also permit the study of the change of the relationship between vibration and the change of the rate of speed that was not available before.
  • the gap-free digital format can facilitate many paths to analyze the waveform data in many ways after the fact to identify specific problems.
  • the vibration data collected in accordance with the techniques disclosed herein can provide the analysis of transient, semi-periodic and very low frequency phenomena.
  • the waveform data acquired in accordance with the present disclosure can contain relatively longer streams of raw gap-free waveform data that can be conveniently played back as needed, and on which many and varied sophisticated analytical techniques can be performed. A large number of such techniques can provide for various forms of filtering to extract low amplitude modulations from transient impact data that can be included in the relatively longer stream of raw gap-free waveform data.
  • a method of monitoring vibration of a machine having at least one shaft supported by a set of bearings includes monitoring a first data channel assigned to a single-axis sensor at an unchanging location associated with the machine.
  • the method also includes monitoring a second, third, and fourth data channel assigned to a three- axis sensor.
  • the method further includes recording gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from all of the data channels while the machine is in operation; and determining a change in relative phase based on the digital waveform data.
  • the method also includes the tri-axial sensor being located at a plurality of positions associated with the machine while obtaining the digital waveform.
  • the second, third, and fourth channels are assigned together to a sequence of tri-axial sensors each located at different positions associated with the machine.
  • the data is received from all of the sensors on all of their channels simultaneously.
  • the method also includes determining an operating deflection shape based on the change in relative phase information and the waveform data.
  • the unchanging location of the reference sensor is a position associated with a shaft of the machine.
  • the tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at different positions and are each associated with different bearings in the machine.
  • the unchanging location is a position associated with a shaft of the machine and, wherein, the tri-axial sensors in the sequence of the tri-axial sensors are each located at different positions and are each associated with different bearings that support the shaft in the machine.
  • the various embodiments include methods of sequentially monitoring vibration or similar process parameters and signals of a rotating or oscillating machine or analogous process machinery from a number of channels simultaneously, which can be known as an ensemble.
  • the ensemble can include one to eight channels.
  • an ensemble can represent a logical measurement grouping on the equipment being monitored whether those measurement locations are temporary for measurement, supplied by the original equipment manufacturer, retrofit at a later date, or one or more combinations thereof.
  • an ensemble can monitor bearing vibration in a single direction.
  • an ensemble can monitor three different directions (e.g., orthogonal directions) using a tri-axial sensor.
  • an ensemble can monitor four or more channels where the first channel can monitor a single axis vibration sensor, and the second, the third, and the fourth channels can monitor each of the three directions of the tri-axial sensor.
  • the ensemble can be fixed to a group of adjacent bearings on the same piece of equipment or an associated shaft.
  • the cooperation with the reference channel can be shown to support a more complete correlation of the collected waveforms from the ensembles.
  • the reference sensor on the reference channel can be a single axis vibration sensor, or a phase reference sensor that can be triggered by a reference location on a rotating shaft or the like.
  • the methods can further include recording gap-free digital waveform data simultaneously from all of the channels of each ensemble at a relatively high rate of sampling so as to include all frequencies deemed necessary for the proper analysis of the machinery being monitored while it is in operation.
  • the data from the ensembles can be streamed gap-free to a storage medium for subsequent processing that can be connected to a cloud network facility, a local data link, Bluetooth connectivity, cellular data connectivity, or the like.
  • the methods disclosed herein include strategies for collecting data from the various ensembles including digital signal processing techniques that can be subsequently applied to data from the ensembles to emphasize or better isolate specific frequencies or waveform phenomena. This can be in contrast with current methods that collect multiple sets of data at different sampling rates, or with different hardware filtering configurations including integration, that provide relatively less post-processing flexibility because of the commitment to these same (known as a priori hardware configurations). These same hardware configurations can also be shown to increase time of the vibration survey due to the latency delays associated with configuring the hardware for each independent test.
  • the methods for collecting data from various ensembles include data marker technology that can be used for classifying sections of streamed data as homogenous and belonging to a specific ensemble.
  • a classification can be defined as operating speed. In doing so, a multitude of ensembles can be created from what conventional systems would collect as only one.
  • the many embodiments include post-processing analytic techniques for comparing the relative phases of all the frequencies of interest not only between each channel of the collected ensemble but also between all of the channels of all of the ensembles being monitored, when applicable.
  • the many embodiments include a first machine 2400 having rotating or oscillating components 2410, or both, each supported by a set of bearings 2420 including a bearing pack 2422, a bearing pack 2424, a bearing pack 2426, and more as needed.
  • the first machine 2400 can be monitored by a first sensor ensemble 2450.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can be configured to receive signals from sensors originally installed (or added later) on the first machine 2400.
  • the sensors on the first machine 2400 can include single-axis sensors 2460, such as a single-axis sensor 2462, a single-axis sensor 2464, and more as needed.
  • the single axis-sensors 2460 can be positioned in the first machine 2400 at locations that allow for the sensing of one of the rotating or oscillating components 2410 of the first machine 2400.
  • the first machine 2400 can also have tri-axial (e.g., orthogonal axes) sensors 2480, such as a tri-axial sensor 2482, a tri-axial sensor 2484, and more as needed.
  • the tri-axial sensors 2480 can be positioned in the first machine 2400 at locations that allow for the sensing of one of each of the bearing packs in the sets of bearings 2420 that is associated with the rotating or oscillating components of the first machine 2400.
  • the first machine 2400 can also have temperature sensors 2500, such as a temperature sensor 2502, a temperature sensor 2504, and more as needed.
  • the first machine 2400 can also have a tachometer sensor 2510 or more as needed that each detail the RPMs of one of its rotating components.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can survey the above sensors associated with the first machine 2400.
  • the first ensemble 2450 can be configured to receive eight channels.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can be configured to have more than eight channels, or less than eight channels as needed.
  • the eight channels include two channels that can each monitor a single-axis reference sensor signal and three channels that can monitor a tri-axial sensor signal. The remaining three channels can monitor two temperature signals and a signal from a tachometer.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can monitor the single-axis sensor 2462, the single-axis sensor 2464, the tri- axial sensor 2482, the temperature sensor 2502, the temperature sensor 2504, and the tachometer sensor 2510 in accordance with the present disclosure. During a vibration survey on the first machine 2400, the first sensor ensemble 2450 can first monitor the tri-axial sensor 2482 and then move next to the tri-axial sensor 2484.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can monitor additional tri-axial sensors on the first machine 2400 as needed and that are part of the predetermined route list associated with the vibration survey of the first machine 2400, in accordance with the present disclosure.
  • the first sensor ensemble 2450 can continually monitor the single-axis sensor 2462, the single-axis sensor 2464, the two temperature sensors 2502, 2504, and the tachometer sensor 2510 while the first ensemble 2450 can serially monitor the multiple tri-axial sensors 2480 in the predetermined route plan for this vibration survey.
  • the many embodiments include a second machine 2600 having rotating or oscillating components 2610, or both, each supported by a set of bearings 2620 including a bearing pack 2622, a bearing pack 2624, a bearing pack 2626, and more as needed.
  • the second machine 2600 can be monitored by a second sensor ensemble 2650.
  • the second sensor ensemble 2650 can be configured to receive signals from sensors originally installed (or added later) on the second machine 2600.
  • the sensors on the second machine 2600 can include single-axis sensors 2660, such as a single-axis sensor 2662, a single-axis sensor 2664, and more as needed.
  • the single axis-sensors 2660 can be positioned in the second machine 2600 at locations that allow for the sensing of one of the rotating or oscillating components 2610 of the second machine 2600.
  • the second machine 2600 can also have tri-axial (e.g., orthogonal axes) sensors 2680, such as a tri-axial sensor 2682, a tri-axial sensor 2684, a tri-axial sensor 2686, and more as needed.
  • the tri-axial sensors 2680 can be positioned in the second machine 2600 at locations that allow for the sensing of one of each of the bearing packs in the sets of bearings 2620 that is associated with the rotating or oscillating components of the second machine 2600.
  • the second machine 2600 can also have temperature sensors 2700, such as a temperature sensor 2702, a temperature sensor 2704, and more as needed.
  • the second machine 2600 can also have a tachometer sensor 2710 or more as needed that each detail the RPMs of one of its rotating components.
  • the second sensor ensemble 2650 can survey the above sensors associated with the second machine 2600. To that end, the second sensor ensemble 2650 can be configured to receive eight channels. In other examples, the second sensor ensemble 2650 can be configured to have more than eight channels or less than eight channels as needed. In this example, the eight channels include one channel that can monitor a single-axis reference sensor signal and six channels that can monitor two tri-axial sensor signals. The remaining channel can monitor a temperature signal. In one example, the second ensemble 2650 can monitor the single axis sensor 2662, the tri-axial sensor 2682, the tri-axial sensor 2684, and the temperature sensor 2702.
  • the second sensor ensemble 2650 can first monitor the tri-axial sensor 2682 simultaneously with the tri-axial sensor 2684 and then move onto the tri-axial sensor 2686 simultaneously with the tri-axial sensor 2688.
  • the second sensor ensemble 2650 can monitor additional tri-axial sensors (in simultaneous pairs) on the second machine 2600 as needed and that are part of the predetermined route list associated with the vibration survey of the secibd machine 2600 in accordance with the present disclosure. During this vibration survey, the second sensor ensemble 2650 can continually monitor the single-axis sensor 2662 at its unchanging location and the temperature sensor 2702 while the second sensor ensemble 2650 can serially monitor the multiple tri-axial sensors in the predetermined route plan for this vibration survey.
  • the many embodiments include a third machine 2800 having rotating or oscillating components 2810, or both, each supported by a set of bearings including a bearing pack 2822, a bearing pack 2824, a bearing pack 2826, and more as needed.
  • the third machine 2800 can be monitored by a third sensor ensemble 2850.
  • the third sensor ensemble 2850 can be configured with a single-axis sensor 2860, and two tri-axial (e.g., orthogonal axes) sensors 2880, 2882.
  • the single axis-sensor 2860 can be secured by the user on the third machine 2800 at a location that allows for the sensing of one of the rotating or oscillating components of the third machine 2800.
  • the tri-axial sensors 2880, 2882 can be also be located on the third machine 2800 by the user at locations that allow for the sensing of one of each of the bearings in the sets of bearings that each associated with the rotating or oscillating components of the third machine 2800.
  • the third sensor ensemble 2850 can also include a temperature sensor 2900.
  • the third sensor ensemble 2850 and its sensors can be moved to other machines unlike the first and second ensembles 2450, 2650.
  • the many embodiments also include a fourth machine 2950 having rotating or oscillating components 2960, or both, each supported by a set of bearings including a bearing pack 2972, a bearing pack 2974, a bearing pack 2976, and more as needed.
  • the fourth machine 2950 can be also monitored by the third sensor ensemble 2850 when the user moves it to the fourth machine 2950.
  • the many embodiments also include a fifth machine 3000 having rotating or oscillating components 3010, or both.
  • the fifth machine 3000 may not be explicitly monitored by any sensor or any sensor ensembles in operation but it can create vibrations or other impulse energy of sufficient magnitude to be recorded in the data associated with any one the machines 2400, 2600, 2800, 2950 under a vibration survey.
  • the many embodiments include monitoring the first sensor ensemble 2450 on the first machine 2400 through the predetermined route as disclosed herein.
  • the many embodiments also include monitoring the second sensor ensemble 2650 on the second machine 2600 through the predetermined route.
  • the locations of first machine 2400 being close to second machine 2600 can be included in the contextual metadata of both vibration surveys.
  • the third ensemble 2850 can be moved between third machine 2800, fourth machine 2950, and other suitable machines.
  • the fifth machine 3000 has no sensors onboard as configured, but could be monitored as needed by the third sensor ensemble 2850.
  • the machine fifth 3000 and its operational characteristics can be recorded in the metadata in relation to the vibration surveys on the other machines to note its contribution due to its proximity.
  • the many embodiments include hybrid database adaptation for harmonizing relational metadata and streaming raw data formats. Unlike older systems that utilized traditional database structure for associating nameplate and operational parameters (sometimes deemed metadata) with individual data measurements that are discrete and relatively simple, it will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that more modern systems can collect relatively larger quantities of raw streaming data with higher sampling rates and greater resolutions. At the same time, it will also be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the network of metadata with which to link and obtain this raw data or correlate with this raw data, or both, is expanding at ever-increasing rates.
  • a single overall vibration level can be collected as part of a route or prescribed list of measurement points. This data collected can then be associated with database measurement location information for a point located on a surface of a bearing housing on a specific piece of the machine adjacent to a coupling in a vertical direction. Machinery analysis parameters relevant to the proper analysis can be associated with the point located on the surface. Examples of machinery analysis parameters relevant to the proper analysis can include a running speed of a shaft passing through the measurement point on the surface.
  • machinery analysis parameters relevant to the proper analysis can include one of, or a combination of: running speeds of all component shafts for that piece of equipment and/or machine, bearing types being analyzed such as sleeve or rolling element bearings, the number of gear teeth on gears should there be a gearbox, the number of poles in a motor, slip and line frequency of a motor, roller bearing element dimensions, number of fan blades, or the like.
  • machinery analysis parameters relevant to the proper analysis can further include machine operating conditions such as the load on the machines and whether load is expressed in percentage, wattage, air flow, head pressure, horsepower, and the like.
  • Further examples of machinery analysis parameters include information relevant to adjacent machines that might influence the data obtained during the vibration study.
  • the present disclosure further includes hierarchical relationships found in the vibrational data collected that can be used to support proper analysis of the data.
  • One example of the hierarchical data includes the interconnection of mechanical componentry such as a bearing being measured in a vibration survey and the relationship between that bearing, including how that bearing connects to a particular shaft on which is mounted a specific pinion within a particular gearbox, and the relationship between the shaft, the pinion, and the gearbox.
  • the hierarchical data can further include in what particular spot within a machinery gear train that the bearing being monitored is located relative to other components in the machine.
  • the hierarchical data can also detail whether the bearing being measured in a machine is in close proximity to another machine whose vibrations may affect what is being measured in the machine that is the subject of the vibration study.
  • the analysis of the vibration data from the bearing or other components related to one another in the hierarchical data can use table lookups, searches for correlations between frequency patterns derived from the raw data, and specific frequencies from the metadata of the machine.
  • the above can be stored in and retrieved from a relational database.
  • National Instrument's Technical Data Management Solution (TDMS) file format can be used.
  • the TDMS file format can be optimized for streaming various types of measurement data (i.e., binary digital samples of waveforms), as well as also being able to handle hierarchical metadata.
  • the many embodiments include a hybrid relational metadata - binary storage approach (HRM-BSA).
  • the HRM- BSA can include a structured query language (SQL) based relational database engine.
  • the structured query language based relational database engine can also include a raw data engine that can be optimized for throughput and storage density for data that is flat and relatively structureless. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that benefits can be shown in the cooperation between the hierarchical metadata and the SQL relational database engine.
  • marker technologies and pointer sign-posts can be used to make correlations between the raw database engine and the SQL relational database engine.
  • Three examples of correlations between the raw database engine and the SQL relational database engine linkages include: (1) pointers from the SQL database to the raw data; (2) pointers from the ancillary metadata tables or similar grouping of the raw data to the SQL database; and (3) independent storage tables outside the domain of either the SQL data base or raw data technologies.
  • a plant 3200 can include machine one 3202, machine two 3204, and many others in the plant 3200.
  • the machine one 3202 can include a gearbox 3212, a motor 3210, and other elements.
  • the machine two 3204 can include a motor 3220, and other elements.
  • waveforms 3230 including waveform 3240, waveform 3242, waveform 3244, and additional waveforms as needed can be acquired from the machines 3202, 3204 in the plant 3200.
  • the waveforms 3230 can be associated with the local marker linking tables 3300 and the linking raw data tables 3400.
  • the machines 3202, 3204 and their elements can be associated with linking tables having relational databases 3500.
  • the linking tables raw data tables 3400 and the linking tables having relational databases 3500 can be associated with the linking tables with optional independent storage tables 3600.
  • the present disclosure can include markers that can be applied to a time mark or a sample length within the raw waveform data.
  • the markers generally fall into two categories: preset or dynamic.
  • the preset markers can correlate to preset or existing operating conditions (e.g., load, head pressure, air flow cubic feet per minute, ambient temperature, RPMs, and the like.). These preset markers can be fed into the data acquisition system directly.
  • the preset markers can be collected on data channels in parallel with the waveform data (e.g., waveforms for vibration, current, voltage, etc.). Alternatively, the values for the preset markers can be entered manually.
  • One example of the present disclosure includes one of the parallel channel inputs being a key phasor trigger pulse from an operating shaft that can provide RPM information at the instantaneous time of collection.
  • sections of collected waveform data can be marked with appropriate speeds or speed ranges.
  • the present disclosure can also include dynamic markers that can correlate to data that can be derived from post processing and analytics performed on the sample waveform.
  • the dynamic markers can also correlate to post-collection derived parameters including RPMs, as well as other operationally derived metrics such as alarm conditions like a maximum RPM.
  • RPMs post-collection derived parameters
  • other operationally derived metrics such as alarm conditions like a maximum RPM.
  • many modern pieces of equipment that are candidates for a vibration survey with the portable data collection systems described herein do not include tachometer information. This can be true because it is not always practical or cost-justifiable to add a tachometer even though the measurement of RPM can be of primary importance for the vibration survey and analysis.
  • the RPM information can be used to mark segments of the raw waveform data over its collection history. Further embodiments include techniques for collecting instrument data following a prescribed route of a vibration study.
  • the dynamic markers can enable analysis and trending software to utilize multiple segments of the collection interval indicated by the markers (e.g., two minutes) as multiple historical collection ensembles, rather than just one as done in previous systems where route collection systems would historically store data for only one RPM setting. This could, in turn, be extended to any other operational parameter such as load setting, ambient temperature, and the like, as previously described.
  • the dynamic markers that can be placed in a type of index file pointing to the raw data stream can classify portions of the stream in homogenous entities that can be more readily compared to previously collected portions of the raw data stream
  • the many embodiments include the hybrid relational metadata-binary storage approach that can use the best of preexisting technologies for both relational and raw data streams.
  • the hybrid relational metadata - binary storage approach can marry them together with a variety of marker linkages.
  • the marker linkages can permit rapid searches through the relational metadata and can allow for more efficient analyses of the raw data using conventional SQL techniques with preexisting technology. This can be shown to permit utilization of many of the capabilities, linkages, compatibilities, and extensions that conventional database technologies do not provide.
  • the marker linkages can also permit rapid and efficient storage of the raw data using conventional binary storage and data compression techniques. This can be shown to permit utilization of many of the capabilities, linkages, compatibilities, and extensions that conventional raw data technologies provide such as TMDS (National Instruments), UFF (Universal File Format such as UFF58), and the like.
  • the marker linkages can further permit using the marker technology links where a vastly richer set of data from the ensembles can be amassed in the same collection time as more conventional systems.
  • the richer set of data from the ensembles can store data snapshots associated with predetermined collection criterion and the proposed system can derive multiple snapshots from the collected data streams utilizing the marker technology. In doing so, it can be shown that a relatively richer analysis of the collected data can be achieved.
  • One such benefit can include more trending points of vibration at a specific frequency or order of running speed versus RPM, load, operating temperature, flow rates and the like, which can be collected for a similar time relative to what is spent collecting data with a conventional system.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from machines, elements of the machines and the environment of the machines including heavy duty machines deployed at a local job site or at distributed job sites under common control.
  • the heavy-duty machines may include earthmoving equipment, heavy duty on-road industrial vehicles, heavy duty off-road industrial vehicles, industrial machines deployed in various settings such as turbines, turbomachinery, generators, pumps, pulley systems, manifold and valve systems, and the like.
  • heavy industrial machinery may also include earth-moving equipment, earth- compacting equipment, hauling equipment, hoisting equipment, conveying equipment, aggregate production equipment, equipment used in concrete construction, and piledriving equipment.
  • earth moving equipment may include excavators, backhoes, loaders, bulldozers, skid steer loaders, trenchers, motor graders, motor scrapers, crawker loaders, and wheeled loading shovels.
  • construction vehicles may include dumpers, tankers, tippers, and trailers.
  • material handling equipment may include cranes, conveyors, forklift, and hoists.
  • construction equipment may include tunnel and handling equipment, road rollers, concrete mixers, hot mix plants, road making machines (compactors), stone crashers, pavers, slurry seal machines, spraying and plastering machines, and heavy-duty pumps. Further examples of heavy industrial equipment may include different systems such as implement traction, structure, power train, control, and information.
  • Heavy industrial equipment may include many different powertrains and combinations thereof to provide power for locomotion and to also provide power to accessories and onboard functionality.
  • the platform 100 may deploy the local data collection system 102 into the environment 104 in which these machines, motors, pumps, and the like, operate and directly connected integrated into each of the machines, motors, pumps, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from machines in operation and machines in being constructed such as turbine and generator sets like SiemensTM SGT6-5000FTM gas turbine, an SST-900TM steam turbine, an SGen6-1000ATM generator, and an SGen6-100ATM generator, and the like.
  • the local data collection system 102 may be deployed to monitor steam turbines as they rotate in the currents caused by hot water vapor that may be directed through the turbine but otherwise generated from a different source such as from gas-fired burners, nuclear cores, molten salt loops and the like.
  • the local data collection system 102 may monitor the turbines and the water or other fluids in a closed loop cycle in which water condenses and is then heated until it evaporates again.
  • the local data collection system 102 may monitor the steam turbines separately from the fuel source deployed to heat the water to steam.
  • working temperatures of steam turbines may be between 500 and 650 °C.
  • an array of steam turbines may be arranged and configured for high, medium, and low pressure, so they may optimally convert the respective steam pressure into rotational movement.
  • the local data collection system 102 may also be deployed in a gas turbines arrangement and therefore not only monitor the turbine in operation but also monitor the hot combustion gases feed into the turbine that may be in excess of 1,500 °C. Because these gases are much hotter than those in steam turbines, the blades may be cooled with air that may flow out of small openings to create a protective film or boundary layer between the exhaust gases and the blades. This temperature profile may be monitored by the local data collection system 102.
  • Gas turbine engines unlike typical steam turbines, include a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine all of which are journaled for rotation with a rotating shaft. The construction and operation of each of these components may be monitored by the local data collection system 102.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from water turbines serving as rotary engines that may harvest energy from moving water and are used for electric power generation.
  • the type of water turbine or hydro-power selected for a project may be based on the height of standing water, often referred to as head, and the flow, or volume of water, at the site.
  • a generator may be placed at the top of a shaft that connects to the water turbine. As the turbine catches the naturally moving water in its blade and rotates, the turbine sends rotational power to the generator to generate electrical energy.
  • the platform 100 may monitor signals from the generators, the turbines, the local water system, flow controls such as dam windows and sluices.
  • the platform 100 may monitor local conditions on the electric grid including load, predicted demand, frequency response, and the like, and include such information in the monitoring and control deployed by platform 100 in these hydroelectric settings.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from energy production environments, such as thermal, nuclear, geothermal, chemical, biomass, carbon- based fuels, hybrid-renewable energy plants, and the like. Many of these plants may use multiple forms of energy harvesting equipment like wind turbines, hydro turbines, and steam turbines powered by heat from nuclear, gas-fired, solar, and molten salt heat sources.
  • elements in such systems may include transmission lines, heat exchangers, desulphurization scrubbers, pumps, coolers, recuperators, chillers, and the like.
  • certain implementations of turbomachinery, turbines, scroll compressors, and the like may be configured in arrayed control so as to monitor large facilities creating electricity for consumption, providing refrigeration, creating steam for local manufacture and heating, and the like, and that arrayed control platforms may be provided by the provider of the industrial equipment such as Honeywell and their ExperionTM PKS platform.
  • the platform 100 may specifically communicate with and integrate the local manufacturer-specific controls and may allow equipment from one manufacturer to communicate with other equipment.
  • the platform 100 provides allows for the local data collection system 102 to collect information across systems from many different manufacturers.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from marine industrial equipment, marine diesel engines, shipbuilding, oil and gas plants, refineries, petrochemical plant, ballast water treatment solutions, marine pumps and turbines and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from heavy industrial equipment and processes including monitoring one or more sensors.
  • sensors may be devices that may be used to detect or respond to some type of input from a physical environment, such as an electrical, heat, or optical signal.
  • the local data collection system 102 may include multiple sensors such as, without limitation, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a torque sensor, a flow sensor, a heat sensors, a smoke sensor, an arc sensor, a radiation sensor, a position sensor, an acceleration sensor, a strain sensor, a pressure cycle sensor, a pressure sensor, an air temperature sensor, and the like.
  • the torque sensor may encompass a magnetic twist angle sensor.
  • the torque and speed sensors in the local data collection system 102 may be similar to those discussed in U.S. Patent Number 8,352,149 to Meachem, issued 8 January 2013 and hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
  • one or more sensors may be provided such as a tactile sensor, a biosensor, a chemical sensor, an image sensor, a humidity sensor, an inertial sensor, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from sensors that may provide signals for fault detection including excessive vibration, incorrect material, incorrect material properties, trueness to the proper size, trueness to the proper shape, proper weight, trueness to balance.
  • Additional fault sensors include those for inventory control and for inspections such as to confirming that parts packaged to plan, parts are to tolerance in a plan, occurrence of packaging damage or stress, and sensors that may indicate the occurrence of shock or damage in transit.
  • Additional fault sensors may include detection of the lack of lubrication, over lubrication, the need for cleaning of the sensor detection window, the need for maintenance due to low lubrication, the need for maintenance due to blocking or reduced flow in a lubrication region, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 that includes aircraft operations and manufacture including monitoring signals from sensors for specialized applications such as sensors used in an aircraft's Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS), such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers.
  • AHRS Attitude and Heading Reference System
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from image sensors such as semiconductor charge coupled devices (CCDs), active pixel sensors, in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) or N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS, Live MOS) technologies.
  • CCDs semiconductor charge coupled devices
  • CMOS complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
  • NMOS N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from sensors such as an infra-red (IR) sensor, an ultraviolet (UV) sensor, a touch sensor, a proximity sensor, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from sensors configured for optical character recognition (OCR), reading barcodes, detecting surface acoustic waves, detecting transponders, communicating with home automation systems, medical diagnostics, health monitoring, and the like.
  • OCR optical character recognition
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from sensors such as a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensor, such as ST Microelectronic' sTM LSM303AH smart MEMS sensor, which may include an ultra-low-power high-performance system-in- package featuring a 3D digital linear acceleration sensor and a 3D digital magnetic sensor.
  • MEMS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
  • ST Microelectronic' sTM LSM303AH smart MEMS sensor which may include an ultra-low-power high-performance system-in- package featuring a 3D digital linear acceleration sensor and a 3D digital magnetic sensor.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from additional large machines such as turbines, windmills, industrial vehicles, robots, and the like. These large mechanical machines include multiple components and elements providing multiple subsystems on each machine.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from individual elements such as axles, bearings, belts, buckets, gears, shafts, gear boxes, cams, carriages, camshafts, clutches, brakes, drums, dynamos, feeds, flywheels, gaskets, pumps, jaws, robotic arms, seals, sockets, sleeves, valves, wheels, actuators, motors, servomotor, and the like. Many of the machines and their elements may include servomotors.
  • the local data collection system 102 may monitor the motor, the rotary encoder, and the potentiometer of the servomechanism to provide three-dimensional detail of position, placement, and progress of industrial processes.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from gear drives, powertrains, transfer cases, multispeed axles, transmissions, direct drives, chain drives, belt-drives, shaft-drives, magnetic drives, and similar meshing mechanical drives.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from fault conditions of industrial machines that may include overheating, noise, grinding gears, locked gears, excessive vibration, wobbling, under- inflation, over-inflation, and the like. Operation faults, maintenance indicators, and interactions from other machines may cause maintenance or operational issues may occur during operation, during installation, and during maintenance.
  • the faults may occur in the mechanisms of the industrial machines but may also occur in infrastructure that supports the machine such as its wiring and local installation platforms.
  • the large industrial machines may face different types of fault conditions such as overheating, noise, grinding gears, excessive vibration of machine parts, fan vibration problems, problems with large industrial machines rotating parts.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor signals from industrial machinery including failures that may be caused by premature bearing failure that may occur due to contamination or loss of bearing lubricant.
  • a mechanical defect such as misalignment of bearings may occur.
  • the local data collection system 102 may monitor cycles and local stresses.
  • the platform 100 may monitor incorrect operation of machine parts, lack of maintenance and servicing of parts, corrosion of vital machine parts, such as couplings or gearboxes, misalignment of machine parts, and the like. Though the fault occurrences cannot be completely stopped, many industrial breakdowns may be mitigated to reduce operational and financial losses.
  • the platform 100 provides real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance in many industrial environments wherein it has been shown to present a cost-savings over regularly- scheduled maintenance processes that replace parts according to a rigid expiration of time and not actual load and wear and tear on the element or machine.
  • the platform 10 may provide reminders of, or perform some, preventive measures such as adhering to operating manual and mode instructions for machines, proper lubrication, and maintenance of machine parts, minimizing or eliminating overrun of machines beyond their defined capacities, replacement of worn but still functional parts as needed, properly training the personnel for machine use, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 to monitor multiple signals that may be carried by a plurality of physical, electronic, and symbolic formats or signals.
  • the platform 100 may employ signal processing including a plurality of mathematical, statistical, computational, heuristic, and linguistic representations and processing of signals and a plurality of operations needed for extraction of useful information from signal processing operations such as techniques for representation, modeling, analysis, synthesis, sensing, acquisition, and extraction of information from signals.
  • signal processing may be performed using a plurality of techniques, including but not limited to transformations, spectral estimations, statistical operations, probabilistic and stochastic operations, numerical theory analysis, data mining, and the like.
  • the processing of various types of signals forms the basis of many electrical or computational process.
  • Signal processing for images may include pattern recognition for manufacturing inspections, quality inspection, and automated operational inspection and maintenance.
  • the platform 100 may employ many pattern recognition techniques including those that may classify input data into classes based on key features with the objective of recognizing patterns or regularities in data.
  • the platform 100 may also implement pattern recognition processes with machine learning operations and may be used in applications such as computer vision, speech and text processing, radar processing, handwriting recognition, CAD systems, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may employ supervised classification and unsupervised classification.
  • the supervised learning classification algorithms may be based to create classifiers for image or pattern recognition, based on training data obtained from different object classes.
  • the unsupervised learning classification algorithms may operate by finding hidden structures in unlabeled data using advanced analysis techniques such as segmentation and clustering.
  • some of the analysis techniques used in unsupervised learning may include K- means clustering, Gaussian mixture models, Hidden Markov models, and the like.
  • the algorithms used in supervised and unsupervised learning methods of pattern recognition enable the use of pattern recognition in various high precision applications.
  • the platform 100 may use pattern recognition in face detection related applications such as security systems, tracking, sports related applications, fingerprint analysis, medical and forensic applications, navigation and guidance systems, vehicle tracking, public infrastructure systems such as transport systems, license plate monitoring, and the like.
  • the platform 100 may include the local data collection system 102 deployed in the environment 104 using machine learning to enable derivation-based learning outcomes from computers without the need to program them.
  • the platform 100 may, therefore, learn from and make decisions on a set of data, by making data-driven predictions and adapting according to the set of data.
  • machine learning may involve performing a plurality of machine learning tasks by machine learning systems, such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning.
  • Supervised learning may include presenting a set of example inputs and desired outputs to the machine learning systems.
  • Unsupervised learning may include the learning algorithm itself structuring its input by methods such as pattern detection and/or feature learning.
  • Reinforcement learning may include the machine learning systems performing in a dynamic environment and then providing feedback about correct and incorrect decisions.
  • machine learning may include a plurality of other tasks based on an output of the machine learning system.
  • the tasks may also be classified as machine learning problems such as classification, regression, clustering, density estimation, dimensionality reduction, anomaly detection, and the like.
  • machine learning may include a plurality of mathematical and statistical techniques.
  • the many types of machine learning algorithms may include decision tree based learning, association rule learning, deep learning, artificial neural networks, genetic learning algorithms, inductive logic programming, support vector machines (SVMs), Bayesian network, reinforcement learning, representation learning, rule-based machine learning, sparse dictionary learning, similarity and metric learning, learning classifier systems (LCS), logistic regression, random forest, K-Means, gradient boost and adaboost, K-nearest neighbors (KNN), a priori algorithms, and the like.
  • certain machine learning algorithms may be used (such as genetic algorithms defined for solving both constrained and unconstrained optimization problems that may be based on natural selection, the process that drives biological evolution).
  • genetic algorithms may be deployed to solve a variety of optimization problems that are not well suited for standard optimization algorithms, including problems in which the objective functions are discontinuous, not differentiable, stochastic, or highly nonlinear.
  • the genetic algorithm may be used to address problems of mixed integer programming, where some components restricted to being integer-valued.
  • Genetic algorithms and machine learning techniques and systems may be used in computational intelligence systems, computer vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), recommender systems, reinforcement learning, building graphical models, and the like.
  • NLP Natural Language Processing
  • the machine learning systems may be used to perform intelligent computing based control and be responsive to tasks in a wide variety of systems (such as interactive websites and portals, brain-machine interfaces, online security and fraud detection systems, medical applications such as diagnosis and therapy assistance systems, classification of DNA sequences, and the like).
  • machine learning systems may be used in advanced computing applications (such as online advertising, natural language processing, robotics, search engines, software engineering, speech and handwriting recognition, pattern matching, game playing, computational anatomy, bioinformatics systems and the like).
  • machine learning may also be used in financial and marketing systems (such as for user behavior analytics, online advertising, economic estimations, financial market analysis, and the like).
  • a model may be created by a human who has experience with the industrial environment and may be associated with a training data set (such as created by human analysis or machine analysis of data that is collected by the sensors in the environment, or sensors in other similar environments.
  • the learning machine may then operate on other data, initially using a set of rules or elements of a model, such as to provide a variety of outputs, such as classification of data into types, recognition of certain patterns (such as ones indicating the presence of faults, or ones indicating operating conditions, such as fuel efficiency, energy production, or the like).
  • the machine learning facility may take feedback, such as one or more inputs or measures of success, such that it may train, or improve, its initial model (such as by adjusting weights, rules, parameters, or the like, based on the feedback).
  • a model of fuel consumption by an industrial machine may include physical model parameters that characterize weights, motion, resistance, momentum, inertia, acceleration, and other factors that indicate consumption, and chemical model parameters (such as ones that predict energy produced and/or consumed e.g., such as through combustion, through chemical reactions in battery charging and discharging, and the like).
  • the model may be refined by feeding in data from sensors disposed in the environment of a machine, in the machine, and the like, as well as data indicating actual fuel consumption, so that the machine can provide increasingly accurate, sensor -based, estimates of fuel consumption and can also provide output that indicate what changes can be made to increase fuel consumption (such as changing operation parameters of the machine or changing other elements of the environment, such as the ambient temperature, the operation of a nearby machine, or the like). For example, if a resonance effect between two machines is adversely affecting one of them, the model may account for this and automatically provide an output that results in changing the operation of one of the machines (such as to reduce the resonance, to increase fuel efficiency of one or both machines).
  • the machine learning facility may self -organize to provide a highly accurate model of the conditions of an environment (such as for predicting faults, optimizing operational parameters, and the like). This may be used to increase fuel efficiency, to reduce wear, to increase output, to increase operating life, to avoid fault conditions, and for many other purposes.
  • Figure 14 illustrates components and interactions of a data collection architecture involving application of cognitive and machine learning systems to data collection and processing.
  • a data collection system 102 may be disposed in an environment (such as an industrial environment where one or more complex systems, such as electromechanical systems and machines are manufactured, assembled, or operated).
  • the data collection system 102 may include onboard sensors and may take input, such as through one or more input interfaces or ports 4008, from one or more sensors (such as analog or digital sensors of any type disclosed herein) and from one or more input sources 116 (such as sources that may be available through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, or other local network connections or over the Internet). Sensors may be combined and multiplexed (such as with one or more multiplexers 4002).
  • Data may be cached or buffered in a cache/buffer 4022 and made available to external systems, such as a remote host processing system 112 as described elsewhere in this disclosure (which may include an extensive processing architecture 4024, including any of the elements described in connection with other embodiments described throughout this disclosure and in the Figure), though one or more output interfaces and ports 4010 (which may in embodiments be separate from or the same as the input interfaces and ports 4008).
  • a remote host processing system 112 which may include an extensive processing architecture 4024, including any of the elements described in connection with other embodiments described throughout this disclosure and in the Figure
  • the data collection system 102 may be configured to take input from a host processing system 112, such as input from an analytic system 4018, which may operate on data from the data collection system 102 and data from other input sources 116 to provide analytic results, which in turn may be provided as a learning feedback input 4012 to the data collection system, such as to assist in configuration and operation of the data collection system 102.
  • the data collection system 102 may include a policy automation engine 4032 and/or a self organizing network 4030 in communication with other data collection systems 102 as described elsewhere herein.
  • Combination of inputs may be performed under the control of machine-based intelligence, such as using a local cognitive input selection system 4004, an optionally remote cognitive input selection system 4014, or a combination of the two.
  • the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014 may use intelligence and machine learning capabilities described elsewhere in this disclosure, such as using detected conditions (such as informed by the input sources 116 or sensors), state information (including state information determined by a machine state recognition system 4021 that may determine a state), such as relating to an operational state, an environmental state, a state within a known process or workflow, a state involving a fault or diagnostic condition, or many others.
  • This may include optimization of input selection and configuration based on learning feedback from the learning feedback system 4012, which may include providing training data (such as from the host processing system 112 or from other data collection systems 102 either directly or from the host processing system 112) and may include providing feedback metrics, such as success metrics calculated within the analytic system 4018 of the host processing system 112.
  • metrics relating to such results from the analytic system 4018 can be provided via the learning feedback system 4012 to the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014 to help configure future data collection to select that combination in those conditions (allowing other input sources to be de-selected, such as by powering down the other sensors).
  • selection and de-selection of sensor combinations may occur with automated variation, such as using genetic programming techniques, such that over time, based on learning feedback 4012, such as from the analytic system 4018, effective combinations for a given state or set of conditions are promoted, and less effective combinations are demoted, resulting in progressive optimization and adaptation of the local data collection system to each unique environment.
  • automated variation such as using genetic programming techniques, such that over time, based on learning feedback 4012, such as from the analytic system 4018, effective combinations for a given state or set of conditions are promoted, and less effective combinations are demoted, resulting in progressive optimization and adaptation of the local data collection system to each unique environment.
  • Performance parameters may relate to overall system metrics (such as financial yields, process optimization results, energy production or usage, and the like), analytic metrics (such as success in recognizing patterns, making predictions, classifying data, or the like), and local system metrics (such as bandwidth utilization, storage utilization, power consumption, and the like).
  • the analytic system 4018, the state system 4021, the policy automation engine 4032, and the cognitive input selection system 4014 of a host may take data from multiple data collection systems 102, such that optimization (including of input selection) may be undertaken through coordinated operation of multiple systems 102.
  • the cognitive input selection system 4014 may understand that if one data collection system 102 is already collecting vibration data for an X-axis, the X-axis vibration sensor for the other data collection system might be turned off, in favor of getting Y-axis data from the other data collector 102.
  • the activity of multiple collectors 102, across a host of different sensors can provide for a rich data set for the host processing system 112, without wasting energy, bandwidth, storage space, or the like.
  • optimization may be based on overall system success metrics, analytic success metrics, and local system metrics, or a combination of the above.
  • machine learning may take advantage of a state machine, such as tracking states of multiple analog and/or digital sensors, feeding the states into a pattern analysis facility, and determining anticipated states of the industrial system based on historical data about sequences of state information. For example, where a temperature state of an industrial machine exceeds a certain threshold and is followed by a fault condition, such as breaking down of a set of bearings, that temperature state may be tracked by a pattern recognizer, which may produce an output data structure indicating an anticipated bearing fault state (whenever an input state of a high temperature is recognized).
  • a state machine such as tracking states of multiple analog and/or digital sensors, feeding the states into a pattern analysis facility, and determining anticipated states of the industrial system based on historical data about sequences of state information. For example, where a temperature state of an industrial machine exceeds a certain threshold and is followed by a fault condition, such as breaking down of a set of bearings, that temperature state may be tracked by a pattern recognizer, which may produce an output data structure indicating an anticipated bearing fault state (whenever
  • a wide range of measurement values and anticipated states may be managed by a state machine, relating to temperature, pressure, vibration, acceleration, momentum, inertia, friction, heat, heat flux, galvanic states, magnetic field states, electrical field states, capacitance states, charge and discharge states, motion, position, and many others.
  • States may comprise combined states, where a data structure includes a series of states, each of which is represented by a place in a byte-like data structure.
  • an industrial machine may be characterized by a genetic structure, such as one that provides pressure, temperature, vibration, and acoustic data, the measurement of which takes one place in the data structure, so that the combined state can be operated on as a byte-like structure, such as for compactly characterizing the current combined state of the machine or environment, or compactly characterizing the anticipated state.
  • This byte-like structure can be used by a state machine for machine learning, such as by pattern recognition that operates on the structure to determine patterns that reflect combined effects of multiple conditions.
  • a wide variety of such structure can be tracked and used, such as in machine learning, representing various combinations, of various length, of the different elements that can be sensed in an industrial environment.
  • byte-like structures can be used in a genetic programming technique, such as by substituting different types of data, or data from varying sources, and tracking outcomes over time, so that one or more favorable structures emerges based on the success of those structures when used in real world situations, such as indicating successful predictions of anticipated states, or achievement of success operational outcomes, such as increased efficiency, successful routing of information, achieving increased profits, or the like.
  • a genetic programming-based machine learning facility can "evolve" a set of data structures, consisting of a favorable mix of data types (e.g., pressure, temperature, and vibration), from a favorable mix of data sources (e.g., temperature is derived from sensor X, while vibration comes from sensor Y), for a given purpose.
  • data types e.g., pressure, temperature, and vibration
  • a favorable mix of data sources e.g., temperature is derived from sensor X, while vibration comes from sensor Y
  • Different desired outcomes may result in different data structures that are best adapted to support effective achievement of those outcomes over time with application of machine learning and promotion of structures with favorable results for the desired outcome in question by genetic programming.
  • the promoted data structures may provide compact, efficient data for various activities as described throughout this disclosure, including being stored in data pools (which may be optimized by storing favorable data structures that provide the best operational results for a given environment), being presented in data marketplaces (such as being presented as the most effective structures for a given purpose), and the like.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • the host processing system 1 12, such as disposed in the cloud may include the state system 4021, which may be used to infer or calculate a current state or to determine an anticipated future state relating to the data collection system 102 or some aspect of the environment in which the data collection system 102 is disposed, such as the state of a machine, a component, a workflow, a process, an event (e.g., whether the event has occurred), an object, a person, a condition, a function, or the like. Maintaining state information allows the host processing system 112 to undertake analysis, such as in one or more analytic systems 4018, to determine contextual information, to apply semantic and conditional logic, and perform many other functions as enabled by the processing architecture 4024 described throughout this disclosure.
  • a platform having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • the platform 100 includes (or is integrated with, or included in) the host processing system 112, such as on a cloud platform, a policy automation engine 4032 for automating creation, deployment, and management of policies to IoT devices.
  • polices which may include access policies, network usage policies, storage usage policies, bandwidth usage policies, device connection policies, security policies, rule-based policies, role-based polices, and others, may be required to govern the use of IoT devices.
  • an intelligent policy automation engine 4032 may include cognitive features for creating, configuring, and managing policies.
  • the policy automation engine 4032 may consume information about possible policies, such as from a policy database or library, which may include one or more public sources of available policies. These may be written in one or more conventional policy languages or scripts.
  • the policy automation engine 4032 may apply the policies according to one or more models, such as based on the characteristics of a given device, machine, or environment. For example, a large machine, such as for power generation, may include a policy that only a verifiably local controller can change certain parameters of the power generation, thereby avoiding a remote "takeover" by a hacker. This may be accomplished in turn by automatically finding and applying security policies that bar connection of the control infrastructure of the machine to the Internet, by requiring access authentication, or the like.
  • the policy automation engine 4032 may include cognitive features, such as varying the application of policies, the configuration of policies, and the like (such as based on state information from the state system 4021).
  • the policy automation engine 4032 may take feedback, as from the learning feedback system 4012, such as based on one or more analytic results from the analytic system 4018, such as based on overall system results (such as the extent of security breaches, policy violations, and the like), local results, and analytic results. By variation and selection based on such feedback, the policy automation engine 4032 can, over time, learn to automatically create, deploy, configure, and manage policies across very large numbers of devices, such as managing policies for configuration of connections among IoT devices.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices, including on-device sensor fusion and data storage for an industrial IoT device, where data from multiple sensors is multiplexed at the device for storage of a fused data stream.
  • pressure and temperature data may be multiplexed into a data stream that combines pressure and temperature in a time series, such as in a byte-like structure (where time, pressure, and temperature are bytes in a data structure, so that pressure and temperature remain linked in time, without requiring separate processing of the streams by outside systems), or by adding, dividing, multiplying, subtracting, or the like, such that the fused data can be stored on the device.
  • Any of the sensor data types described throughout this disclosure can be fused in this manner and stored in a local data pool, in storage, or on an IoT device, such as a data collector, a component of a machine, or the like.
  • a platform having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a cognitive system is used for a self-organizing storage system 4028 for the data collection system 102.
  • Sensor data and in particular analog sensor data, can consume large amounts of storage capacity, in particular where a data collector 102 has multiple sensor inputs onboard or from the local environment. Simply storing all the data indefinitely is not typically a favorable option, and even transmitting all of the data may strain bandwidth limitations, exceed bandwidth permissions (such as exceeding cellular data plan capacity), or the like. Accordingly, storage strategies are needed.
  • the self -organizing storage system 4028 may use a cognitive system, based on learning feedback 4012, and use various metrics from the analytic system 4018 or other system of the host cognitive input selection system 4114, such as overall system metrics, analytic metrics, and local performance indicators.
  • the self-organizing storage system 4028 may automatically vary storage parameters, such as storage locations (including local storage on the data collection system 102, storage on nearby data collection systems 102 (such as using peer-to-peer organization) and remote storage, such as network-based storage), storage amounts, storage duration, type of data stored (including individual sensors or input sources 116, as well as various combined or multiplexed data, such as selected under the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014), storage type (such as using RAM, Flash, or other short-term memory versus available hard drive space), storage organization (such as in raw form, in hierarchies, and the like), and others.
  • storage parameters such as storage locations (including local storage on the data collection system 102, storage on nearby data collection systems 102 (such as using peer-to-peer organization) and remote storage, such as network-based storage), storage amounts, storage duration, type of data stored (including individual sensors or input sources 116, as well as various combined or multiplexed data, such as selected under the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014), storage type (such as
  • Variation of the parameters may be undertaken with feedback, so that over time the data collection system 102 adapts its storage of data to optimize itself to the conditions of its environment, such as a particular industrial environment, in a way that results in its storing the data that is needed in the right amounts and of the right type for availability to users.
  • the local cognitive input selection system 4004 may organize fusion of data for various onboard sensors, external sensors (such as in the local environment) and other input sources 116 to the local collection system 102 into one or more fused data streams, such as using the multiplexer 4002 to create various signals that represent combinations, permutations, mixes, layers, abstractions, data-metadata combinations, and the like of the source analog and/or digital data that is handled by the data collection system 102.
  • the selection of a particular fusion of sensors may be determined locally by the cognitive input selection system 4004, such as based on learning feedback from the learning feedback system 4012, such as various overall system, analytic system and local system results and metrics.
  • the system may learn to fuse particular combinations and permutations of sensors, such as in order to best achieve correct anticipation of state, as indicated by feedback of the analytic system 4018 regarding its ability to predict future states, such as the various states handled by the state system 4021.
  • the cognitive input selection system 4004 may indicate selection of a sub-set of sensors among a larger set of available sensors, and the inputs from the selected sensors may be combined, such as by placing input from each of them into a byte of a defined, multi-bit data structure (such as by taking a signal from each at a given sampling rate or time and placing the result into the byte structure, then collecting and processing the bytes over time), by multiplexing in the multiplexer 4002, such as by additive mixing of continuous signals, and the like.
  • any of a wide range of signal processing and data processing techniques for combination and fusing may be used, including convolutional techniques, coercion techniques, transformation techniques, and the like.
  • the particular fusion in question may be adapted to a given situation by cognitive learning, such as by having the cognitive input selection system 4004 learn, based on learning feedback 4012 from results (such as conveyed by the analytic system 4018), such that the local data collection system 102 executes context-adaptive sensor fusion.
  • the data collection system 102 may comprise self organizing storage 4028.
  • the analytic system 4018 may apply to any of a wide range of analytic techniques, including statistical and econometric techniques (such as linear regression analysis, use similarity matrices, heat map based techniques, and the like), reasoning techniques (such as Bayesian reasoning, rule-based reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the like), iterative techniques (such as feedback, recursion, feed-forward and other techniques), signal processing techniques (such as Fourier and other transforms), pattern recognition techniques (such as Kalman and other filtering techniques), search techniques, probabilistic techniques (such as random walks, random forest algorithms, and the like), simulation techniques (such as random walks, random forest algorithms, linear optimization and the like), and others. This may include computation of various statistics or measures.
  • statistical and econometric techniques such as linear regression analysis, use similarity matrices, heat map based techniques, and the like
  • reasoning techniques such as Bayesian reasoning, rule-based reasoning, inductive reasoning, and the like
  • iterative techniques such as feedback, recursion, feed-forward and other
  • the analytic system 4018 may be disposed, at least in part, on a data collection system 102, such that a local analytic system can calculate one or more measures, such as relating to any of the items noted throughout this disclosure. For example, measures of efficiency, power utilization, storage utilization, redundancy, entropy, and other factors may be calculated onboard, so that the data collection 102 can enable various cognitive and learning functions noted throughout this disclosure without dependence on a remote (e.g., cloud-based) analytic system.
  • measures of efficiency, power utilization, storage utilization, redundancy, entropy, and other factors may be calculated onboard, so that the data collection 102 can enable various cognitive and learning functions noted throughout this disclosure without dependence on a remote (e.g., cloud-based) analytic system.
  • the host processing system 112, a data collection system 102, or both may include, connect to, or integrate with, a self -organizing networking system 4031, which may comprise a cognitive system for providing machine- based, intelligent or organization of network utilization for transport of data in a data collection system, such as for handling analog and other sensor data, or other source data, such as among one or more local data collection systems 102 and a host processing system 112.
  • a self -organizing networking system 4031 may comprise a cognitive system for providing machine- based, intelligent or organization of network utilization for transport of data in a data collection system, such as for handling analog and other sensor data, or other source data, such as among one or more local data collection systems 102 and a host processing system 112.
  • This may include organizing network utilization for source data delivered to data collection systems, for feedback data, such as analytic data provided to or via a learning feedback system 4012, data for supporting a marketplace (such as described in connection with other embodiments), and output data provided via output interfaces and ports 4010 from one or more
  • a marketplace may be set up initially to make available data collected from one or more industrial environments, such as presenting data by type, by source, by environment, by machine, by one or more patterns, or the like (such as in a menu or hierarchy).
  • the marketplace may vary the data collected, the organization of the data, the presentation of the data (including pushing the data to external sites, providing links, configuring APIs by which the data may be accessed, and the like), the pricing of the data, or the like, such as under machine learning, which may vary different parameters of any of the foregoing.
  • the machine learning facility may manage all of these parameters by self-organization, such as by varying parameters over time (including by varying elements of the data types presented, the data sourced used to obtain each type of data, the data structures presented (such as byte-like structures, fused or multiplexed structures (such as representing multiple sensor types), and statistical structures (such as representing various mathematical products of sensor information), among others), the pricing for the data, where the data is presented, how the data is presented (such as by APIs, by links, by push messaging, and the like), how the data is stored, how the data is obtained, and the like.
  • self-organization such as by varying parameters over time (including by varying elements of the data types presented, the data sourced used to obtain each type of data, the data structures presented (such as byte-like structures, fused or multiplexed structures (such as representing multiple sensor types), and statistical structures (such as representing various mathematical products of sensor information), among others), the pricing for the data, where the data is presented, how the data is presented (such as by APIs, by
  • feedback may be obtained as to measures of success, such as number of views, yield (e.g., price paid) per access, total yield, per unit profit, aggregate profit, and many others, and the self- organizing machine learning facility may promote configurations that improve measures of success and demote configurations that do not, so that, over time, the marketplace is progressively configured to present favorable combinations of data types (e.g., ones that provide robust prediction of anticipated states of particular industrial environments of a given type), from favorable sources (e.g., ones that are reliable, accurate and low priced), with effective pricing (e.g., pricing that tends to provide high aggregate profit from the marketplace).
  • measures of success such as number of views, yield (e.g., price paid) per access, total yield, per unit profit, aggregate profit, and many others
  • the self- organizing machine learning facility may promote configurations that improve measures of success and demote configurations that do not, so that, over time, the marketplace is progressively configured to present favorable combinations of data types (e.g., ones that provide robust prediction of anticipated states of particular
  • the marketplace may include spiders, web crawlers, and the like to seek input data sources, such as finding data pools, connected IoT devices, and the like that publish potentially relevant data. These may be trained by human users and improved by machine learning in a manner similar to that described elsewhere in this disclosure.
  • a platform having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform is provided having a cognitive data marketplace 4102, referred to in some cases as a self-organizing data marketplace, for data collected by one or more data collection systems 102 or for data from other sensors or input sources 116 that are located in various data collection environments, such as industrial environments.
  • this may include data collected, handled or exchanged by IoT devices, such as cameras, monitors, embedded sensors, mobile devices, diagnostic devices and systems, instrumentation systems, telematics systems, and the like, such as for monitoring various parameters and features of machines, devices, components, parts, operations, functions, conditions, states, events, workflows and other elements (collectively encompassed by the term "states") of such environments.
  • Data may also include metadata about any of the foregoing, such as describing data, indicating provenance, indicating elements relating to identity, access, roles, and permissions, providing summaries or abstractions of data, or otherwise augmenting one or more items of data to enable further processing, such as for extraction, transforming, loading, and processing data.
  • Such data may be highly valuable to third parties, either as an individual element (such as where data about the state of an environment can be used as a condition within a process) or in the aggregate (such as where collected data, optionally over many systems and devices in different environments can be used to develop models of behavior, to train learning systems, or the like). As billions of IoT devices are deployed, with countless connections, the amount of available data will proliferate.
  • the cognitive data marketplace 4102 enables various components, features, services, and processes for enabling users to supply, find, consume, and transact in packages of data, such as batches of data, streams of data (including event streams), data from various data pools 4120, and the like.
  • the cognitive data marketplace 4102 may be included in, connected to, or integrated with, one or more other components of a host processing architecture 4024 of a host processing system 112, such as a cloud-based system, as well as to various sensors, input sources 116, data collection systems 102 and the like.
  • the cognitive data marketplace 4102 may include marketplace interfaces 4108, which may include one or more supplier interfaces by which data suppliers may make data available and one more consumer interfaces by which data may be found and acquired.
  • the consumer interface may include an interface to a data market search system 4118, which may include features that enable a user to indicate what types of data a user wishes to obtain, such as by entering keywords in a natural language search interface that characterize data or metadata.
  • the search interface can use various search and filtering techniques, including keyword matching, collaborative filtering (such as using known preferences or characteristics of the consumer to match to similar consumers and the past outcomes of those other consumers), ranking techniques (such as ranking based on success of past outcomes according to various metrics, such as those described in connection with other embodiments in this disclosure).
  • a supply interface may allow an owner or supplier of data to supply the data in one or more packages to and through the cognitive data marketplace 4102, such as packaging batches of data, streams of data, or the like.
  • the supplier may pre-package data, such as by providing data from a single input source 116, a single sensor, and the like, or by providing combinations, permutations, and the like (such as multiplexed analog data, mixed bytes of data from multiple sources, results of extraction, loading and transformation, results of convolution, and the like), as well as by providing metadata with respect to any of the foregoing.
  • Packaging may include pricing, such as on a per -batch basis, on a streaming basis (such as subscription to an event feed or other feed or stream), on a per item basis, on a revenue share basis, or other basis.
  • a data transaction system 4114 may track orders, delivery, and utilization, including fulfillment of orders.
  • the transaction system 4114 may include rich transaction features, including digital rights management, such as by managing cryptographic keys that govern access control to purchased data, that govern usage (such as allowing data to be used for a limited time, in a limited domain, by a limited set of users or roles, or for a limited purpose).
  • the transaction system 4114 may manage payments, such as by processing credit cards, wire transfers, debits, and other forms of consideration.
  • a cognitive data packaging system 4110 of the marketplace 4102 may use machine-based intelligence to package data, such as by automatically configuring packages of data in batches, streams, pools, or the like.
  • packaging may be according to one or more rules, models, or parameters, such as by packaging or aggregating data that is likely to supplement or complement an existing model. For example, operating data from a group of similar machines (such as one or more industrial machines noted throughout this disclosure) may be aggregated together, such as based on metadata indicating the type of data or by recognizing features or characteristics in the data stream that indicate the nature of the data.
  • packaging may occur using machine learning and cognitive capabilities, such as by learning what combinations, permutations, mixes, layers, and the like of input sources 116, sensors, information from data pools 4120 and information from data collection systems 102 are likely to satisfy user requirements or result in measures of success.
  • Learning may be based on learning feedback 4012, such as based on measures determined in an analytic system 4018, such as system performance measures, data collection measures, analytic measures, and the like.
  • success measures may be correlated to marketplace success measures, such as viewing of packages, engagement with packages, purchase or licensing of packages, payments made for packages, and the like.
  • Such measures may be calculated in an analytic system 4018, including associating particular feedback measures with search terms and other inputs, so that the cognitive packaging system 4110 can find and configure packages that are designed to provide increased value to consumers and increased returns for data suppliers.
  • the cognitive data packaging system 4110 can automatically vary packaging, such as using different combinations, permutations, mixes, and the like, and varying weights applied to given input sources, sensors, data pools and the like, using learning feedback 4012 to promote favorable packages and de-emphasize less favorable packages. This may occur using genetic programming and similar techniques that compare outcomes for different packages.
  • Feedback may include state information from the state system 4021 (such as about various operating states, and the like), as well as about marketplace conditions and states, such as pricing and availability information for other data sources.
  • an adaptive cognitive data packaging system 4110 is provided that automatically adapts to conditions to provide favorable packages of data for the marketplace 4102.
  • a cognitive data pricing system 4112 may be provided to set pricing for data packages.
  • the cognitive data pricing system 4112 may use a set of rules, models, or the like, such as setting pricing based on supply conditions, demand conditions, pricing of various available sources, and the like.
  • pricing for a package may be configured to be set based on the sum of the prices of constituent elements (such as input sources, sensor data, or the like), or to be set based on a rule-based discount to the sum of prices for constituent elements, or the like.
  • Rules and conditional logic may be applied, such as rules that factor in cost factors (such as bandwidth and network usage, peak demand factors, scarcity factors, and the like), rules that factor in utilization parameters (such as the purpose, domain, user, role, duration, or the like for a package) and many others.
  • the cognitive data pricing system 4112 may include fully cognitive, intelligent features, such as using genetic programming including automatically varying pricing and tracking feedback on outcomes. Outcomes on which tracking feedback may be based include various financial yield metrics, utilization metrics and the like that may be provided by calculating metrics in an analytic system 4018 on data from the data transaction system 4114.
  • a distributed ledger 4104 may track the interactions of the cognitive data marketplace 4102
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for self -organizing data pools which may include self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics, including utilization and/or yield metrics that are tracked for a plurality of data pools.
  • the data pools may initially comprise unstructured or loosely structured pools of data that contain data from industrial environments, such as sensor data from or about industrial machines or components.
  • a data pool might take streams of data from various machines or components in an environment, such as turbines, compressors, batteries, reactors, engines, motors, vehicles, pumps, rotors, axles, bearings, valves, and many others, with the data streams containing analog and/or digital sensor data (of a wide range of types), data published about operating conditions, diagnostic and fault data, identifying data for machines or components, asset tracking data, and many other types of data.
  • Each stream may have an identifier in the pool, such as indicating its source, and optionally its type.
  • the data pool may be accessed by external systems, such as through one or more interfaces or APIs (e.g., RESTful APIs), or by data integration elements (such as gateways, brokers, bridges, connectors, or the like), and the data pool may use similar capabilities to get access to available data streams.
  • a data pool may be managed by a self-organizing machine learning facility, which may configure the data pool, such as by managing what sources are used for the pool, managing what streams are available, and managing APIs or other connections into and out of the data pool.
  • the self-organization may take feedback such as based on measures of success that may include measures of utilization and yield.
  • the measures of utilization and yield may account for the cost of acquiring and/or storing data, as well as the benefits of the pool, measured either by profit or by other measures that may include user indications of usefulness, and the like.
  • a self -organizing data pool might recognize that chemical and radiation data for an energy production environment are regularly accessed and extracted, while vibration and temperature data have not been used, in which case the data pool might automatically reorganize, such as by ceasing storage of vibration and/or temperature data, or by obtaining better sources of such data.
  • This automated reorganization can also apply to data structures, such as promoting different data types, different data sources, different data structures, and the like, through progressive iteration and feedback.
  • a platform having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • the data pools 4120 may be self-organizing data pools 4120, such as being organized by cognitive capabilities as described throughout this disclosure.
  • the data pools 4120 may self -organize in response to learning feedback 4012, such as based on feedback of measures and results, including calculated in an analytic system 4018.
  • a data pool 4020 may learn and adapt, such as based on states of the host processing system 112, one or more data collection systems 102, storage environment parameters (such as capacity, cost, and performance factors), data collection environment parameters, marketplace parameters, and many others.
  • pools 4020 may learn and adapt, such as by variation of the above and other parameters in response to yield metrics (such as return on investment, optimization of power utilization, optimization of revenue, and the like).
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for training AI models based on industry-specific feedback, including training an AI model based on industry-specific feedback that reflects a measure of utilization, yield, or impact, and where the AI model operates on sensor data from an industrial environment.
  • these models may include operating models for industrial environments, machines, workflows, models for anticipating states, models for predicting fault and optimizing maintenance, models for self-organizing storage (on devices, in data pools and/or in the cloud), models for optimizing data transport (such as for optimizing network coding, network-condition-sensitive routing, and the like), models for optimizing data marketplaces, and many others.
  • a platform having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • the various embodiments of cognitive systems disclosed herein may take inputs and feedback from industry- specific and domain-specific sources 116 (such as relating to optimization of specific machines, devices, components, processes, and the like).
  • learning and adaptation of storage organization, network usage, combination of sensor and input data, data pooling, data packaging, data pricing, and other features may be configured by learning on the domain-specific feedback measures of a given environment or application, such as an application involving IoT devices (such as an industrial environment).
  • This may include optimization of efficiency (such as in electrical, electromechanical, magnetic, physical, thermodynamic, chemical and other processes and systems), optimization of outputs (such as for production of energy, materials, products, services and other outputs), prediction, avoidance and mitigation of faults (such as in the aforementioned systems and processes), optimization of performance measures (such as returns on investment, yields, profits, margins, revenues and the like), reduction of costs (including labor costs, bandwidth costs, data costs, material input costs, licensing costs, and many others), optimization of benefits (such as relating to safety, satisfaction, health), optimization of work flows (such as optimizing time and resource allocation to processes), and others.
  • efficiency such as in electrical, electromechanical, magnetic, physical, thermodynamic, chemical and other processes and systems
  • optimization of outputs such as for production of energy, materials, products, services and other outputs
  • prediction avoidance and mitigation of faults
  • optimization of performance measures such as returns on investment, yields, profits, margins, revenues and the like
  • reduction of costs including labor costs, bandwidth costs, data costs, material input costs,
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors, including a self- organizing swarm of industrial data collectors that organize among themselves to optimize data collection based on the capabilities and conditions of the members of the swarm.
  • Each member of the swarm may be configured with intelligence, and the ability to coordinate with other members.
  • a member of the swarm may track information about what data other members are handling, so that data collection activities, data storage, data processing, and data publishing can be allocated intelligently across the swarm, taking into account conditions of the environment, capabilities of the members of the swarm, operating parameters, rules (such as from a rules engine that governs the operation of the swarm), and current conditions of the members.
  • collectors For example, among four collectors, one that has relatively low current power levels (such as a low battery), might be temporarily allocated the role of publishing data, because it may receive a dose of power from a reader or interrogation device (such as an RFID reader) when it needs to publish the data.
  • a second collector with good power levels and robust processing capability might be assigned more complex functions, such as processing data, fusing data, organizing the rest of the swarm (including self-organization under machine learning, such that the swarm is optimized over time, including by adjusting operating parameters, rules, and the like based on feedback), and the like.
  • a third collector in the swarm with robust storage capabilities might be assigned the task of collecting and storing a category of data, such as vibration sensor data, that consumes considerable bandwidth.
  • a fourth collector in the swarm might be assigned the role of collecting data that can usually be discarded, such as data on current diagnostic conditions, where only data on faults needs to be maintained and passed along.
  • Members of a swarm may connect by peer- to-peer relationships by using a member as a "master" or “hub,” or by having them connect in a series or ring, where each member passes along data (including commands) to the next, and is aware of the nature of the capabilities and commands that are suitable for the preceding and/or next member.
  • the swarm may be used for allocation of storage across it (such as using memory of each memory as an aggregate data store.
  • the aggregate data store may support a distributed ledger, which may store transaction data, such as for transactions involving data collected by the swarm, transactions occurring in the industrial environment, or the like.
  • the transaction data may also include data used to manage the swarm, the environment, or a machine or components thereof.
  • the swarm may self-organize, either by machine learning capability disposed on one or more members of the swarm, or based on instructions from an external machine learning facility, which may optimize storage, data collection, data processing, data presentation, data transport, and other functions based on managing parameters that are relevant to each.
  • the machine learning facility may start with an initial configuration and vary parameters of the swarm relevant to any of the foregoing (also including varying the membership of the swarm), such as iterating based on feedback to the machine learning facility regarding measures of success (such as utilization measures, efficiency measures, measures of success in prediction or anticipation of states, productivity measures, yield measures, profit measures, and others). Over time, the swarm may be optimized to a favorable configuration to achieve the desired measure of success for an owner, operator, or host of an industrial environment or a machine, component, or process thereof.
  • measures of success such as utilization measures, efficiency measures, measures of success in prediction or anticipation of states, productivity measures, yield measures, profit measures, and others.
  • a platform having a self-organized swarm 4202 of industrial data collection systems 102.
  • a host processing system 112 with its processing architecture 4024 may integrate with, connect to, or use information from a self -organizing swarm 4202 of data collection systems 102.
  • the self -organizing swarm 4202 may organize (such as through deployment of cognitive features on one or more of the data collection systems 102) two or more data collection systems 102, such as to provided coordination of the swarm 4202.
  • the swarm 4202 may be organized based on a hierarchical organization (such as where a master data collection system 102 organizes and directs activities of one or more subservient data collection systems 102), a collaborative organization (such as where decision-making for the organization of the swarm 4202 is distributed among the data collection systems 102 (such as using various models for decision-making, such as voting systems, points systems, least-cost routing systems, prioritization systems, and the like, and the like.
  • one or more of the data collection systems 102 may have mobility capabilities, such as in cases where a data collection system is disposed on or in a mobile robot, drone, mobile submersible, or the like, so that organization may include the location and positioning of the data collectors 102.
  • Data collection systems 102 may communicate with each other and with the host processing system 112, including sharing an aggregate allocated storage space involving storage on or accessible to one or more of the collectors (which in embodiment may be treated as a unified storage space even if physically distributed, such as using virtualization capabilities).
  • Organization may be automated based on one or more rules, models, conditions, processes, or the like (such as embodied or executed by conditional logic), and organization may be governed by policies, such as handled by the policy engine. Rules may be based on industry, application- and domain-specific objects, classes, events, workflows, processes, and systems, such as by setting up the swarm 4202 to collect selected types of data at designated places and times, such as coordinated with the foregoing.
  • the swarm 4202 may assign data collection systems 102 to serially collect diagnostic, sensor, instrumentation and/or telematic data from each of a series of machines that execute an industrial process (such as a robotic manufacturing process), such as at the time and location of the input to and output from each of those machines.
  • self-organization may be cognitive, such as where the swarm varies one or more collection parameters and adapts the selection of parameters, weights applied to the parameters, or the like, over time.
  • this may be in response to learning and feedback, such as from the learning feedback system 4012 that may be based on various feedback measures that may be determined by applying the analytic system 4018 (which in embodiments may reside on the swarm 4202, the host processing system 112, or a combination thereof) and/or the cognitive input selection system 4014 to data handled by the swarm 4202 or to other elements of the various embodiments disclosed herein (including marketplace elements and others).
  • the swarm 4202 may display adaptive behavior, such as adapting to the current state 4021 or an anticipated state of its environment (accounting for marketplace behavior), behavior of various objects (such as IoT devices, machines, components, and systems), processes (including events, states, workflows, and the like), and other factors at a given time.
  • Parameters that may be varied in a process of variation may include storage parameters (location, type, duration, amount, structure and the like across the swarm 4202), network parameters (such as how the swarm 4202 is organized, such as in mesh, peer-to-peer, ring, serial, hierarchical and other network configurations as well as bandwidth utilization, data routing, network protocol selection, network coding type, and other networking parameters), security parameters (such as settings for various security applications and services), location and positioning parameters (such as routing movement of mobile data collection systems 102 to locations, positioning and orienting collectors 102 and the like relative to points of data acquisition, relative to each other, and relative to locations where network availability may be favorable, among others), input selection parameters (such as input selection among sensors, input sources 116 and the like for each data collection systems 102 and
  • a distributed ledger may distribute storage across devices, using a secure protocol, such as ones used for cryptocurrencies (such as the BlockchainTM protocol used to support the BitcoinTM currency).
  • a ledger or similar transaction record which may comprise a structure where each successive member of a chain stores data for previous transactions, and a competition can be established to determine which of alternative data stored data structures is "best" (such as being most complete), can be stored across data collectors, industrial machines or components, data pools, data marketplaces, cloud computing elements, servers, and/or on the IT infrastructure of an enterprise (such as an owner, operator or host of an industrial environment or of the systems disclosed herein).
  • the ledger or transaction may be optimized by machine learning, such as to provide storage efficiency, security, redundancy, or the like.
  • the cognitive data marketplace 4102 may use a secure architecture for tracking and resolving transactions, such as a distributed ledger 4004, wherein transactions in data packages are tracked in a chained, distributed data structure, such as a BlockchainTM, allowing forensic analysis and validation where individual devices store a portion of the ledger representing transactions in data packages.
  • the distributed ledger 4004 may be distributed to IoT devices, to data pools 4020, to data collection systems 102, and the like, so that transaction information can be verified without reliance on a single, central repository of information.
  • the transaction system 4114 may be configured to store data in the distributed ledger 4004 and to retrieve data from it (and from constituent devices) in order to resolve transactions.
  • a distributed ledger 4004 for handling transactions in data, such as for packages of IoT data is provided.
  • the self -organizing storage system 4028 may be used for optimizing storage of distributed ledger data, as well as for organizing storage of packages of data, such as IoT data, that can be presented in the marketplace 4102.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a network-sensitive collector, including a network condition-sensitive, self-organizing, multi-sensor data collector that can optimize based on bandwidth, quality of service, pricing and/or other network conditions.
  • Network sensitivity can include awareness of the price of data transport (such as allowing the system to pull or push data during off-peak periods or within the available parameters of paid data plans), the quality of the network (such as to avoid periods where errors are likely), the quality of environmental conditions (such as delaying transmission until signal quality is good, such as when a collector emerges from a shielded environment, avoiding wasting use of power when seeking a signal when shielded, such as by large metal structures typically of industrial environments), and the like.
  • a remotely organized universal data collector that can power up and down sensor interfaces based on need and/or conditions identified in an industrial data collection environment.
  • interfaces can recognize what sensors are available and interfaces and/or processors can be turned on to take input from such sensors, including hardware interfaces that allow the sensors to plug in to the data collector, wireless data interfaces (such as where the collector can ping the sensor, optionally providing some power via an interrogation signal), and software interfaces (such as for handling particular types of data).
  • a collector that is capable of handling various kinds of data can be configured to adapt to the particular use in a given environment.
  • configuration may be automatic or under machine learning, which may improve configuration by optimizing parameters based on feedback measures over time.
  • Self-organizing storage may allocate storage based on application of machine learning, which may improve storage configuration based on feedback measure over time.
  • Storage may be optimized by configuring what data types are used (e.g., byte-like structures, structures representing fused data from multiple sensors, structures representing statistics or measures calculated by applying mathematical functions on data, and the like) by configuring compression, by configuring data storage duration, by configuring write strategies (such as by striping data across multiple storage devices, using protocols where one device stores instructions for other devices in a chain, and the like), and by configuring storage hierarchies, such as by providing pre-calculated intermediate statistics to facilitate more rapid access to frequently accessed data items).
  • data types e.g., byte-like structures, structures representing fused data from multiple sensors, structures representing statistics or measures calculated by applying mathematical functions on data, and the like
  • compression e.g., byte-like structures, structures representing fused data from multiple sensors, structures representing statistics or measures calculated by applying mathematical functions on data, and the like
  • write strategies such as by striping data across multiple storage devices, using protocols where one device stores instructions for other devices in a chain, and the like
  • storage hierarchies such as by providing
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for self -organizing network coding for a multi-sensor data network, including self -organizing network coding for a data network that transports data from multiple sensors in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Network coding including random linear network coding, can enable highly efficient and reliable transport of large amounts of data over various kinds of networks.
  • Different network coding configurations can be selected, based on machine learning, to optimize network coding and other network transport characteristics based on network conditions, environmental conditions, and other factors, such as the nature of the data being transported, environmental conditions, operating conditions, and the like (including by training a network coding selection model over time based on feedback of measures of success, such as any of the measures described herein).
  • a platform having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a cognitive system may vary one or more parameters for networking, such as network type selection (e.g., selecting among available local, cellular, satellite, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, Zigbee and other networks), network selection (such as selecting a specific network, such as one that is known to have desired security features), network coding selection (such as selecting a type of network coding for efficient transport[such as random linear network coding, fixed coding, and others]), network timing selection (such as configuring delivery based on network pricing conditions, traffic and the like), network feature selection (such as selecting cognitive features, security features, and the like), network conditions (such as network quality based on current environmental or operation conditions), network feature selection (such as enabling available authentication, permission and similar systems), network protocol selection (such as among HTTP, IP, TCP/IP, cellular, satellite, serial, packet, streaming, and many other protocols), and others.
  • network type selection e.g., selecting among available local, cellular
  • the self-organizing networking system 4030 may vary combinations and permutations of these parameters while taking input from a learning feedback system 4012 such as using information from the analytic system 4018 about various measures of outcomes.
  • outcomes may include overall system measures, analytic success measures, and local performance indicators.
  • input from a learning feedback system 4012 may include information from various sensors and input sources 116, information from the state system 4021 about states (such as events, environmental conditions, operating conditions, and many others), or other information) or taking other inputs.
  • the self-organizing networking system may find configurations that are well-adapted to the environment that is being monitored or controlled by the host system 112, such as the one where one or more data collection systems 102 are located and that are well-adapted to emerging network conditions.
  • a self -organizing, network-condition-adaptive data collection system is provided.
  • a data collection system 102 may have one or more output interfaces and/or ports 4010. These may include network ports and connections, application programming interfaces, and the like.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a haptic or multi-sensory user interface, including a wearable haptic or multi-sensory user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • an interface may, based on a data structure configured to support it, be set up to provide a user with input or feedback, such as based on data from sensors in the environment.
  • a fault condition based on a vibration data (such as resulting from a bearing being worn down, an axle being misaligned, or a resonance condition between machines) is detected, it can be presented in a haptic interface by vibration of an interface, such as shaking a wrist-worn device.
  • thermal data indicating overheating could be presented by warming or cooling a wearable device, such as while a worker is working on a machine and cannot necessarily look at a user interface.
  • electrical, or magnetic data may be presented by a buzzing, and the like, such as to indicate presence of an open electrical connection or wire, etc.
  • a multi-sensory interface can intuitively help a user (such as one wearing a wearable device) get a quick indication of what is going on in an environment, with the wearable interface having various modes of interaction that do not require a user to have eyes on a graphical UI, which may be difficult or impossible in many industrial environments where a user needs to keep an eye on the environment.
  • a platform having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a haptic user interface 4302 is provided as an output for a data collection system 102, such as for handling and providing information for vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs, such as to one or more components of the data collection system 102 or to another system, such as a wearable device, mobile phone, or the like.
  • a data collection system 102 may be provided in a form factor suitable for delivering haptic input to a user, such as by vibrating, warming or cooling, buzzing, or the like, such as being disposed in headgear, an armband, a wristband or watch, a belt, an item of clothing, a uniform, or the like.
  • data collection systems 102 may be integrated with gear, uniforms, equipment, or the like worn by users, such as individuals responsible for operating or monitoring an industrial environment.
  • signals from various sensors or input sources (or selective combinations, permutations, mixes, and the like, as managed by one or more of the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014) may trigger haptic feedback.
  • the haptic interface may alert a user by warming up, or by sending a signal to another device (such as a mobile phone) to warm up. If a system is experiencing unusual vibrations, the haptic interface may vibrate.
  • a data collection system 102 may inform users of the need to attend to one or more devices, machines, or other factors (such as in an industrial environment) without requiring them to read messages or divert their visual attention away from the task at hand.
  • the haptic interface, and selection of what outputs should be provided, may be considered in the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014.
  • user behavior (such as responses to inputs) may be monitored and analyzed in an analytic system 4018, and feedback may be provided through the learning feedback system 4012, so that signals may be provided based on the right collection or package of sensors and inputs, at the right time and in the right manner, to optimize the effectiveness of the haptic system4302.
  • This may include rule-based or model-based feedback (such as providing outputs that correspond in some logical fashion to the source data that is being conveyed).
  • a cognitive haptic system may be provided, where selection of inputs or triggers for haptic feedback, selection of outputs, timing, intensity levels, durations, and other parameters (or weights applied to them) may be varied in a process of variation, promotion, and selection (such as using genetic programming) with feedback based on real world responses to feedback in actual situations or based on results of simulation and testing of user behavior.
  • an adaptive haptic interface for a data collection system 102 is provided, which may learn and adapt feedback to satisfy requirements and to optimize the impact on user behavior, such as for overall system outcomes, data collection outcomes, analytic outcomes, and the like.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a presentation layer for AR/VR industrial glasses, where heat map elements are presented based on patterns and/or parameters in collected data.
  • Methods and systems are disclosed herein for condition-sensitive, self-organized tuning of AR/VR interfaces based on feedback metrics and/or training in industrial environments.
  • any of the data, measures, and the like described throughout this disclosure can be presented by visual elements, overlays, and the like for presentation in the AR/VR interfaces, such as in industrial glasses, on AR/VR interfaces on smart phones or tablets, on AR/VR interfaces on data collectors (which may be embodied in smart phones or tablets), on displays located on machines or components, and/or on displays located in industrial environments.
  • a platform having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having heat maps 4304displaying collected data from a data collection system 102 for providing input to a tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308.
  • the heat map interface 4304 is provided as an output for a data collection system 102, such as for handling and providing information for visualization of various sensor data and other data (such as map data, analog sensor data, and other data), such as to one or more components of the data collection system 102 or to another system, such as a mobile device, tablet, dashboard, computer, AR/VR device, or the like.
  • a data collection system 102 may be provided in a form factor suitable for delivering visual input to a user, such as by presenting a map that includes indicators of levels of analog and digital sensor data (such as indicating levels of rotation, vibration, heating or cooling, pressure, and many other conditions).
  • data collection systems 102 may be integrated with equipment, or the like that are used by individuals responsible for operating or monitoring an industrial environment.
  • signals from various sensors or input sources (or selective combinations, permutations, mixes, and the like, as managed by one or more of the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014) may provide input data to a heat map.
  • Coordinates may include real world location coordinates (such as geo-location or location on a map of an environment), as well as other coordinates, such as time-based coordinates, frequency-based coordinates, or other coordinates that allow for representation of analog sensor signals, digital signals, input source information, and various combinations, in a map-based visualization, such that colors may represent varying levels of input along the relevant dimensions. For example, if a nearby industrial machine is overheating, the heat map interface may alert a user by showing a machine in bright red. If a system is experiencing unusual vibrations, the heat map interface may show a different color for a visual element for the machine, or it may cause an icon or display element representing the machine to vibrate in the interface, calling attention to the element.
  • real world location coordinates such as geo-location or location on a map of an environment
  • other coordinates such as time-based coordinates, frequency-based coordinates, or other coordinates that allow for representation of analog sensor signals, digital signals, input source information, and various combinations, in a map-based visualization, such
  • a data collection system 102 may inform users of the need to attend to one or more devices, machines, or other factors, such as in an industrial environment, without requiring them to read text -based messages or input.
  • the heat map interface, and selection of what outputs should be provided, may be considered in the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014.
  • user behavior (such as responses to inputs or displays) may be monitored and analyzed in an analytic system 4018, and feedback may be provided through the learning feedback system 4012, so that signals may be provided based on the right collection or package of sensors and inputs, at the right time and in the right manner, to optimize the effectiveness of the heat map UI 4304.
  • This may include rule-based or model-based feedback (such as providing outputs that correspond in some logical fashion to the source data that is being conveyed).
  • a cognitive heat map system may be provided, where selection of inputs or triggers for heat map displays, selection of outputs, colors, visual representation elements, timing, intensity levels, durations and other parameters (or weights applied to them) may be varied in a process of variation, promotion and selection (such as using genetic programming) with feedback based on real world responses to feedback in actual situations or based on results of simulation and testing of user behavior.
  • an adaptive heat map interface for a data collection system 102, or data collected thereby 102, or data handled by a host processing system 112 is provided, which may learn and adapt feedback to satisfy requirements and to optimize the impact on user behavior and reaction, such as for overall system outcomes, data collection outcomes, analytic outcomes, and the like.
  • a platform having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform is provided having an automatically tuned AR/VR visualization system for visualization of data collected by a data collection system 102, such as where the data collection system 102 has an tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308 or provides input to tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308 (such as a mobile phone positioned in a virtual reality or AR headset, a set of AR glasses, or the like).
  • the tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308 is provided as an output interface of a data collection system 102, such as for handling and providing information for visualization of various sensor data and other data (such as map data, analog sensor data, and other data), such as to one or more components of the data collection system 102 or to another system, such as a mobile device, tablet, dashboard, computer, AR/VR device, or the like.
  • a data collection system 102 such as for handling and providing information for visualization of various sensor data and other data (such as map data, analog sensor data, and other data), such as to one or more components of the data collection system 102 or to another system, such as a mobile device, tablet, dashboard, computer, AR/VR device, or the like.
  • a data collection system 102 may be provided in a form factor suitable for delivering AR or VR visual, auditory, or other sensory input to a user, such as by presenting one or more displays (such as 3D-realistic visualizations, objects, maps, camera overlays, or other overlay elements, maps and the like that include or correspond to indicators of levels of analog and digital sensor data (such as indicating levels of rotation, vibration, heating or cooling, pressure and many other conditions, to input sources 116, or the like).
  • displays such as 3D-realistic visualizations, objects, maps, camera overlays, or other overlay elements, maps and the like that include or correspond to indicators of levels of analog and digital sensor data (such as indicating levels of rotation, vibration, heating or cooling, pressure and many other conditions, to input sources 116, or the like).
  • data collection systems 102 may be integrated with equipment, or the like that are used by individuals responsible for operating or monitoring an industrial environment.
  • signals from various sensors or input sources may provide input data to populate, configure, modify, or otherwise determine the AR/VR element.
  • Visual elements may include a wide range of icons, map elements, menu elements, sliders, toggles, colors, shapes, sizes, and the like, for representation of analog sensor signals, digital signals, input source information, and various combinations.
  • colors, shapes, and sizes of visual overlay elements may represent varying levels of input along the relevant dimensions for a sensor or combination of sensors.
  • an AR element may alert a user by showing an icon representing that type of machine in flashing red color in a portion of the display of a pair of AR glasses.
  • a virtual reality interface showing visualization of the components of the machine may show a vibrating component in a highlighted color, with motion, or the like, so that it stands out in a virtual reality environment being used to help a user monitor or service the machine. Clicking, touching, moving eyes toward, or otherwise interacting with a visual element in an AR/VR interface may allow a user to drill down and see underlying sensor or input data that is used as an input to the display.
  • a data collection system 102 may inform users of the need to attend to one or more devices, machines, or other factors (such as in an industrial environment), without requiring them to read text-based messages or input or divert attention from the applicable environment (whether it is a real environment with AR features or a virtual environment, such as for simulation, training, or the like).
  • the AR/VR output interface 4208 and selection and configuration of what outputs or displays should be provided, may be handled in the cognitive input selection systems 4004, 4014.
  • user behavior such as responses to inputs or displays
  • feedback may be provided through the learning feedback system 4012, so that AR/VR display signals may be provided based on the right collection or package of sensors and inputs, at the right time and in the right manner, to optimize the effectiveness of the tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308.
  • This may include rule-based or model-based feedback (such as providing outputs that correspond in some logical fashion to the source data that is being conveyed).
  • a cognitively tuned AR/VR interface control system 4308 may be provided, where selection of inputs or triggers for AR/VR display elements, selection of outputs (such as colors, visual representation elements, timing, intensity levels, durations and other parameters [or weights applied to them]) and other parameters of a VR/AR environment may be varied in a process of variation, promotion and selection (such as using genetic programming) with feedback based on real world responses in actual situations or based on results of simulation and testing of user behavior.
  • an adaptive, tuned AR/VR interface for a data collection system 102, or data collected thereby 102, or data handled by a host processing system 112 is provided, which may learn and adapt feedback to satisfy requirements and to optimize the impact on user behavior and reaction, such as for overall system outcomes, data collection outcomes, analytic outcomes, and the like.
  • Embodiments include using continuous ultrasonic monitoring of an industrial environment as a source for a cloud-deployed pattern recognizer.
  • Embodiments include using continuous ultrasonic monitoring to provide updated state information to a state machine that is used as an input to a cloud-based pattern recognizer.
  • Embodiments include making available continuous ultrasonic monitoring information to a user based on a policy declared in a policy engine.
  • Embodiments include storing ultrasonic continuous monitoring data with other data in a fused data structure on an industrial sensor device.
  • Embodiments include making a stream of continuous ultrasonic monitoring data from an industrial environment available as a service from a data marketplace. Embodiments include feeding a stream of continuous ultrasonic data into a self-organizing data pool. Embodiments include training a machine learning model to monitor a continuous ultrasonic monitoring data stream where the model is based on a training set created from human analysis of such a data stream, and is improved based on data collected on performance in an industrial environment. Embodiments include a swarm of data collectors 4202 that include at least one data collector for continuous ultrasonic monitoring of an industrial environment and at least one other type of data collector. Embodiments include using a distributed ledger to store time-series data from continuous ultrasonic monitoring across multiple devices. Embodiments include collecting a stream of continuous ultrasonic data in a self-organizing data collector. Embodiments include collecting a stream of continuous ultrasonic data in a network-sensitive data collector.
  • Embodiments include collecting a stream of continuous ultrasonic data in a remotely organized data collector.
  • Embodiments include collecting a stream of continuous ultrasonic data in a data collector having self-organized storage 4028.
  • Embodiments include using self-organizing network coding to transport a stream of ultrasonic data collected from an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include conveying an indicator of a parameter of a continuously collected ultrasonic data stream via a sensory interface of a wearable device.
  • Embodiments include conveying an indicator of a parameter of a continuously collected ultrasonic data stream via a heat map visual interface of a wearable device.
  • Embodiments include conveying an indicator of a parameter of a continuously collected ultrasonic data stream via an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include taking input from a plurality of analog sensors disposed in an industrial environment, multiplexing the sensors into a multiplexed data stream, feeding the data stream into a cloud- deployed machine learning facility, and training a model of the machine learning facility to recognize a defined pattern associated with the industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include using a cloud-based pattern recognizer on input states from a state machine that characterizes states of an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include deploying policies by a policy engine that govern what data can be used by what users and for what purpose in cloud-based, machine learning.
  • Embodiments include feeding inputs from multiple devices that have fused, on-device storage of multiple sensor streams into a cloud-based pattern recognizer.
  • Embodiments include making an output from a cloud-based machine pattern recognizer that analyzes fused data from remote, analog industrial sensors available as a data service in a data marketplace.
  • Embodiments include using a cloud-based platform to identify patterns in data across a plurality of data pools that contain data published from industrial sensors.
  • Embodiments include training a model to identify preferred sensor sets to diagnose a condition of an industrial environment, where a training set is created by a human user and the model is improved based on feedback from data collected about conditions in an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a swarm of data collectors that is governed by a policy that is automatically propagated through the swarm. Embodiments include using a distributed ledger to store sensor fusion information across multiple devices. Embodiments include feeding input from a set of self-organizing data collectors into a cloud-based pattern recognizer that uses data from multiple sensors for an industrial environment. Embodiments include feeding input from a set of network- sensitive data collectors into a cloud-based pattern recognizer that uses data from multiple sensors from the industrial environment. Embodiments include feeding input from a set of remotely organized data collectors into a cloud-based pattern recognizer that determines user data from multiple sensors from the industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include feeding input from a set of data collectors having self-organized storage into a cloud-based pattern recognizer that uses data from multiple sensors from the industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing network coding for data transport of data fused from multiple sensors in the environment.
  • Embodiments include conveying information formed by fusing inputs from multiple sensors in an industrial data collection system in a multi-sensory interface.
  • Embodiments include conveying information formed by fusing inputs from multiple sensors in an industrial data collection system in a heat map interface.
  • Embodiments include conveying information formed by fusing inputs from multiple sensors in an industrial data collection system in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include providing cloud-based pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • Embodiments include using a policy engine to determine what state information can be used for cloud-based machine analysis.
  • Embodiments include feeding inputs from multiple devices that have fused and on-device storage of multiple sensor streams into a cloud-based pattern recognizer to determine an anticipated state of an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include making anticipated state information from a cloud-based machine pattern recognizer that analyzes fused data from remote, analog industrial sensors available as a data service in a data marketplace.
  • Embodiments include using a cloud-based pattern recognizer to determine an anticipated state of an industrial environment based on data collected from data pools that contain streams of information from machines in the environment.
  • Embodiments include training a model to identify preferred state information to diagnose a condition of an industrial environment, where a training set is created by a human user and the model is improved based on feedback from data collected about conditions in an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a swarm of data collectors that feeds a state machine that maintains current state information for an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include using a distributed ledger to store historical state information for fused sensor states a self-organizing data collector that feeds a state machine that maintains current state information for an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a network-sensitive data collector that feeds a state machine that maintains current state information for an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized data collector that feeds a state machine that maintains current state information for an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a data collector with self-organized storage that feeds a state machine that maintains current state information for an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing network coding for data transport and maintains anticipated state information for the environment.
  • Embodiments include conveying anticipated state information determined by machine learning in an industrial data collection system in a multi-sensory interface.
  • Embodiments include conveying anticipated state information determined by machine learning in an industrial data collection system in a heat map interface.
  • Embodiments include conveying anticipated state information determined by machine learning in an industrial data collection system in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy regarding data usage to an on-device storage system that stores fused data from multiple industrial sensors.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy relating to what data can be provided to whom in a self-organizing marketplace for IoT sensor data.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy across a set of self-organizing pools of data that contain data streamed from industrial sensing devices to govern use of data from the pools.
  • Embodiments include training a model to determine what policies should be deployed in an industrial data collection system.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy that governs how a self-organizing swarm should be organized for a particular industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include storing a policy on a device that governs use of storage capabilities of the device for a distributed ledger.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy that governs how a self-organizing data collector should be organized for a particular industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy that governs how a network-sensitive data collector should use network bandwidth for a particular industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy that governs how a remotely organized data collector should collect, and make available, data relating to a specified industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include deploying a policy that governs how a data collector should self-organize storage for a particular industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a policy engine for deploying policy within the system and self -organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a policy engine for deploying a policy within the system, where a policy applies to how data will be presented in a multi-sensory interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a policy engine for deploying a policy within the system, where a policy applies to how data will be presented in a heat map visual interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a policy engine for deploying a policy within the system, where a policy applies to how data will be presented in an interface that operates with self -organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • a policy engine for deploying a policy within the system, where a policy applies to how data will be presented in an interface that operates with self -organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • methods and systems are disclosed herein for on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices, including on-device sensor fusion and data storage for an industrial IoT device, where data from multiple sensors is multiplexed at the device for storage of a fused data stream.
  • Embodiments include a self-organizing marketplace that presents fused sensor data that is extracted from on-device storage of IoT devices.
  • Embodiments include streaming fused sensor information from multiple industrial sensors and from an on-device data storage facility to a data pool. Embodiments include training a model to determine what data should be stored on a device in a data collection environment. Embodiments include a self-organizing swarm of industrial data collectors that organize among themselves to optimize data collection, where at least some of the data collectors have on-device storage of fused data from multiple sensors. Embodiments include storing distributed ledger information with fused sensor information on an industrial IoT device. Embodiments include on- device sensor fusion and data storage for a self-organizing industrial data collector. Embodiments include on-device sensor fusion and data storage for a network-sensitive industrial data collector.
  • Embodiments include on-device sensor fusion and data storage for a remotely organized industrial data collector.
  • Embodiments include on-device sensor fusion and self- organizing data storage for an industrial data collector.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with on-device sensor fusion and self-organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection with on-device sensor fusion of industrial sensor data, where data structures are stored to support alternative, multi-sensory modes of presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection with on-device sensor fusion of industrial sensor data, where data structures are stored to support visual heat map modes of presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection with on-device sensor fusion of industrial sensor data, where data structures are stored to support an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data including a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data, where available data elements are organized in the marketplace for consumption by consumers based on training a self-organizing facility with a training set and feedback from measures of marketplace success.
  • Embodiments include organizing a set of data pools in a self -organizing data marketplace based on utilization metrics for the data pools.
  • Embodiments include training a model to determine pricing for data in a data marketplace.
  • Embodiments include feeding a data marketplace with data streams from a self-organizing swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • Embodiments include using a distributed ledger to store transactional data for a self-organizing marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • Embodiments include feeding a data marketplace with data streams from self-organizing industrial data collectors.
  • Embodiments include feeding a data marketplace with data streams from a set of network-sensitive industrial data collectors.
  • Embodiments include feeding a data marketplace with data streams from a set of remotely organized industrial data collectors.
  • Embodiments include feeding a data marketplace with data streams from a set of industrial data collectors that have self-organizing storage.
  • Embodiments include using self-organizing network coding for data transport to a marketplace for sensor data collected in industrial environments.
  • Embodiments include providing a library of data structures suitable for presenting data in alternative, multi-sensory interface modes in a data marketplace.
  • Embodiments include providing a library in a data marketplace of data structures suitable for presenting data in heat map visualization.
  • Embodiments include providing a library in a data marketplace of data structures suitable for presenting data in interfaces that operate with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include training a model to present the most valuable data in a data marketplace, where training is based on industry-specific measures of success.
  • Embodiments include populating a set of self-organizing data pools with data from a self-organizing swarm of data collectors.
  • Embodiments include using a distributed ledger to store transactional information for data that is deployed in data pools, where the distributed ledger is distributed across the data pools.
  • Embodiments include self-organizing of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics that are tracked for a plurality of data pools, where the pools contain data from self-organizing data collectors.
  • Embodiments include populating a set of self- organizing data pools with data from a set of network-sensitive data collectors.
  • Embodiments include populating a set of self- organizing data pools with data from a set of remotely organized data collectors.
  • Embodiments include populating a set of self-organizing data pools with data from a set of data collectors having self-organizing storage.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing pools for data storage and self-organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing pools for data storage that include a source data structure for supporting data presentation in a multi-sensory interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self -organizing pools for data storage that include a source data structure for supporting data presentation in a heat map interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing pools for data storage that include source a data structure for supporting data presentation in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include a self -organizing data marketplace receives the plurality of data pools and is organized based on training a marketplace self-organization with a traning set and based on feedback from measures of marketplace success with respect to the plurality of data pools.
  • Embodiments include training a swarm of data collectors based on industry-specific feedback.
  • Embodiments include training an AI model to identify and use available storage locations in an industrial environment for storing distributed ledger information.
  • Embodiments include training a swarm of self-organizing data collectors based on industry-specific feedback.
  • Embodiments include training a network- sensitive data collector based on network and industrial conditions in an industrial environment.
  • Embodiments include training a remote organizer for a remotely organized data collector based on industry-specific feedback measures. Embodiments include training a self-organizing data collector to configure storage based on industry-specific feedback. Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with cloud-based training of a network coding model for organizing network coding for data transport. Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with cloud-based training of a facility that manages presentation of data in a multi-sensory interface. Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with cloud-based training of a facility that manages presentation of data in a heat map interface. Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with cloud-based training of a facility that manages presentation of data in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include deploying distributed ledger data structures across a swarm of data.
  • Embodiments include a self-organizing swarm of self-organizing data collectors for data collection in industrial environments.
  • Embodiments include a self -organizing swarm of network-sensitive data collectors for data collection in industrial environments.
  • Embodiments include a self-organizing swarm of network-sensitive data collectors for data collection in industrial environments, where the swarm is also configured for remote organization.
  • Embodiments include a self-organizing swarm of data collectors having self-organizing storage for data collection in industrial environments.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a self-organizing swarm of data collectors and self-organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a self-organizing swarm of data collectors that relay information for use in a multi-sensory interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a self -organizing swarm of data collectors that relay information for use in a heat map interface.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a self-organizing swarm of data collectors that relay information for use in an interface that operates with self -organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include a self-organizing data collector that is configured to distribute collected information to a distributed ledger.
  • Embodiments include a network-sensitive data collector that is configured to distribute collected information to a distributed ledger based on network conditions.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized data collector that is configured to distribute collected information to a distributed ledger based on intelligent, remote management of the distribution.
  • Embodiments include a data collector with self-organizing local storage that is configured to distribute collected information to a distributed ledger.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment using a distributed ledger for data storage and self-organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment using a distributed ledger for data storage of a data structure supporting a haptic interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment using a distributed ledger for data storage of a data structure supporting a heat map interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment using a distributed ledger for data storage of a data structure supporting an interface that operates with self -organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • a network-sensitive collector including a network condition-sensitive, self-organizing, multi-sensor data collector that can optimize based on bandwidth, quality of service, pricing and/or other network conditions.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized, network condition-sensitive universal data collector that can power up and down sensor interfaces based on need and/or conditions identified in an industrial data collection environment, including network conditions.
  • Embodiments include a network-condition sensitive data collector with self-organizing storage for data collected in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Embodiments include a network- condition sensitive data collector with self-organizing network coding for data transport in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a network-sensitive data collector that relays a data structure supporting a haptic wearable interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a network-sensitive data collector that relays a data structure supporting a heat map interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with a network-sensitive data collector that relays a data structure supporting an interface that operates with self- organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized universal data collector with self-organizing storage for data collected in an industrial data collection environment.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with remote control of data collection and self-organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized data collector for storing sensor data and delivering instructions for use of the data in a haptic or multi-sensory wearable interface.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized data collector for storing sensor data and delivering instructions for use of the data in a heat map visual interface.
  • Embodiments include a remotely organized data collector for storing sensor data and delivering instructions for use of the data in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self -organizing data storage and self -organizing network coding for data transport.
  • Embodiments include a data collector with self -organizing storage for storing sensor data and instructions for translating the data for use in a haptic wearable interface.
  • Embodiments include a data collector with self-organizing storage for storing sensor data and instructions for translating the data for use in a heat map presentation interface.
  • Embodiments include a data collector with self-organizing storage for storing sensor data and instructions for translating the data for use in an interface that operates with self-organized tuning of the interface layer.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing network coding for data transport and a data structure supporting a haptic wearable interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing network coding for data transport and a data structure supporting a heat map interface for data presentation.
  • Embodiments include a system for data collection in an industrial environment with self-organizing network coding for data transport and self- organized tuning of an interface layer for data presentation.
  • a haptic or multi-sensory user interface including a wearable haptic or multi-sensory user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • Embodiments include a wearable haptic user interface for conveying industrial state information from a data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • Embodiments include a wearable haptic user interface for conveying industrial state information from a data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • the wearable also has a visual presentation layer for presenting a heat map that indicates a parameter of the data.
  • Embodiments include condition-sensitive, self-organized tuning of AR/VR interfaces and multi-sensory interfaces based on feedback metrics and/or training in industrial environments.
  • Embodiments include condition- sensitive, self-organized tuning of a heat map AR/VR interface based on feedback metrics and/or training in industrial environments.
  • methods and systems are disclosed herein for condition-sensitive, self-organized tuning of AR/VR interfaces based on feedback metrics and/or training in industrial environments.
  • the data collection system mentioned in the following disclosure may be a local data collection system 102, a host processing system 112 (e.g., using a cloud platform), or a combination of a local system and a host system.
  • a data collection system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having IP front-end-end signal conditioning on a multiplexer for improved signal-to-noise ratio.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having multiplexer continuous monitoring alarming features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having high-amperage input capability using solid state relays and design topology.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having power-down capability of at least one of an analog sensor channel and of a component board.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having unique electrostatic protection for trigger and vibration inputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having precise voltage reference for A/D zero reference.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a phase-lock loop band-pass tracking filter for obtaining slow-speed RPMs and phase information.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having digital derivation of phase relative to input and trigger channels using on-board timers.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a peak-detector for auto-scaling that is routed into a separate analog-to-digital converter for peak detection.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having the routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having the use of a CPLD as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma analog- to-digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate, as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having smart route changes based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a hierarchical multiplexer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having identification of sensor overload. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on the fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a network- sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data having variable groups of analog sensor inputs and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having high-amperage input capability using solid state relays and design topology.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having power-down capability of at least one of an analog sensor channel and of a component board.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having unique electrostatic protection for trigger and vibration inputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having precise voltage reference for A/D zero reference.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a phase-lock loop band-pass tracking filter for obtaining slow-speed RPMs and phase information.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having digital derivation of phase relative to input and trigger channels using on-board timers.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a peak-detector for auto-scaling that is routed into a separate analog-to-digital converter for peak detection.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having the use of a CPLD as a clock- divider for a delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a graphical approach for back- calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having cloud- based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having cloud- based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a self- organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of distributed CPLD chips with dedicated bus for logic control of multiple MUX and data acquisition sections and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having unique electrostatic protection for trigger and vibration inputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having precise voltage reference for A/D zero reference.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a phase-lock loop band-pass tracking filter for obtaining slow-speed RPMs and phase information.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having digital derivation of phase relative to input and trigger channels using on-board timers.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a peak-detector for auto-scaling that is routed into a separate analog-to-digital converter for peak detection.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having the use of a CPLD as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma analog-to- digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having data acquisition parking features. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having SD card storage. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having power- down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having identification of sensor overload. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self -organizing collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power- down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having power-down capability for at least one of an analog sensor and a component board and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having the use of a CPLD as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a hierarchical multiplexer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having identification of sensor overload. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having routing of a trigger channel that is either raw or buffered into other analog channels and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having the use of a CPLD as a clock-divider for a delta-sigma analog-to- digital converter to achieve lower sampling rates without the need for digital resampling.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having cloud- based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta- sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of higher input oversampling for delta-sigma A/D for lower sampling rate outputs to minimize AA filter requirements and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having storage of calibration data with maintenance history on-board card set.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high- sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having long blocks of data at a high-sampling rate as opposed to multiple sets of data taken at different sampling rates and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a graphical approach for back- calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a network- sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self- organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a self -organizing network coding for multi- sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a rapid route creation capability using hierarchical templates and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having SD card storage. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a hierarchical multiplexer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having identification of sensor overload. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having intelligent management of data collection bands and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having intelligent management of data collection bands and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud- based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self- organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a neural net expert system using intelligent management of data collection bands and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self- organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a self-organizing network coding for multi- sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having use of a database hierarchy in sensor data analysis and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having an expert system GUI graphical approach to defining intelligent data collection bands and diagnoses for the expert system and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back- calculation definition and having proposed bearing analysis methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having torsional vibration detection/analysis utilizing transitory signal analysis.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back- calculation definition and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self- organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back- calculation definition and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a graphical approach for back-calculation definition and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a network- sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having improved integration using both analog and digital methods and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self-sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self- organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having adaptive scheduling techniques for continuous monitoring of analog data in a local environment and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having data acquisition parking features.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self- sufficient data acquisition box.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system having data acquisition parking features and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having data acquisition parking features and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having data acquisition parking features and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having data acquisition parking features and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having data acquisition parking features and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having SD card storage.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system having SD card storage and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having cloud- based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having SD card storage and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a self- organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having training AI models based on industry- specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system having SD card storage and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having SD card storage and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having SD card storage and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having cloud- based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having extended onboard statistical capabilities for continuous monitoring and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having RF identification and an inclinometer. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a network- sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having the use of ambient, local and vibration noise for prediction and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having cloud- based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a self-organizing storage for a multi- sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart route changes route based on incoming data or alarms to enable simultaneous dynamic data for analysis or correlation and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart ODS and transfer functions.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having cloud- based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart ODS and transfer functions and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart ODS and transfer functions and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having smart ODS and transfer functions and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having smart ODS and transfer functions and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a hierarchical multiplexer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having identification of sensor overload.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system having a hierarchical multiplexer and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system having a hierarchical multiplexer and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having a hierarchical multiplexer and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having a hierarchical multiplexer and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having RF identification and an inclinometer.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system having RF identification and an inclinometer and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system having RF identification and an inclinometer and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system having RF identification and an inclinometer and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having RF identification and an inclinometer and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a data collection and processing system having continuous ultrasonic monitoring.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having cloud- based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a data collection and processing system having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a self -organizing collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a data collection and processing system having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a data collection and processing system is provided having continuous ultrasonic monitoring and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a self-organizing collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern recognition based on fusion of remote, analog industrial sensors and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector. [00319] In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a platform having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a self-organizing storage for a multi- sensor data collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform having cloud- based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having cloud- based, machine pattern analysis of state information from multiple analog industrial sensors to provide anticipated state information for an industrial system and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a platform having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a self-organizing collector.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having cloud-based policy automation engine for IoT, with creation, deployment, and management of IoT devices and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices.
  • a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a platform having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a self -organizing collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a platform is provided having on-device sensor fusion and data storage for industrial IoT devices and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organizing data marketplace engine for industrial IoT data and having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics.
  • a platform is provided having a self- organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a self- organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a platform having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a self -organizing collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a self -organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a self -organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a self- organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing data marketplace for industrial IoT data and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • platform is provided having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics. In embodiments, platform is provided having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback. In embodiments, platform is provided having self- organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors. In embodiments, platform is provided having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, platform is provided having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a self-organizing collector.
  • platform having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, platform is provided having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, platform is provided having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, platform is provided having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a self- organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • platform having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • platform is provided having self-organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • platform is provided having self -organization of data pools based on utilization and/or yield metrics and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback. In embodiments, a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a self- organized swarm of industrial data collectors. In embodiments, a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having an IoT distributed ledger. In embodiments, a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a self-organizing collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry-specific feedback and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having training AI models based on industry- specific feedback and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having an IoT distributed ledger.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a self -organizing collector.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a network-sensitive collector.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a self-organizing network coding for multi- sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organized swarm of industrial data collectors and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a network-sensitive collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having a remotely organized collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having a self-organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR. In embodiments, a platform is provided having a network-sensitive collector and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a remotely organized collector.
  • a platform is provided having a remotely organized collector and having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform is provided having a remotely organized collector and having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having a remotely organized collector and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a remotely organized collector and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a remotely organized collector and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector and having a self- organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a self-organizing storage for a multi-sensor data collector and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network and having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical, and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a self -organizing network coding for multi-sensor data network and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs.
  • a platform is provided having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs and having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having a wearable haptic user interface for an industrial sensor data collector, with vibration, heat, electrical and/or sound outputs and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • a platform is provided having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR.
  • a platform is provided having heat maps displaying collected data for AR/VR and having automatically tuned AR/VR visualization of data collected by a data collector.
  • the methods and systems described herein may be deployed in part or in whole through a machine that executes computer software, program codes, and/or instructions on a processor.
  • the present disclosure may be implemented as a method on the machine, as a system or apparatus as part of or in relation to the machine, or as a computer program product embodied in a computer readable medium executing on one or more of the machines.
  • the processor may be part of a server, cloud server, client, network infrastructure, mobile computing platform, stationary computing platform, or other computing platform.
  • a processor may be any kind of computational or processing device capable of executing program instructions, codes, binary instructions, and the like.
  • the processor may be or may include a signal processor, digital processor, embedded processor, microprocessor, or any variant such as a co-processor (math co-processor, graphic co-processor, communication co-processor, and the like) and the like that may directly or indirectly facilitate execution of program code or program instructions stored thereon.
  • the processor may enable execution of multiple programs, threads, and codes. The threads may be executed simultaneously to enhance the performance of the processor and to facilitate simultaneous operations of the application.
  • methods, program codes, program instructions and the like described herein may be implemented in one or more thread.
  • the thread may spawn other threads that may have assigned priorities associated with them; the processor may execute these threads based on priority or any other order based on instructions provided in the program code.
  • the processor may include non-transitory memory that stores methods, codes, instructions, and programs as described herein and elsewhere.
  • the processor may access a non-transitory storage medium through an interface that may store methods, codes, and instructions as described herein and elsewhere.
  • the storage medium associated with the processor for storing methods, programs, codes, program instructions or other type of instructions capable of being executed by the computing or processing device may include but may not be limited to one or more of a CD-ROM, DVD, memory, hard disk, flash drive, RAM, ROM, cache, and the like.
  • a processor may include one or more cores that may enhance speed and performance of a multiprocessor.
  • the process may be a dual core processor, quad core processors, other chip-level multiprocessor and the like that combine two or more independent cores (called a die).
  • the methods and systems described herein may be deployed in part or in whole through a machine that executes computer software on a server, client, firewall, gateway, hub, router, or other such computer and/or networking hardware.
  • the software program may be associated with a server that may include a file server, print server, domain server, internet server, intranet server, cloud server, and other variants such as secondary server, host server, distributed server, and the like.
  • the server may include one or more of memories, processors, computer readable transitory and/or non-transitory media, storage media, ports (physical and virtual), communication devices, and interfaces capable of accessing other servers, clients, machines, and devices through a wired or a wireless medium, and the like.
  • the methods, programs, or codes as described herein and elsewhere may be executed by the server.
  • other devices required for execution of methods as described in this application may be considered as a part of the infrastructure associated with the server.
  • the server may provide an interface to other devices including, without limitation, clients, other servers, printers, database servers, print servers, file servers, communication servers, distributed servers, social networks, and the like. Additionally, this coupling and/or connection may facilitate remote execution of program across the network. The networking of some or all of these devices may facilitate parallel processing of a program or method at one or more location without deviating from the scope of the disclosure.
  • any of the devices attached to the server through an interface may include at least one storage medium capable of storing methods, programs, code and/or instructions.
  • a central repository may provide program instructions to be executed on different devices.
  • the remote repository may act as a storage medium for program code, instructions, and programs.
  • the software program may be associated with a client that may include a file client, print client, domain client, internet client, intranet client and other variants such as secondary client, host client, distributed client, and the like.
  • the client may include one or more of memories, processors, computer readable transitory and/or non-transitory media, storage media, ports (physical and virtual), communication devices, and interfaces capable of accessing other clients, servers, machines, and devices through a wired or a wireless medium, and the like.
  • the methods, programs, or codes as described herein and elsewhere may be executed by the client.
  • other devices required for execution of methods as described in this application may be considered as a part of the infrastructure associated with the client.
  • the client may provide an interface to other devices including, without limitation, servers, other clients, printers, database servers, print servers, file servers, communication servers, distributed servers, and the like. Additionally, this coupling and/or connection may facilitate remote execution of program across the network. The networking of some or all of these devices may facilitate parallel processing of a program or method at one or more location without deviating from the scope of the disclosure.
  • any of the devices attached to the client through an interface may include at least one storage medium capable of storing methods, programs, applications, code and/or instructions.
  • a central repository may provide program instructions to be executed on different devices.
  • the remote repository may act as a storage medium for program code, instructions, and programs.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems while preserving access to existing format/frequency range/resolution compatible data. While the industrial machine sensor data streaming facilities described herein may collect a greater volume of data (e.g., longer duration of data collection) from sensors at a wider range of frequencies and with greater resolution than existing data collection systems, methods and systems may be employed to provide access to data from the stream of data that represents one or more ranges of frequency and/or one or more lines of resolution that are purposely compatible with existing systems.
  • a portion of the streamed data may be identified, extracted, stored, and/or forwarded to existing data processing systems to facilitate operation of existing data processing systems that substantively matches operation of existing data processing systems using existing collection-based data.
  • a newly deployed system for sensing aspects of industrial machines such as aspects of moving parts of industrial machines, may facilitate continued use of existing sensed data processing facilities, algorithms, models, pattern recognizers, user interfaces and the like.
  • higher resolution streamed data may be configured to represent a specific frequency, frequency range, format, and/or resolution.
  • This configured streamed data can be stored in a data structure that is compatible with existing sensed data structures so that existing processing systems and facilities can access and process the data substantially as if it were the existing data.
  • One approach to adapting streamed data for compatibility with existing sensed data may include aligning the streamed data with existing data so that portions of the streamed data that align with the existing data can be extracted, stored, and made available for processing with existing data processing methods.
  • data processing methods may be configured to process portions of the streamed data that correspond, such as through alignment, to the existing data with methods that implement functions substantially similar to the methods used to process existing data, such as methods that process data that contain a particular frequency range or a particular resolution and the like.
  • Methods used to process existing data may be associated with certain characteristics of sensed data, such as certain frequency ranges, sources of data, and the like.
  • methods for processing bearing sensing information for a moving part of an industrial machine may be capable of processing data from bearing sensors that fall into a particular frequency range. This method can thusly be at least partially identifiable by these characteristics of the data being processed. Therefore, given a set of conditions, such as moving device being sensed, industrial machine type, frequency of data being sensed, and the like, a data processing system may select an appropriate method. Also, given such as set of conditions, an industrial machine data sensing and processing facility may configure elements, such as data filters, routers, processors, and the like to handle data meeting the conditions.
  • a range of existing data sensing and processing systems with an industrial sensing processing and storage systems 4500 include a streaming data collector 4510 that may be configured to accept data in a range of formats as described herein.
  • the range of formats can include a data format A 4520, a data format B 4522, a data format C 4524, and a data format D 4528 that may be sourced from a range of sensors.
  • the range of sensors can include an instrument A 4540, an instrument B 4542, an instrument C 4544, and an instrument D 4548.
  • the streaming data collector 4510 may be configured with processing capabilities that enable access to the individual formats while leveraging the streaming, routing, self -organizing storage, and other capabilities described herein.
  • FIG 19 depicts methods and systems 4600 for industrial machine sensor data streaming collection, processing, and storage that facilitate use a streaming data collector 4610 to collect and obtain data from legacy instruments 4620 and streaming instruments 4622.
  • Legacy instruments 4620 and their data methodologies may capture and provide data that is limited in scope due to the legacy systems and acquisition procedures, such as existing data described above herein, to a particular range of frequencies and the like.
  • the streaming data collector 4610 may be configured to capture streaming instrument data 4632 as well as legacy instrument data 4630.
  • the streaming data collector 4610 may also be configured to capture current streaming instruments 4622 and legacy instruments 4620 and sensors using current and legacy data methodologies. These embodiments may be useful in transition applications from the legacy instruments and processing to the streaming instruments and processing.
  • the streaming data collector 4610 may be configured to process the legacy instrument data 4630 so that it can be stored compatibly with the streamed instrument data 4642.
  • the streaming data collector 4640 may process or parse the streamed instrument data 4642 based on the legacy instrument data 4630 to produce at least one extraction of the streamed data 4642 that is compatible with the legacy instrument data 4630 that can be processed to translated legacy data 4640.
  • extracted data 4650 that can include extracted portions of translated legacy data 4652 and streamed data 4654 may be stored in a format that facilitates access and processing by legacy instrument data processing and further processing that can emulate legacy instrument data processing methods, and the like.
  • the portions of the translated legacy data 4652 may also be stored in a format that facilitates processing with different methods that can take advantage of the greater frequencies, resolution, and volume of data possible with a streaming instrument.
  • FIG. 20 depicts alternate embodiments descriptive of methods and systems 4700 for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage that facilitate integration of legacy instruments and processing.
  • a streaming data collector 4710 may be connected with an industrial machine 4712 and may include a plurality of sensors, such as streaming sensors 4720 and 4722 that may be configured to sense aspects of the industrial machine 4712 associated with at least one moving part of the industrial machine 4712.
  • the streaming sensors 4720 and 4722 (or more) may communicate with one or more streaming devices 4740 that may facilitate streaming data from one or more of the sensors to the streaming data collector 4710.
  • the industrial machine 4712 may also interface with or include one or more legacy instruments 4730 that may capture data associated with one or more moving parts of the industrial machine 4712 and store that data into a legacy data storage facility 4732.
  • a frequency and/or resolution detection facility 4742 may be configured to facilitate detecting information about legacy instrument sourced data, such as a frequency range of the data or a resolution of the data, and the like.
  • the frequency and/or resolution detection facility 4742 may operate on data directly from the legacy instruments 4730 or from data stored in a legacy data storage facility 4732.
  • the frequency and/or resolution detection facility 4742 may communicate information that it has detected about the legacy instruments 4730, its sourced data, and its stored data 4732, or the like to the streaming data collector 4710.
  • the detection facility 4742 may access information, such as information about frequency ranges, resolution and the like that characterizes the sourced data from the legacy instrument 4730 and/or may be accessed from a portion of the legacy storage facility 4732.
  • the streaming data collector 4710 may be configured with one or more automatic processors, algorithms, and/or other data methodologies to match up information captured by the one or more legacy instruments 4730 with a portion of data being provided by the one or more streaming devices 4740 from the one or more industrial machines 4712.
  • Data from streaming devices 4740 may include a wider range of frequencies and resolutions than the sourced data of legacy instruments 4730 and, therefore, filtering and other such functions can be implemented to extract data from the streaming devices 4740 that corresponds to the sourced data of the legacy instruments 4730 in aspects such as frequency range, resolution, and the like.
  • the configured streaming data collector 4710 may produce a plurality of streams of data, including a stream of data that may correspond to the stream of data from the streaming device 4740 and a separate stream of data that is compatible, in some aspects, with the legacy instrument sourced data and the infrastructure to ingest and automatically process it.
  • the streaming data collector 4710 may output data in modes other than as a stream, such as batches, aggregations, summaries, and the like.
  • Configured streaming data collector 4710 may communicate with a stream storage facility 4764 for storing at least one of the data output from the streaming data collector 4710 and data extracted therefrom that may be compatible, in some aspects, with the sourced data of the legacy instruments 4730.
  • a legacy compatible output of the configured streaming data collector 4710 may also be provided to a format adaptor facility 4748, 4760 that may configure, adapt, reformat and other adjustments to the legacy compatible data so that it can be stored in a legacy compatible storage facility 4762 so that legacy processing facilities 4744 may execute data processing methods on data in the legacy compatible storage facility 4762 and the like that are configured to process the sourced data of the legacy instruments 4730.
  • legacy processing facility 4744 may also automatically process this data after optionally being processed by format adaptor 4760.
  • format adaptor 4760 By arranging the data collection, streaming, processing, formatting, and storage elements to provide data in a format that is fully compatible with legacy instrument sourced data, transition from a legacy system can be simplified and the sourced data from legacy instruments can be easily compared to newly acquired data (with more content) without losing the legacy value of the sourced data from the legacy instruments 4730.
  • FIG. 21 depicts alternate embodiments of the methods and systems 4800 described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage that may be compatible with legacy instrument data collection and processing.
  • processing industrial machine sensed data may be accomplished in a variety of ways including aligning legacy and streaming sources of data, such as by aligning stored legacy and streaming data; aligning stored legacy data with a stream of sensed data; and aligning legacy and streamed data as it is being collected.
  • an industrial machine 4810 may include, communicate with, or be integrated with one or more stream data sensors 4820 that may sense aspects of the industrial machine 4810 such as aspects of one or more moving parts of the machine.
  • the industrial machine 4810 may also communicate with, include, or be integrated with one or more legacy data sensors 4830 that may sense similar aspects of the industrial machine 4810.
  • the one or more legacy data sensors 4830 may provide sensed data to one or more legacy data collectors 4630.
  • the streamdata sensors 4820 may produce an output that encompasses all aspects of (i.e., a richer signal) and is compatible with sensed data from the legacy data sensors 4830.
  • the stream data sensors 4820 may provide compatible data to the legacy data collector 4630.
  • the streaming data sensors 4820 may replace (or serve as suitable duplicate for) one or more legacy data sensors, such as during an upgrade of the sensing and processing system of an industrial machine.
  • Frequency range, resolution and the like may be mimicked by the stream data so as to ensure that all forms of legacy data are captured or can be derived from the stream data.
  • format conversion, if needed, can also be performed by the stream data sensors 4820.
  • the stream data sensors 4820 may also produce an alternate data stream that is suitable for collection by the stream data collector 4850.
  • such an alternate data stream may be a superset of the legacy data sensor data in at least one or more of frequency range, resolution, duration of sensing the data, and the like.
  • an industrial machine sensed data processing facility 4860 may execute a wide range of sensed data processing methods, some of which may be compatible with the data from legacy data sensors 4830 and may produce outputs that may meet legacy sensed data processing requirements.
  • legacy and stream data may need to be aligned so that a compatible portion of stream data may be extracted for processing with legacy compatible methods and the like.
  • Figure 21 depicts three different techniques for aligning stream data to legacy data.
  • a first alignment methodology 4862 includes aligning legacy data output by the legacy data collector 4630 with stream data output by the stream data collector 4850.
  • aspects of the data may be detected, such as resolution, frequency, duration, and the like, and may be used as control for a processing method that identifies portions of a stream of data from the stream data collector 4850 that are purposely compatible with the legacy data.
  • the processing facility 4860 may apply one or more legacy compatible methods on the identified portions of the stream data to extract data that can be easily compared to or referenced against the legacy data.
  • a second alignment methodology 4864 may involve aligning streaming data with data from a legacy storage facility 4732.
  • a third alignment methodology 4868 may involve aligning stored stream data from a stream storage facility 4884 with legacy data from the legacy data storage facility 4732.
  • alignment data may be determined by processing the legacy data to detect aspects such as resolution, duration, frequency range and the like.
  • alignment may be performed by an alignment facility, such as facilities using methodologies 4862, 4864, 4868 that may receive or may be configured with legacy data descriptive information such as legacy frequency range, duration, resolution, and the like.
  • an industrial machine sensing data processing facility 4862 may have access to legacy compatible methods and algorithms that may be stored in a legacy data methodology storage facility 4880. These methodologies, algorithms, or other data in the legacy algorithm storage facility 4762 may also be a source of alignment information that could be communicated by the industrial machine sensed data processing facility 4862 to the various alignment facilities having methodologies 4862, 4864, 4868.
  • the data processing facility 4860 may facilitate processing legacy data, streamed data that is compatible with legacy data, or portions of streamed data that represent the legacy data to produce legacy compatible analytics 4630.
  • the data processing facility 4860 may execute a wide range of other sensed data processing methods, such as wavelet derivations and the like to produce streamed processed analytics 4631.
  • the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 ( Figures 3, 6, 18, 19, 20) or data processing facility 4860 may include portable algorithms, methodologies and inputs that may be defined and extracted from data streams.
  • a user or enterprise may already have existing and effective methods related to analyzing specific pieces of machinery and assets. These existing methods could be imported into the configured streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 or the data processing facility 4860 as portable algorithms or methodologies.
  • Data processing such as described herein for the configured streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 may also match an algorithm or methodology to a situation, then extract data from a stream to match to the data methodology from the legacy acquisition or legacy acquisition techniques.
  • the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 may be compatible with many types of systems and may be compatible with systems having varying degrees of criticality.
  • An industrial machine may be a gas compressor.
  • a gas compressor may operate an oil pump on a very large turbo machine, such as a very large turbo machine that includes 10,000 HP motors.
  • the oil pump may be a highly critical system as its failure could cause an entire plant to shut down.
  • the gas compressor in this example may run four stages at a very high frequency, such as 36,000 RPM and may include tilt pad bearings that ride on an oil film.
  • the oil pump in this example may have roller bearings, that if an anticipated failure is not being picked up by a user, the oil pump may stop running and the entire turbo machine would fail.
  • the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 may collect data related to vibrations, such as casing vibration and proximity probe vibration.
  • Other bearing industrial machine examples may include generators, power plants, boiler feed pumps, fans, forced draft fans, induced draft fans and the like.
  • the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 for a bearings system used in the industrial gas industry may support predictive analysis on the motors, such as that performed by model-based expert systems, for example, using voltage, current and vibration as analysis metrics.
  • Another exemplary industrial machine deployment may be a motor and the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 that may assist in the analysis of a motor by collecting voltage and current data on the motor, for example.
  • Yet another exemplary industrial machine deployment may include oil quality sensing.
  • An industrial machine may conduct oil analysis and the streaming data collector 102, 4510, 4610, 4710 may assist in searching for fragments of metal in oil, for example.
  • Model-based systems may integrate with proximity probes.
  • Proximity probes may be used to sense problems with machinery and shut machinery down due to sensed problems.
  • a model-based system integrated with proximity probes may measure a peak waveform and send a signal that shuts down machinery based on the peak waveform measurement.
  • Enterprises that operate industrial machines may operate in many diverse industries. These industries may include industries that operate manufacturing lines, provide computing infrastructure, support financial services, provide HVAC equipment and the like. These industries may be highly sensitive to lost operating time and the cost incurred due to lost operating time. HVAC equipment enterprises in particular may be concerned with data related to ultrasound, vibration, IR and the like and may get much more information about machine performance related to these metrics using the methods and systems of industrial machine sensed data streaming collection than from legacy systems.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for capturing a plurality of streams of sensed data from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine; at least one of the streams containing a plurality of frequencies of data.
  • the method may include identifying a subset of data in at least one of the plurality of streams that corresponds to data representing at least one predefined frequency.
  • the at least one predefined frequency is represented by a set of data collected from alternate sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the method may further include processing the identified data with a data processing facility that processes the identified data with data methodologies configured to be applied to the set of data collected from alternate sensors. Lastly the method may include storing the at least one of the streams of data, the identified subset of data, and a result of processing the identified data in an electronic data set.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for applying data captured from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the data captured with predefined lines of resolution covering a predefined frequency range to a frequency matching facility that identifies a subset of data streamed from other sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the streamed data comprising a plurality of lines of resolution and frequency ranges, the subset of data identified corresponding to the lines of resolution and predefined frequency range.
  • This method may include storing the subset of data in an electronic data record in a format that corresponds to a format of the data captured with predefined lines of resolution; and signaling to a data processing facility the presence of the stored subset of data.
  • This method may optionally include processing the subset of data with at least one of algorithms, methodologies, models, and pattern recognizers that corresponds to algorithms, methodologies, models, and pattern recognizers associated with processing the data captured with predefined lines of resolution covering a predefined frequency range.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for identifying a subset of streamed sensor data.
  • the sensor data is captured from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the subset of streamed sensor data is at predefined lines of resolution for a predefined frequency range.
  • the method includes establishing a first logical route for communicating electronically between a first computing facility performing the identifying and a second computing facility.
  • the identified subset of the streamed sensor data is communicated exclusively over the established first logical route when communicating the subset of streamed sensor data from the first facility to the second facility.
  • This method may further include establishing a second logical route for communicating electronically between the first computing facility and the second computing facility for at least one portion of the streamed sensor data that is not the identified subset.
  • This method may further include establishing a third logical route for communicating electronically between the first computing facility and the second computing facility for at least one portion of the streamed sensor data that includes the identified subset and at least one other portion of the data not represented by the identified subset.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a first data sensing and processing system that captures first data from a first set of sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the first data covering a set of lines of resolution and a frequency range.
  • This system may include a second data sensing and processing system that captures and streams a second set of data from a second set of sensors deployed to monitor aspects of the industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine, the second data covering a plurality of lines of resolution that includes the set of lines of resolution and a plurality of frequencies that includes the frequency range.
  • the system may enable (1) selecting a portion of the second data that corresponds to the set of lines of resolution and the frequency range of the first data; and (2) processing the selected portion of the second data with the first data sensing and processing system.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for automatically processing a portion of a stream of sensed data.
  • the sensed data received from a first set of sensors is deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine in response to an electronic data structure that facilitates extracting a subset of the stream of sensed data that corresponds to a set of sensed data received from a second set of sensors deployed to monitor the aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the set of sensed data is constrained to a frequency range.
  • the stream of sensed data includes a range of frequencies that exceeds the frequency range of the set of sensed data.
  • the processing comprising executing data methodologies on a portion of the stream of sensed data that is constrained to the frequency range of the set of sensed data.
  • the data methodologies are configured to process the set of sensed data.
  • Methods and systems described herein for industrial machine sensor data streaming, collection, processing, and storage may be configured to operate and integrate with existing data collection, processing and storage systems and may include a method for receiving first data from sensors deployed to monitor aspects of an industrial machine associated with at least one moving part of the machine. This method may further include: (1) detecting at least one of a frequency range and lines of resolution represented by the first data; and (2) receiving a stream of data from sensors deployed to monitor the aspects of the industrial machine associated with the at least one moving part of the machine.
  • the stream of data includes a plurality of frequency ranges and a plurality of lines of resolution that exceeds the frequency range and the lines of resolution represented by the first data; extracting a set of data from the stream of data that corresponds to at least one of the frequency range and the lines of resolution represented by the first data; and processing the extracted set of data with a data processing method that is configured to process data within the frequency range and within the lines of resolution of the first data.
  • the methods and systems disclosed herein may include, connect to, or be integrated with a data acquisition instrument and in the many embodiments, Figure 22 shows methods and systems 5000 that includes a data acquisition (DAQ) streaming instrument 5002 also known as an SDAQ.
  • DAQ data acquisition
  • output from sensors 5710, 5712, 5714 may be of various types including vibration, temperature, pressure, ultrasound and so on.
  • one of the sensors may be used.
  • many of the sensors may be used and their signals may be used individually or in predetermined combinations and/or at predetermined intervals, circumstances, setups, and the like.
  • the output signals from the sensors 5710, 5712, 5714 may be fed into instrument inputs 5020, 5022, 5024 of the DAQ instrument 5002 and may be configured with additional streaming capabilities 5028.
  • the output signals from the sensors 5010, 5012, 5014, or more as applicable may be conditioned as an analog signal before digitization with respect to at least scaling and filtering. The signals may then be digitized by an analog to digital converter 5030.
  • the signals received from all relevant channels may be simultaneously sampled at a predetermined rate sufficient to perform the maximum desired frequency analysis that may be adjusted and readjusted as needed or otherwise held constant to ensure compatibility or conformance with other relevant datasets.
  • the signals are sampled for a relatively long time and gap-free as one continuous stream so as to enable further post-processing at lower sampling rates with sufficient individual sampling.
  • data may be streamed from a collection of points and then the next set of data may be collected from additional points according to a prescribed sequence, route, path, or the like.
  • the sensors 5010, 5012, 5014 or more may be moved to the next location according to the prescribed sequence, route, pre-arranged configurations, or the like.
  • not all of the sensor 5710, 5712, 5714 may move and therefore some may remain fixed in place and used for detection of reference phase or the like.
  • a multiplex (mux) 5032 may be used to switch to the next collection of points, to a mixture of the two methods or collection patterns that may be combined, other predetermined routes, and the like.
  • the multiplexer 5032 may be stackable so as to be laddered and effectively accept more channels than the DAQ instrument 5002 provides.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may provide eight channels while the multiplexer 5032 may be stacked to supply 32 channels. Further variations are possible with one more multiplexers.
  • the multiplexer 5032 may be fed into the DAQ instrument 5002 through an instrument input 5034.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may include a controller 5038 that may take the form of an onboard controller, a PC, other connected devices, network based services, and combinations thereof.
  • the sequence and panel conditions used to govern the data collection process may be obtained from the multimedia probe (MMP) and probe control, sequence and analytical (PCSA) information store 5040.
  • the PCSA information store 5040 may be onboard the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • contents of the PCSA information store 5040 may be obtained through a cloud network facility, from other DAQ instruments, from other connected devices, from the machine being sensed, other relevant sources, and combinations thereof.
  • the PCSA information store 5040 may include such items as the hierarchical structural relationships of the machine, e.g., a machine contains predetermined pieces of equipment, each of which may contain one or more shafts and each of those shafts may have multiple associated bearings.
  • Each of those types of bearings may be monitored by specific types of transducers or probes, according to one or more specific prescribed sequences (paths, routes, and the like) and with one or more specific panel conditions that may be set on the one or more DAQ instruments 5002.
  • the panel conditions may include hardware specific switch settings or other collection parameters.
  • collection parameters include but are not limited to a sampling rate, AC/DC coupling, voltage range and gain, integration, high and low pass filtering, antialiasing filtering, ICPTM transducers and other integrated-circuit piezoelectric transducers, 4-20 mA loop sensors, and the like.
  • the PCSA information store 5040 may also include machinery specific features that may be important for proper analysis such as gear teeth for a gear, number blades in a pump impeller, number of motor rotor bars, bearing specific parameters necessary for calculating bearing frequencies, revolution per minutes information of all rotating elements and multiples of those RPM ranges, and the like. Information in the information store may also be used to extract stream data 5050 for permanent storage.
  • digitized waveforms may be uploaded using DAQ driver services 5054 of a driver onboard the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • data may then be fed into a raw data server 5058 which may store the stream data 5050 in a stream data repository 5060.
  • this data storage area is typically meant for storage until the data is copied off of the DAQ instrument 5002 and verified.
  • the DAQ API 5052 may also direct the local data control application 5062 to extract and process the recently obtained stream data 5050 and convert it to the same or lower sampling rates of sufficient length to effect one or more desired resolutions.
  • this data may be converted to spectra, averaged, and processed in a variety of ways and stored, at least temporarily, as extracted/processed (EP) data 5064.
  • EP extracted/processed
  • sampling frequency is related directly to an external frequency (typically the running speed of the machine or its local componentry) rather than the more-standard sampling rates employed by the internal crystals, clock functions, or the like of the DAQ instrument (e.g., values of Fmax of 100, 200, 500, IK, 2K, 5K, 10K, 20K, and so on).
  • the extract/process (EP) align module 5068 of the local data control application 5062 may be able to fractionally adjust the sampling rates to these non-integer ratio rates satisfying an important requirement for making data compatible with legacy systems.
  • fractional rates may also be converted to integer ratio rates more readily because the length of the data to be processed may be adjustable. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that if the data was not streamed and just stored as spectra with the standard or predetermined Fmax, it may be impossible in certain situations to convert it retroactively and accurately to the order-sampled data. It will also be appreciated in light of the disclosure that internal identification issues may also need to be reconciled.
  • stream data may be converted to the proper sampling rate and resolution as described and stored (albeit temporarily) in an EP legacy data repository 5070 to ensure compatibility with legacy data.
  • a user input module 5072 is shown in many embodiments should there be no automated process (whether partially or wholly) for identification translation.
  • one or more legacy systems i.e., pre-existing data acquisition
  • the data to be imported is in a fully standardized format such as a MimosaTM format, and other similar formats.
  • sufficient indentation of the legacy data and/or the one or more machines from which the legacy data was produced may be required in the completion of an identification mapping table 5074 to associate and link a portion of the legacy data to a portion of the newly acquired streamed data 5050.
  • the end user and/or legacy vendor may be able to supply sufficient information to complete at least a portion of a functioning identification (ID) mapping table 5074 and therefore may provide the necessary database schema for the raw data of the legacy system to be used for comparison, analysis, and manipulation of newly streamed data 5050.
  • ID identification
  • the local data control application 5062 may also direct streaming data as well as extracted/processed (EP) data to a cloud network facility 5080 via wired or wireless transmission. From the cloud network facility 5080 other devices may access, receive, and maintain data including the data from a master raw data server (MRDS) 5082. The movement, distribution, storage, and retrieval of data remote to the DAQ instrument 5002 may be coordinated by the cloud data management services (CDMS) 5084.
  • CDMS cloud data management services
  • FIG 23 shows additional methods and systems that include the DAQ instrument 5002 accessing related cloud based services.
  • the DAQ API 5052 may control the data collection process as well as its sequence.
  • the DAQ API 5052 may provide the capability for editing processes, viewing plots of the data, controlling the processing of that data, viewing the output data in all its myriad forms, analyzing this data including expert analysis, and communicating with external devices via the local data control application 5062 and with the CDMS 5084 via the cloud network facility 5080.
  • the DAQ API 5052 may also govern the movement of data, its filtering, as well as many other housekeeping functions.
  • an expert analysis module 5100 may generate reports 5102 that may use machine or measurement point specific information from the PCS A information store 5040 to analyze the stream data 5050 using a stream data analyzer module 5104 and the local data control application 5062 with the extract/process (EP) align module 5068.
  • the expert analysis module 5100 may generate new alarms or ingest alarm settings into an alarms module 5108 that is relevant to the stream data 5050.
  • the stream data analyzer module 5104 may provide a manual or automated mechanism for extracting meaningful information from the stream data 5050 in a variety of plotting and report formats.
  • a supervisory control of the expert analysis module 5100 is provided by the DAQ API 5052.
  • the expert analysis module 5100 may be supplied (wholly or partially) via the cloud network facility 5080.
  • the expert analysis module 5100 via the cloud may be used rather than a locally-deployed expert analysis module 5100 for various reasons such as using the most up-to-date software version, more processing capability, a bigger volume of historical data to reference, and so on.
  • the DAQ instrument acquisition may require a real time operating system (RTOS) for the hardware especially for streamed gap-free data that is acquired by a PC.
  • RTOS real time operating system
  • the requirement for a RTOS may result in (or may require) expensive custom hardware and software capable of running such a system.
  • expensive custom hardware and software may be avoided and an RTOS may be effectively and sufficiently implemented using a standard WindowsTM operating systems or similar environments including the system interrupts in the procedural flow of a dedicated application included in such operating systems.
  • the methods and systems disclosed herein may include, connect to, or be integrated with one or more DAQ instruments and in the many embodiments, Figure 24 shows methods and portions of the DAQ instrument 5002 (also known as a streaming DAQ or an SDAQ).
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may effectively and sufficiently implement an RTOS using standard windows operating system (or other similar personal computing systems) that may include a software driver configured with a First In, First Out (FIFO) memory area 5152.
  • the FIFO memory area 5152 may be maintained and hold information for a sufficient amount of time to handle a worst-case interrupt that it may face from the local operating system to effectively provide the RTOS.
  • configurations on a local personal computer or connected device may be maintained to minimize operating system interrupts.
  • the configurations may be maintained, controlled, or adjusted to eliminate (or be isolated from) any exposure to extreme environments where operating system interrupts may become an issue.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may produce a notification, alarm, message, or the like to notify a user when any gap errors are detected. In these many examples, such errors may be shown to be rare and even if they occur, the data may be adjusted knowing when they occurred should such a situation arise.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may maintain a sufficiently large FIFO memory area 5152 that may buffer the incoming data so as to be not affected by operating system interrupts when acquiring data. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the predetermined size of the FIFO memory area 5152 may be based on operating system interrupts that may include Windows system and application functions such as the writing of data to Disk or SSD, plotting, GUI interactions and standard Windows tasks, low-level driver tasks such as servicing the DAQ hardware and retrieving the data in bursts, and the like.
  • operating system interrupts may include Windows system and application functions such as the writing of data to Disk or SSD, plotting, GUI interactions and standard Windows tasks, low-level driver tasks such as servicing the DAQ hardware and retrieving the data in bursts, and the like.
  • the computer, controller, connected device or the like that may be included in the DAQ instrument 5002 may be configured to acquire data from the one or more hardware devices over a USB port, firewire, ethernet, or the like.
  • the DAQ driver services 5054 may be configured to have data delivered to it periodically so as to facilitate providing a channel specific FIFO memory buffer that may be configured to not miss data, i.e. it is gap-free.
  • the DAQ driver services 5054 may be configured so as to maintain an even larger (than the device) channel specific FIFO memory area 5152 that it fills with new data obtained from the device.
  • the DAQ driver services 5054 may be configured to employ a further process in that the raw data server 5058 may take data from the FIFO 5152 and may write it as a contiguous stream to non-volatile storage areas such as the stream data repository 5060 that may be configured as one or more disk drives, SSDs, or the like.
  • the FIFO memory area 5152 may be configured to include a starting and stopping marker or pointer to mark where the latest most current stream was written.
  • a FIFO end marker 5254 may be configured to mark the end of the most current data until it reaches the end of the spooler and then wraps around constantly cycling around.
  • the DAQ driver services 5054 may be configured to use the DAQ API 5052 to pipe the most recent data to a high-level application for processing, graphing and analysis purposes. In some examples, it is not required that this data be gap-free but even in these instances, it is helpful to identify and mark the gaps in the data. Moreover, these data updates may be configured to be frequent enough so that the user would perceive the data as live.
  • the raw data is flushed to non-volatile storage without a gap at least for the prescribed amount of time and examples of the prescribed amount of time may be about thirty seconds to over four hours. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that many pieces of equipment and their components may contribute to the relative needed duration of the stream of gap-free data and those durations may be over four hours when relatively low speeds are present in large numbers, when non-periodic transient activity is occurring on a relatively long time frame, when duty cycle only permits operation in relevant ranges for restricted durations and the like.
  • the stream data analyzer module 5104 may provide for the manual or extraction of information from the data stream in a variety of plotting and report formats.
  • resampling, filtering (including anti-aliasing), transfer functions, spectrum analysis, enveloping, averaging, peak detection functionality, as well as a host of other signal processing tools may be available for the analyst to analyze the stream data and to generate a very large array of snapshots. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that much larger arrays of snapshots are created than ever would have been possible by scheduling the collection of snapshots beforehand, i.e. during the initial data acquisition for the measurement point in question.
  • Figure 25 depicts a display 5200 whose viewable content 5202 may be accessed locally or remotely, wholly or partially.
  • the display 5200 may be part of the DAQ instrument 5002, may be part of the PC or connected device that may be part of the DAQ instrument 5002, or its viewable content 5202 may be viewable from associated network connected displays.
  • the viewable content 5202 of the display 5200 or portions thereof may be ported to one or more relevant network addresses.
  • the viewable content 5202 may include a screen 5204 that shows, for example, an approximately two-minute data stream 5208 may be collected at a sampling rate of 25.6 kHz for four channels 5220, 5222, 5224, 5228, simultaneously.
  • the length of the data may be approximately 3.1 megabytes.
  • the data stream (including each of its four channels or as many as applicable) may be replayed in some aspects like a magnetic tape recording (i.e., like a reel-to-reel or a cassette) with all of the controls normally associated such playback such as forward 5230, fast forward, backward 5232, fast rewind, step back, step forward, advance to time point, retreat to time point, beginning 5234, end 5238, play 5240, stop 5242, and the like. Additionally, the playback of the data stream may further be configured to set a width of the data stream to be shown as a contiguous subset of the entire stream.
  • the entire two minutes may be selected by the select all button 5244, or some subset thereof is selected with the controls on the screen 5204 or that may be placed on the screen 5204 by configuring the display 5200 and the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • the process selected data button 5250 on the screen 5204 may be selected to commit to a selection of the data stream.
  • Figure 26 depicts the many embodiments that include a screen 5250 on the display 5200 displaying results of selecting all of the data for this example.
  • the screen 5250 in Figure 26 may provide the same or similar playback capabilities of what is depicted on the screen 5204 shown in Figure 25 but additionally includes resampling capabilities, waveform displays, and spectrum displays. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that this functionality may permit the user to choose in many situations any Fmax less than that supported by the original streaming sampling rate.
  • any section of any size may be selected and further processing, analytics, and tools for looking at and dissecting the data may be provided.
  • the screen 5250 may include four windows 5252, 5254, 5258, 5260 that show the stream data from the four channels 5220, 5222, 5224, 5228 of Figure 25.
  • the screen 5250 may also include offset and overlap controls 5262, resampling controls 5264, and the like.
  • any one of many transfer functions may be established between any two channels such as the two channels 5280, 5282 that may be shown on a screen 5284 shown on the display 5200, as shown in Figure 27.
  • the selection of the two channels 5280, 5282 on the screen 5284 may permit the user to depict the output of the transfer function on any of the screens including screen 5284 and screen 5204.
  • Figure 28 shows a high-resolution spectrum screen 5300 on the display 5200 with a waveform view 5302, full cursor control 5304 and a peak extraction view 5308.
  • the peak extraction view 5308 may be configured with a resolved configuration 5310 that may be configured to provide enhanced amplitude and frequency accuracy and may use spectral sideband energy distribution.
  • the peak extraction view 5308 may also be configured with averaging 5312, phase and cursor vector information 5314, and the like.
  • Figure 29 shows an enveloping screen 5350 on the display 5200 with a waveform view 5352, and a spectral format view 5354.
  • the views 5352, 5354 on the enveloping screen 5350 may display modulation from the signal in both waveform and spectral formats.
  • Figure 30 shows a relative phase screen 5380 on the display 5200 with four phase views 5382, 5384, 5388, 5390.
  • the four phase views 5382, 5384, 5388, 5390 relate to the on spectrum the enveloping screen 5350 that may display modulation from the signal in waveform format in view 5352 and spectral format in view 5354.
  • the reference channel control 5392 may be selected to use channel four as a reference channel to determine relative phase between each of the channels.
  • the sampling rates of vibration data of up to 100 kHz may be utilized for non- vibration sensors as well. In doing so, it will further be appreciated in light of the disclosure that stream data in such durations at these sampling rates may uncover new patterns to be analyzed due in no small part that many of these types of sensors have not been utilized in this manner. It will also be appreciated in light of the disclosure that different sensors used in machinery condition monitoring may provide measurements more akin to static levels rather than fast-acting dynamic signals. In some cases, faster response time transducers may have to be used prior to achieving the faster sampling rates.
  • sensors may have a relatively static output such as temperature, pressure, or flow but may still be analyzed with dynamic signal processing system and methodologies as disclosed herein. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the time scale, in many examples, may be slowed down. In many examples, a collection of temperature readings collected approximately every minute for over two weeks may be analyzed for their variation solely or in collaboration or in fusion with other relevant sensors. By way of these examples, the direct current level or average level may be omitted from all the readings (e.g., by subtraction) and the resulting delta measurements may be processed (e.g., through a Fourier transform). From these examples, resulting spectral lines may correlate to specific machinery behavior or other symptoms present in industrial system processes.
  • other techniques include enveloping that may look for modulation, wavelets that may look for spectral patterns that last only for a short time (i.e., bursts), cross-channel analysis to look for correlations with other sensors including vibration, and the like.
  • FIG 31 shows a DAQ instrument 5400 that may be integrated with one or more analog sensors 5402 and endpoint nodes 5404 to provide a streaming sensor 5410 or smart sensors that may take in analog signals and then process and digitize them, and then transmit them to one or more external monitoring systems 5412 in the many embodiments that may be connected to, interfacing with, or integrated with the methods and systems disclosed herein.
  • the monitoring system 5412 may include a streaming hub server 5420 that may communicate with the cloud data management services (CDMS) 5084.
  • CDMS 5084 may contact, use, and integrate with cloud data 5430 and cloud services 5432 that may be accessible through one or more cloud network facilities 5080.
  • the steaming hub server 5420 may connect with another streaming sensor 5440 that may include a DAQ instrument 5442, an endpoint node 5444, and the one or more analog sensors such as analog sensor 5448.
  • the steaming hub server 5420 may connect with other streaming sensors such as the streaming sensor 5460 that may include a DAQ instrument 5462, an endpoint node 5464, and the one or more analog sensors such as analog sensor 5468.
  • the steaming hub server 5480 may connect with other streaming sensors such as the streaming sensor 5490 that may include a DAQ instrument 5492, an endpoint node 5494, and the one or more analog sensors such as analog sensor 5498.
  • the steaming hub server 5480 may also connect with other streaming sensors such as the streaming sensor 5500 that may include a DAQ instrument 5502, an endpoint node 5504, and the one or more analog sensors such as analog sensor 5508.
  • the transmission may include averaged overall levels and in other examples may include dynamic signal sampled at a prescribed and/or fixed rate.
  • the streaming sensors 5410, 5440, 5460, 5490, 5500 may be configured to acquire analog signals and then apply signal conditioning to those analog signals including coupling, averaging, integrating, differentiating, scaling, filtering of various kinds, and the like.
  • the streaming sensors 5410, 5440, 5460, 5490, 5500 may be configured to digitize the analog signals at an acceptable rate and resolution (number of bits) and further processing the digitized signal when required.
  • the streaming sensors 5410, 5440, 5460, 5490, 5500 may be configured to transmit the digitized signals at predetermined, adjustable, and re-adjustable rates.
  • the streaming sensors 5410, 5440, 5460, 5490, 5500 are configured to acquire, digitize, process, and transmit data at a sufficient effective rate so that a relatively consistent stream of data may be maintained for a suitable amount of time so that a large number of effective analyses may be shown to be possible.
  • this long duration data stream with effectively no gap in the stream is in contrast to the more commonly used burst collection where data is collected for a relatively short period of time (i.e., a short burst of collection), followed by a pause, and then perhaps another burst collection and so on.
  • data would be collected at a slow rate for low frequency analysis and high frequency for high frequency analysis.
  • the streaming data is in contrast (i) being collected once, (ii) being collected at the highest useful and possible sampling rate, and (iii) being collected for a long enough time that low frequency analysis may be performed as well as high frequency.
  • the one or more streaming sensors such as the streaming sensors 5410, 5440, 5460, 5490, 5500 so that new data may be off-loaded externally to another system before the memory overflows.
  • data in this memory would be stored into and accessed from in FIFO mode (First-In, First-Out).
  • the memory with a FIFO area may be a dual port so that the sensor controller may write to one part of it while the external system reads from a different part.
  • data flow traffic may be managed by semaphore logic.
  • vibration transducers that are larger in mass will have a lower linear frequency response range because the natural resonance of the probe is inversely related to the square root of the mass and will be lowered. Toward that end, a resonant response is inherently non-linear and so a transducer with a lower natural frequency will have a narrower linear passband frequency response. It will also be appreciated in light of the disclosure that above the natural frequency the amplitude response of the sensor will taper off to negligible levels rendering it even more unusable. With that in mind, high frequency accelerometers, for this reason, tend to be quite small in mass of the order of half of a gram. It will also be appreciated in light of the disclosure that adding the required signal processing and digitizing electronics required for streaming may, in certain situations, render the sensors incapable in many instances of measuring high-frequency activity.
  • streaming hubs such as the streaming hubs 5420, 5480 may effectively move the electronics required for streaming to an external hub via cable. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the streaming hubs may be located virtually next to the streaming sensors or up to a distance supported by the electronic driving capability of the hub. In instances where an internet cache protocol (ICP) is used, the distance supported by the electronic driving capability of the hub would be anywhere from 100 to 1000 feet (30.5 to 305 meters) based on desired frequency response, cable capacitance and the like. In embodiments, the streaming hubs may be positioned in a location convenient for receiving power as well as connecting to a network (be it LAN or WAN). In embodiments, other power options would include solar, thermal as well as energy harvesting. Transfer between the streaming sensors and any external systems may be wireless or wired and may include such standard communication technologies as 802.11 and 900 MHz wireless systems, Ethernet, USB, firewire and so on.
  • the many examples of the DAQ instrument 5002 include embodiments where data that may be uploaded from the local data control application 5062 to the master raw data server (MRDS) 5082.
  • information in the multimedia probe (MMP) and probe control, sequence and analytical (PCSA) information store 5040 may also be downloaded from the MRDS 5082 down to the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • Further details of the MRDS 5082 are shown in Figure 32 including embodiments where data may be transferred to the MRDS 5082 from the DAQ instrument 5002 via a wired or wireless network, or through connection to one or more portable media, drive, other network connections, or the like.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may be configured to be portable and may be carried on one or more predetermined routes to assess predefined points of measurement.
  • the operating system that may be included in the MRDS 5082 may be WindowsTM, LinuxTM, or MacOSTM operating systems or other similar operating systems and in these arrangements, the operating system, modules for the operating system, and other needed libraries, data storage, and the like may be accessible wholly or partially through access to the cloud network facility 5080.
  • the MRDS 5082 may reside directly on the DAQ instrument 5002 especially in on-line system examples.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may be linked on an intra-network in a facility but may otherwise but behind a firewall.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may be linked to the cloud network facility 5080.
  • one of the computers or mobile computing devices may be effectively designated the MRDS 5082 to which all of the other computing devices may feed it data such as one of the MRDS 6104, as depicted in Figures 41 and 42.
  • one or more of the DAQ instruments 5002 may be effectively designated the MRDS 5082 to which all of the other computing devices may feed it data.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may be deployed and configured to receive stream data in an environment where the methods and systems disclosed herein are intelligently assigning, controlling, adjusting, and readjusting data pools, computing resources, network bandwidth for local data collection, and the like one or more of the DAQ instruments 5002 may be effectively designated the MRDS 5082 to which all of the other computing devices may feed it data.
  • new raw streaming data may be uploaded to one or more master raw data servers as needed or as scaled to in various environments.
  • a master raw data server (MRDS) 5700 may connect to and receive data from other master raw data servers such as the MRDS 5082.
  • the MRDS 5700 may include a data distribution manager module 5702.
  • the new raw streaming data may be stored in the new stream data repository 5704.
  • the new stream data repository 5704 and new extract and process data repository 5708 may be similarly configured as a temporary storage area.
  • the MRDS 5700 may include a stream data analyzer module 5710 with an extract and process alignment module.
  • the analyzer module 5710 may be shown to be a more robust data analyzer and extractor than may be typically found on portable streaming DAQ instruments although it may be deployed on the DAQ instrument 5002 as well.
  • the analyzer module 5710 takes streaming data and instantiates it at a specific sampling rate and resolution similar to the local data control module 5062 on the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • the specific sampling rate and resolution of the analyzer module 5710 may be based on either user input 5712 or automated extractions from a multimedia probe (MMP) and the probe control, sequence and analytical (PCSA) information store 5714 and/or an identification mapping table 5718, which may require the user input 5712 if there is incomplete information regarding various forms of legacy data similar to as was detailed with the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • legacy data may be processed with the analyzer module 5710 and may be stored in one or more temporary holding areas such as a new legacy data repository 5722. One or more temporary areas may be configured to hold data until it is copied to an archive and verified.
  • the analyzer 5710 module may also facilitate in-depth analysis by providing many varying types of signal processing tools including but not limited to filtering, Fourier transforms, weighting, resampling, envelope demodulation, wavelets, two-channel analysis, and the like. From this analysis, many different types of plots and mini -reports may be generated from a reports and plots module 5724. In embodiments, data is sent to the processing, analysis, reports, and archiving (PARA) server 5730 upon user initiation or in an automated fashion especially for on-line systems.
  • PARA processing, analysis, reports, and archiving
  • a processing, analysis, reports, and archiving (PARA) server 5750 may connect to and receive data from other PARA servers such as the PARA server 5730.
  • the PARA server 5730 may provide data to a supervisory module 5752 on the PARA server 5750 that may be configured to provide at least one of processing, analysis, reporting, archiving, supervisory, and similar functionalities.
  • the supervisory module 5752 may also contain extract, process align functionality and the like.
  • incoming streaming data may first be stored in a raw data stream archive 5760 after being properly validated.
  • data may be extracted, analyzed, and stored in an extract and process (EP) raw data archive 5764.
  • various reports from a reports module 5768 are generated from the supervisory module 5752.
  • the various reports from the reports module 5768 include trend plots of various smart bands, overalls along with statistical patterns, and the like.
  • the reports module 5768 may also be configured to compare incoming data to historical data. By way of these examples, the reports module 5768 may search for and analyze adverse trends, sudden changes, machinery defect patterns, and the like.
  • the PARA server 5750 may include an expert analysis module 5770 from which reports generated and analysis may be conducted.
  • archived data may be fed to a local master server (LMS) 5772 via a server module 5774 that may connect to the local area network.
  • LMS local master server
  • server module 5774 may connect to the local area network.
  • archived data may also be fed to the LMS 5772 via a cloud data management server (CDMS) 5778 through a server application 5780 for a cloud network facility 5080.
  • CDMS cloud data management server
  • the supervisory module 5752 on the PARA server 5750 may be configured to provide at least one of processing, analysis, reporting, archiving, supervisory, and similar functionalities from which alarms may be generated, rated, stored, modifying, reassigned, and the like with an alarm generator module 5782.
  • Figure 34 depicts various embodiments that include a processing, analysis, reports, and archiving (PARA) server 5800 and its connection to a local area network (LAN) 5802.
  • PARA processing, analysis, reports, and archiving
  • one or more DAQ instruments such as the DAQ instrument 5002 may receive and process analog data from one or more analog sensors 5711 that may be fed into the DAQ instrument 5002.
  • the DAQ instrument 5002 may create a digital stream of data based on the ingested analog data from the one or more analog sensors.
  • the digital stream from the DAQ instrument 5002 may be uploaded to the MRDS 5082 and from there, it may be sent to the PARA server 5800 where multiple terminals such as terminal 5810 5812, 5814 may each interface with it or the MRDS 5082 and view the data and/or analysis reports.
  • the PARA server 5800 may communicate with a network data server 5820 that may include a local master server (LMS) 5822.
  • LMS local master server
  • the LMS 5822 may be configured as an optional storage area for archived data.
  • the LMS 5822 may also be configured as an external driver that may be connected to a PC or other computing device that may run the LMS 5822 or the LMS 5822 may be directly run by the PARA server 5800 where the LMS 5822 may be configured to operate and coexist with the PARA server 5800.
  • the LMS 5822 may connect with a raw data stream archive 5824, an extra and process (EP) raw data archive 5828, and a multimedia probe (MMP) and probe control, sequence and analytical (PCSA) information store 5830.
  • a cloud data management server (CDMS) 5832 may also connect to the LAN 5802 and may also support the archiving of data.
  • portable connected devices 5850 such a tablet 5852 and a smart phone 5854 may connect the CDMS 5832 using web APIs 5860 and 5862, respectively, as depicted in Figure 35.
  • the APIs 5860, 5862 may be configured to execute in a browser and may permit access via a cloud network facility 5870 of all (or some of) the functions previously discussed as accessible through the PARA Server 5800.
  • computing devices of a user 5880 such as computing devices 5882, 5884, 5888 may also access the cloud network facility 5870 via a browser or other connection in order to receive the same functionality.
  • thin-client apps which do not require any other device drivers and may be facilitated by web services supported by cloud services 5890 and cloud data 5892.
  • the thin-client apps may be developed and reconfigured using, for example, the visual high-level Lab VIEWTM programming language with NXGTM Web- based virtual interface subroutines.
  • thin client apps may provide high-level graphing functions such as those supported by LabVIEWTM tools.
  • the LabVIEWTM tools may generate JSCRIPTTM code and JAVATM code that may be edited post-compilation.
  • the NXGTM tools may generate Web VPs that may not require any specialized driver and only some RESTfulTM services which may be readily installed from any browser. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that because various applications may be run inside a browser, the applications may be run on any operating system, be it WindowsTM, LinuxTM, and AndroidTM operating systems especially for personal devices, mobile devices, portable connected devices, and the like.
  • the CDMS 5832 is depicted in greater detail in Figure 36.
  • the CDMS 5832 may provide all of the data storage and services that the PARA Server 5800 ( Figure 34) may provide.
  • all of the API's may be web API's which may run in a browser and all other apps may run on the PARA Server 5800 or the DAQ instrument 5002 may typically be WindowsTM, LinuxTM or other similar operating systems.
  • the CDMS 5832 includes at least one of or combinations of the following functions.
  • the CDMS 5832 may include a cloud GUI 5900 that may be configured to provide access to all data, plots including trend, waveform, spectra, envelope, transfer function, logs of measurement events, analysis including expert, utilities, and the like.
  • the CDMS 5832 may include a cloud data exchange 5902 configured to facilitate the transfer of data to and from the cloud network facility 5870.
  • the CDMS 5832 may include a cloud plots/trends module 5904 that may be configured to show all plots via web apps including trend, waveform, spectra, envelope, transfer function, and the like.
  • the CDMS 5832 may include a cloud reporter 5908 that may be configured to provide all analysis reports, logs, expert analysis, trend plots, statistical information, and the like.
  • the CDMS 5832 may include a cloud alarm module 5910.
  • Alarms from the cloud alarm module 5910 may be generated to various devices 5920 via email, texts, or other messaging mechanisms. From the various modules, data may be stored in new data 5914.
  • the various devices 5920 may include a terminal 5922, portable connected device 5924, or a tablet 5928.
  • the alarms from the cloud alarm module are designed to be interactive so that the end user may acknowledge alarms in order to avoid receiving redundant alarms and also to see significant context-sensitive data from the alarm points that may include spectra, waveform statistical info, and the like.
  • a relational database server (RDS) 5930 may be used to access all of the information from a multimedia probe (MMP) and probe control, sequence and analytical (PCSA) information store 5932.
  • MMP multimedia probe
  • PCSA probe control, sequence and analytical
  • information from the MMP PCSAinformation store 5932 may be used with an extra, process (EP) and align module 5934, a data exchange 5938 and the expert system 5940.
  • EP extra, process
  • a raw data stream archive 5942 and extract and process raw data archive 5944 may also be used by the EP align 5934, the data exchange 5938 and the expert system 5940 as with the PARA server 5800.
  • new stream raw data 5950, new extract and process raw data 5952, and new data 5954 are directed by the CDMS 5832.
  • the streaming data may be linked with the RDS 5930 and the MMP and PCSA information store 5932 using a technical data management streaming (TDMS) file format.
  • the information store 5932 may include tables for recording at least portions of all measurement events.
  • a measurement event may be any single data capture, a stream, a snapshot, an averaged level, or an overall level.
  • Each of the measurement events in addition to point identification information may also have a date and time stamp.
  • a link may be made between the streaming data, the measurement event, and the tables in the information store 5932 using the TDMS format.
  • the link may be created by storing a unique measurement point identification codes with a file structure having the TDMS format by including and assigning TDMS properties.
  • a file with the TDMS format may allow for three levels of hierarchy.
  • the three levels of hierarchy may be root, group, and channel.
  • the MimosaTM database schema may be, in theory, unlimited. With that said, there are advantages to limited TDMS hierarchies.
  • the following properties may be proposed for adding to the TDMS Stream structure while using a Mimosa Compatible database schema.
  • Global ID 1 Text String (This could be a unique ID obtained from the web.)
  • Global ID 2 Text String (This could be an additional ID obtained from the web.)
  • Company Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Company Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Site Asset ID 4-byte Integer
  • Section 1 Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Section 1 Asset ID 4-byte Integer
  • Machine Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Machine Asset ID 4-byte Integer
  • Equipment Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Equipment Asset ID 4-byte Integer
  • Probe Segment ID 4-byte Integer
  • Probe Asset ID 4-byte Integer
  • Direction 4-byte Integer (in certain examples may be text)
  • the file with the TDMS format may automatically use property or asset information and may make an index file out of the specific property and asset information to facilitate database searches. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that the TDMS format may offer a compromise for storing voluminous streams of data because it may be optimized for storing binary streams of data but may also include some minimal database structure making many standard SQL operations feasible.
  • the TDMS format and functionality discussed herein may not be as efficient as a full-fledged SQL relational database, the TDMS format, however, may take advantages of both worlds in that it may balance between the class or format of writing and storing large streams of binary data efficiently and the class or format of a fully relational database which facilitates searching, sorting and data retrieval.
  • an optimum solution may be found such that metadata required for analytical purposes and extracting prescribed lists with panel conditions for stream collection may be stored in the RDS 5930 by establishing a link between the two database methodologies.
  • relatively large analog data streams may be stored predominantly as binary storage in the raw data stream archive 5942 for rapid stream loading but with inherent relational SQL type hooks, formats, conventions, or the like.
  • the files with the TDMS format may also be configured to incorporate DIAdemTM reporting capability of Lab VIEWTM software so as to provide a further mechanism to facilitate conveniently and rapidly accessing the analog or the streaming data.
  • the methods and systems disclosed herein may include, connect to, or be integrated with a virtual data acquisition instrument and in the many embodiments, Figure 37 shows methods and systems that include a virtual streaming data acquisition (DAQ) instrument 6000 also known as a virtual DAQ instrument, a VRDS, or a VSDAQ.
  • the virtual DAQ instrument 6000 may be configured so to only include one native application.
  • the one permitted one native application may be the DAQ driver module 6002 that may manage all communications with the DAQ Device 6004 that may include streaming capabilities.
  • other applications if any, may be configured as thin client web applications such as RESTfulTM web services.
  • the one native application or other applications or services may be accessible through the DAQ Web API 6010.
  • the DAQ Web API 6010 may run in or be accessible through various web browsers.
  • storage of streaming data, as well as the extraction and processing of streaming data into extract and process data may be handled primarily by the DAQ driver services 6012 under the direction of the DAQ Web API 6010.
  • the output from sensors of various types including vibration, temperature, pressure, ultrasound and so on may be fed into the instrument inputs of the DAQ device 6004.
  • the signals from the output sensors may be signal conditioned with respect to scaling and filtering and digitized with an analog to digital converter.
  • the signals from the output sensors may be signals from all relevant channels simultaneously sampled at a rate sufficient to perform the maximum desired frequency analysis.
  • the signals from the output sensors may be sampled for a relatively long time, gap-free as one continuous stream so as to enable a wide array of further post-processing at lower sampling rates with sufficient samples.
  • streaming frequency may be adjusted (and readjusted) to record streaming data at non-evenly spaced recording.
  • varying delta times between samples may further improve quality of the data.
  • data may be streamed from a collection of points and then the next set of data may be collected from additional points according to a prescribed sequence, route, path, or the like.
  • the portable sensors may be moved to the next location according to the prescribed sequence but not necessarily all of them as some may be used for reference phase or otherwise.
  • a multiplexer 6020 may be used to switch to the next collection of points or a mixture of the two methods may be combined.
  • the sequence and panel conditions that may be used to govern the data collection process using the virtual DAQ instrument 6000 may be obtained from the MMP PCSA information store 6022.
  • the MMP PCSA information store 6022 may include such items as the hierarchical structural relationships of the machine, e.g., a machine contains pieces of equipment in which each piece of equipment contains shafts and each shaft is associated with bearings, which may be monitored by specific types of transducers or probes according to a specific prescribed sequence (routes, path, etc.) with specific panel conditions.
  • the panel conditions may include hardware specific switch settings or other collection parameters such as sampling rate, AC/DC coupling, voltage range and gain, integration, high and low pass filtering, anti-aliasing filtering, ICPTM transducers and other integrated-circuit piezoelectric transducers, 4-20 niA loop sensors, and the like.
  • the information store 6022 includes other information that may be stored in what would be machinery specific features that would be important for proper analysis including the number of gear teeth for a gear, the number of blades in a pump impeller, the number of motor rotor bars, bearing specific parameters necessary for calculating bearing frequencies, lx rotating speed (e.g., RPMs) of all rotating elements, and the like.
  • digitized waveforms may be uploaded using the DAQ driver services 6012 of the virtual DAQ instrument 6000.
  • data may then be fed into an RLN data and control server 6030 that may store the stream data into a network stream data repository 6032.
  • the server 6030 may run from within the DAQ driver module 6002. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that a separate application may require drivers for running in the native operating system and for this instrument only the instrument driver may run natively. In many examples, all other applications may be configured to be browser based. As such, a relevant network variable may be very similar to a Lab VIEWTM shared or network stream variable which may be designed to be accessed over one or more networks or via web applications.
  • the DAQ Web API 6010 may also direct the local data control application 6034 to extract and process the recently obtained streaming data and, in turn, convert it to the same or lower sampling rates of sufficient length to provide the desired resolution.
  • This data may be converted to spectra, then averaged and processed in a variety of ways and stored as extracted/processed (EP) data 6040.
  • EP data repository 6040 but this repository may, in certain embodiments, only be meant for temporary storage.
  • legacy data may require its own sampling rates and resolution and often this sampling rate may not be integer proportional to the acquired sampling rate especially for order-sampled data whose sampling frequency is related directly to an external frequency, which is typically the running speed of the machine or its internal componentry, rather than the more-standard sampling rates produced by the internal crystals, clock functions, and the like of the (e.g., values of Fmax of 100, 200, 500, IK, 2K, 5K, 10K, 20K and so on) of the DAQ instrument 5002, 6000.
  • the EP (extract/process) align component of the local data control application 6034 is able to fractionally adjust the sampling rate to the non-integer ratio rates that may be more applicable to legacy data sets and therefore driving compatibility with legacy systems.
  • the fractional rates may be converted to integer ratio rates more readily because the length of the data to be processed (or at least that portion of the greater stream of data) is adjustable because of the depth and content of the original acquired streaming data by the DAQ instrument 5002, 6000. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that if the data was not streamed and just stored as traditional snap-shots of spectra with the standard values of Fmax, it may very well be impossible to convert retroactively and accurately the acquired data to the order-sampled data.
  • the stream data may be converted, especially for legacy data purposes, to the proper sampling rate and resolution as described and stored in the EP legacy data repository 6042.
  • a user input 6044 may be included should there be no automated process for identification translation.
  • one such automated process for identification translation may include importation of data from a legacy system that may contain fully standardized format such as MimosaTM format and sufficient identification information to complete an ID Mapping Table 6048.
  • the end user, a legacy data vendor, a legacy data storage facility, or the like may be able to supply enough info to complete (or sufficiently complete) relevant portions of the ID Mapping Table 6048 to provide, in turn, the database schema for the raw data of the legacy system so it may be readily ingested, saved, and use for analytics in the current systems disclosed herein.
  • FIG. 38 depicts further embodiments and details of the virtual DAQ Instrument 6000.
  • the DAQ Web API 6010 may control the data collection process as well as its sequence.
  • the DAQ Web API 6010 may provide the capability for editing this process, viewing plots of the data, controlling the processing of that data and viewing the output in all its myriad forms, analyzing this data including the expert analysis, communicating with external devices via the DAQ driver module 6002, as well as communicating with and transferring both streaming data and EP data to one or more cloud network facilities 5080 whenever possible.
  • the virtual DAQ instrument itself and the DAQ Web API 6010 may run independently of access to cloud network facilities 5080 when local demands may require or simply results in no outside connectivity such use throughout a proprietary industrial setting.
  • the DAQ Web API 6010 may also govern the movement of data, its filtering as well as many other housekeeping functions.
  • the virtual DAQ Instrument 6000 may also include an expert analysis module 6052.
  • the expert analysis module 6052 may be a web application or other suitable modules that may generate reports 4916 that may use machine or measurement point specific information from the MMP PCS A information store 6022 to analyze stream data 6058 using the stream data analyzer module 6050.
  • supervisory control of the expert analysis module 6052 may be provided by the DAQ Web API 6010.
  • the expert analysis may also be supplied (or supplemented) via the expert system module 5940 that may be resident on one or more cloud network facilities that are accessible via the CDMS 5832.
  • expert analysis via the cloud may be preferred over local systems such the expert analysis module 6052 for various reasons such as the availability and use of the most up-to-date software version, more processing capability, a bigger volume of historical data to reference and the like. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that it may be important to offer expert analysis when an internet connection cannot be established so as to provide a redundancy, when needed, for seamless and time efficient operation. In embodiments, this redundancy may be extended to all of the discussed modular software applications and databases where applicable so each module discussed herein may be configured to provide redundancy to continue operation in the absence of an internet connection.
  • Figure 39 depicts further embodiments and details of many virtual DAQ instruments existing in an online system and connecting through network endpoints through a central DAQ instrument to one or more cloud network facilities.
  • a master DAQ instrument with network endpoint 6060 is provided along with additional DAQ instruments such as a DAQ instrument with network endpoint 6062, a DAQ instrument with network endpoint 6064, and a DAQ instrument with network endpoint 6068.
  • the master DAQ instrument with network endpoint 6060 may connect with the other DAQ instruments with network endpoints 6062, 6064, 6068 over a local area network (LAN) 6070.
  • LAN local area network
  • each of the instruments 6060, 6062, 6064, 6068 may include personal computer, connected device, or the like that include WindowsTM, LinuxTM or other suitable operating systems to facilitate, among other things, ease of connection of devices utilizing many wired and wireless network options such as Ethernet, wireless 802.1 lg, 900 MHz wireless (e.g., for better penetration of walls, enclosures and other structural barriers commonly encountered in an industrial setting) as well as a myriad of others permitting use of off-the-shelf communication hardware when needed.
  • WindowsTM WindowsTM
  • LinuxTM or other suitable operating systems to facilitate, among other things, ease of connection of devices utilizing many wired and wireless network options such as Ethernet, wireless 802.1 lg, 900 MHz wireless (e.g., for better penetration of walls, enclosures and other structural barriers commonly encountered in an industrial setting) as well as a myriad of others permitting use of off-the-shelf communication hardware when needed.
  • Figure 40 depicts further embodiments and details of many functional components of an endpoint that may be used in the various settings, environments, and network connectivity settings.
  • the endpoint includes endpoint hardware modules 6080.
  • the endpoint hardware modules 6080 may include one or more multiplexers 6082, a DAQ instrument 6084 as well as a computer 6088, computing device, PC, or the like that may include the multiplexers, DAQ instruments, and computers, connected devices and the like disclosed herein.
  • the endpoint software modules 6090 include a data collector application (DCA) 6092 and a raw data server (RDS) 6094.
  • DCA data collector application
  • RDS raw data server
  • DCA 6092 may be similar to the DAQ API 5052 ( Figure 22) and may be configured to be responsible for obtaining stream data from the DAQ device 6084 and storing it locally according to a prescribed sequence or upon user directives.
  • the prescribed sequence or user directives may be a Lab VIEWTM software app that may control and read data from the DAQ instruments.
  • the stored data in many embodiments may be network accessible.
  • Lab VIEWTM tools may be used to accomplish this with a shared variable or network stream (or subsets of shared variables).
  • Shared variables and the affiliated network streams may be network objects that may be optimized for sharing data over the network.
  • the DCA 6092 may be configured with a graphic user interface that may be configured to collect data as efficiently and fast as possible and push it to the shared variable and its affiliated network stream.
  • the endpoint raw data server 6094 may be configured to read raw data from the single-process shared variable and may place it with a master network stream.
  • a raw stream of data from portable systems may be stored locally and temporarily until the raw stream of data is pushed to the MRDS 5082 ( Figure 22).
  • FIG. 41s and 42 depicts further embodiments and details of multiple endpoints with their respective software blocks with at least one of the devices configured as master blocks.
  • Each of the blocks may include a data collector application (DCA) 6100 and a raw data server (RDS) 6102.
  • each of the blocks may also include a master raw data server module (MRDS) 6104, a master data collection and analysis module (MDCA) 6108, and a supervisory and control interface module (SCI) 6110.
  • the MRDS 6104 may be configured to read network stream data (at a minimum) from the other endpoints and may forward it up to one or more cloud network facilities via the CDMS 5832 including the cloud services 5890 and the cloud data 5892.
  • the CDMS 5832 may be configured to store the data and provides web, data, and processing services. In these examples, this may be implemented with a Lab VIEWTM application that may be configured to read data from the network streams or shared variables from all of the local endpoints, writes them to the local host PC, local computing device, connected device, or the like, as both a network stream and file with TDMSTM formatting. In embodiments, the CDMS 5832 may also be configured to then post this data to the appropriate buckets using the LabVIEW or similar software that may be supported by S3TM web service from the AWSTM (Amazon Web Services) on the AmazonTM web server, or the like and may effectively serve as a back-end server. In the many examples, different criteria may be enabled or may be set up for when to post data, to create and adjust schedules, to create and adjust event triggering including a new data event, a buffer full message, one or more alarms messages, and the like.
  • the MDCA 7008 may be configured to provide automated as well as user-directed analyses of the raw data that may include tracking and annotating specific occurrence and in doing so, noting where reports may be generated and alarms may be noted.
  • the SCI 7010 may be an application configured to provide remote control of the system from the cloud as well as the ability to generate status and alarms.
  • the SCI 7010 may be configured to connect to, interface with, or be integrated into a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) control system.
  • SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition
  • the SCI 7010 may be configured as a Lab VIEWTM application that may provide remote control and status alerts that may be provided to any remote device that may connect to one or more of the cloud network facilities 5870.
  • the equipment that is being monitored may include RFID tags that may provide vital machinery analysis background information.
  • the RFID tags may be associated with the entire machine or associated with the individual componentry and may be substituted when certain parts of the machine are replaced, repair, or rebuilt.
  • the RFID tags may provide permanent information relevant to the lifetime of the unit or may also be re-flashed to update with at least portion of new information.
  • the DAQ instruments 5002 disclosed herein may interrogate the one or RFID chips to learn of the machine, its componentry, its service history, and the hierarchical structure of how everything is connected including drive diagrams, wire diagrams, and hydraulic layouts.
  • some of the information that may be retrieved from the RFID tags includes manufacturer, machinery type, model, serial number, model number, manufacturing date, installation date, lots numbers, and the like.
  • machinery type may include the use of a MimosaTM format table including information about one or more of the following motors, gearboxes, fans, and compressors.
  • the machinery type may also include the number of bearings, their type, their positioning, and their identification numbers.
  • the information relevant to the one or more fans includes fan type, number of blades, number of vanes, and number belts. It will be appreciated in light of the disclosure that other machines and their componentry may be similarly arranged hierarchically with relevant information all of which may be available through interrogation of one or more RFID chips associated with the one or more machines.
  • data collection in an industrial environment may include routing analog signals from a plurality of sources, such as analog sensors, to a plurality of analog signal processing circuits. Routing of analog signals may be accomplished by an analog crosspoint switch that may route any of a plurality of analog input signals to any of a plurality of outputs, such as to analog and/or digital outputs. Routing of inputs to outputs in an analog signal crosspoint switch in an industrial environment may be configurable, such by an electronic signal to which a switch portion of the analog crosspoint switch is responsive.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may receive analog signals from a plurality of analog signal sources in the industrial environment.
  • Analog signal sources may include sensors that produce an analog signal.
  • Sensors that produce an analog signal that may be switched by the analog crosspoint switch may include sensors that detect a condition and convert it to analog signal that may be representative of the condition, such as converting a condition to a corresponding voltage.
  • Exemplary conditions that may be represented by a variable voltage may include temperature, friction, sound, light, torque, revolutions-per-minute, mechanical resistance, pressure, flow rate, and the like, including any of the conditions represented by inputs sources and sensors disclosed throughout this disclosure and the documents incorporated herein by reference.
  • Other forms of analog signal may include electrical signals, such as variable voltage, variable current, variable resistance, and the like.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may preserve one or more aspects of an analog signal being input to it in an industrial environment.
  • Analog circuits integrated into the switch may provide buffered outputs.
  • the analog circuits of the analog crosspoint switch may follow an input signal, such as an input voltage to produce a buffered representation on an output. This may alternatively be accomplished by relays (mechanical, solid state, and the like) that allow an analog voltage or current present on an input to propagate to a selected output of the analog switch.
  • an analog crosspoint switch in an industrial environment may be configured to switch any of a plurality of analog inputs to any of a plurality of analog outputs.
  • An analog crosspoint switch may be dynamically configurable so that changes to the configuration causes a change in the mapping of inputs to outputs.
  • a configuration change may apply to one or more mappings so that a change in mapping may result in one or more of the outputs being mapped to different input than before the configuration change.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may have more inputs than outputs, so that only a subset of inputs can be routed to outputs concurrently. In other embodiments, the analog crosspoint switch may have more outputs than inputs, so that either a single input may be made available currently on multiple outputs, or at least one output may not be mapped to any input.
  • an analog crosspoint switch in an industrial environment may be configured to switch any of a plurality of analog inputs to any of a plurality of digital outputs.
  • an analog to digital converter circuit may be configured on each input, each output, or at intermediate points between the input(s) and output(s) of the analog crosspoint switch.
  • Benefits of including digitization of analog signals in an analog crosspoint switch that may be located close to analog signal sources may include reducing signal transport costs and complexity that digital signal communication has over analog, reducing energy consumption, facilitating detection and regulation of aberrant conditions before they propagate throughout an industrial environment, and the like.
  • Capturing analog signals close to their source may also facilitate improved signal routing management that is more tolerant of real world effects such as requiring that multiple signals be routed simultaneously.
  • a portion of the signals can be captured (and stored) locally while another portion can be transferred through the data collection network.
  • the locally stored signals can be delivered, such as with a time stamp indicating the time at which the data was collected. This technique may be useful for applications that have concurrent demand for data collection channels that exceeds the number of channels available.
  • Sampling control may also be based on an indication of data worth sampling.
  • a signal source such as a sensor in an industrial environment may provide a data valid signal that transmits an indication of when data from the sensor is available.
  • mapping inputs of the analog crosspoint switch to outputs may be based on a signal route plan for a portion of the industrial environment that may be presented to the crosspoint switch.
  • the signal route plan may be used in a method of data collection in the industrial environment that may include routing a plurality of analog signals along a plurality of analog signal paths.
  • the method may include connecting the plurality of analog signals individually to inputs of the analog crosspoint switch that may be configured with a route plan.
  • the crosspoint switch may, responsively to the configured route plan, route a portion of the plurality of analog signals to a portion of the plurality of analog signal paths.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may include at least one high current output drive circuit that may be suitable for routing the analog signal along a path that the requires high current.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may include at least one voltage-limited input that may facilitate protecting the analog crosspoint switch from damage due to excessive analog input signal voltage.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may include at least one current limited input that may facilitate protecting the analog crosspoint switch from damage due to excessive analog input current.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may comprise a plurality of interconnected relays that may facilitate routing the input(s) to the output(s) with little or no substantive signal loss.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may include processing functionality, such as signal processing and the like (e.g., a programmed processor, special purpose processor, a digital signal processor, and the like) that may detect one or more analog input signal conditions. In response to such detection, one or more actions may be performed, such as setting an alarm, sending an alarm signal to another device in the industrial environment, changing the crosspoint switch configuration, disabling one or more outputs, powering on/off a portion of the switch, change a state of an output, such as a general purpose digital or analog output, and the like.
  • the switch may be configured to process inputs for producing a signal on one or more of the outputs.
  • the inputs to use, processing algorithm for the inputs, condition for producing the signal, output to use, and the like may be configured in a data collection template.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may comprise greater than 32 inputs and greater than 32 outputs.
  • a plurality of analog crosspoint switches may be configured so that even though each switch offers less than 32 inputs and 32 outputs the may be configured to facilitate switching any of 32 inputs to any of 32 outputs spread across the plurality of crosspoint switches.
  • an analog crosspoint switch suitable for use in an industrial environment may comprise four or fewer inputs and four or fewer outputs. Each output may be configurable to produce an analog output that corresponds to the mapped analog input or it may be configured to produce a digital representation of the corresponding mapped input.
  • an analog crosspoint switch for use in an industrial environment may be configured with circuits that facilitate replicating at least a portion of attributes of the input signal, such as current, voltage range, offset, frequency, duty cycle, ramp rate, and the like while buffering (e.g., isolating) the input signal from the output signal.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may be configured with unbuffered inputs/outputs, thereby effectively producing a bi-directional based crosspoint switch).
  • an analog crosspoint switch for use in an industrial environment may include protected inputs that may be protected from damaging conditions, such as through use of signal conditioning circuits. Protected inputs may prevent damage to the switch and to downstream devices that the switch outputs connect to.
  • inputs to such an analog crosspoint switch may include voltage clipping circuits that prevent a voltage of an input signal from exceeding an input protection threshold.
  • An active voltage adjustment circuit may scale an input signal by reducing it uniformly so that a maximum voltage present on the input does not exceed a safe threshold value.
  • inputs to such an analog crosspoint switch may include current shunting circuits that cause current beyond a maximum input protection current threshold to be diverted through protection circuits rather than enter the switch.
  • Analog switch inputs may be protected from electrostatic discharge and/or lightning strikes.
  • Other signal conditioning functions that may be applied to inputs to an analog crosspoint switch may include voltage scaling circuitry that attempts to facilitate distinguishing between valid input signals and low voltage noise that may be present on the input.
  • inputs to the analog crosspoint switch may be unbuffered and/or unprotected to make the least impact on the signal. Signals such as alarm signals, or signals that cannot readily tolerate protection schemes, such as those schemes described above herein may be connected to unbuffered inputs of the analog crosspoint switch.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may be configured with circuitry, logic, and/or processing elements that may facilitate input signal alarm monitoring. Such an analog crosspoint switch may detect inputs meeting alarm conditions and in response thereto, switch inputs, switch mapping of inputs to outputs, disable inputs, disable outputs, issue an alarm signal, activate/deactivate a general-purpose output, and the like.
  • a system for collecting data in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted to selectively power up or down portions of the analog crosspoint switch or circuitry associated with the analog crosspoint switch, such as input protection devices, input conditioning devices, switch control devices and the like. Portions of the analog crosspoint switch that may be powered on/off may include outputs, inputs, sections of the switch and the like.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may include a modular structure that may separate portions of the switch into independently powered sections. Based on conditions, such as an input signal meeting a criterion or a configuration value being presented to the analog crosspoint switch, one or more modular sections may be powered on / off.
  • a system for collecting data in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted to perform signal processing including, without limitation providing a voltage reference for detecting an input crossing the voltage reference (e.g., zero volts for detecting zero-crossing signals), a phase-lock loop to facilitate capturing slow frequency signals (e.g., low-speed revolution-per-minute signals and detecting their corresponding phase), deriving input signal phase relative to other inputs, deriving input signal phase relative to a reference (e.g., a reference clock), deriving input signal phase relative to detected alarm input conditions and the like.
  • a voltage reference for detecting an input crossing the voltage reference
  • a phase-lock loop to facilitate capturing slow frequency signals (e.g., low-speed revolution-per-minute signals and detecting their corresponding phase)
  • deriving input signal phase relative to other inputs deriving input signal phase relative to a reference (e.g., a reference clock), deriving input signal phase relative to detected alarm input conditions and the like.
  • Such an analog crosspoint switch may support long block sampling at a constant sampling rate even as inputs are switched, which may facilitate input signal rate independence and reduce complexity of sampling scheme(s).
  • a constant sampling rate may be selected from a plurality of rates that may be produced by a circuit, such as a clock divider circuit that may make available a plurality of components of a reference clock.
  • a system for collecting data in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted to support implementing data collection / data routing templates in the industrial environment.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may implement a data collection / data routing template based on conditions in the industrial environment that it may detect or derive, such as an input signal meeting one or more criteria (e.g., transition of a signal from a first condition to a second, lack of transition of an input signal within a predefined time interface (e.g., inactive input) and the like).
  • a system for collecting data in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted to be configured from a portion of a data collection template. Configuration may be done automatically (e.g., without needing human intervention to perform a configuration action or change in configuration), such as based on a time parameter in the template and the like. Configuration may be done remotely, e.g., by sending a signal from a remote location that is detectable by a switch configuration feature of the analog crosspoint switch. Configuration may be done dynamically, such as based on a condition that is detectable by a configuration feature of the analog crosspoint switch (e.g., a timer, an input condition, an output condition, and the like).
  • a condition that is detectable by a configuration feature of the analog crosspoint switch e.g., a timer, an input condition, an output condition, and the like.
  • information for configuring an analog crosspoint switch may be provided in a stream, as a set of control lines, as a data file, as an indexed data set, and the like.
  • configuration information in a data collection template for the switch may include a list of each input and a corresponding output, a list of each output function (active, inactive, analog, digital and the like), a condition for updating the configuration (e.g., an input signal meeting a condition, a trigger signal, a time (relative to another time/event/state, or absolute), a duration of the configuration, and the like.
  • configuration of the switch may be input signal protocol aware so that switching from a first input to a second input for a given output may occur based on the protocol.
  • a configuration change may be initiated with the switch to switch from a first video signal to a second video signal.
  • the configuration circuitry may detect the protocol of the input signal and switch to the second video signal during a synchronization phase of the video signal, such as during horizontal or vertical refresh.
  • switching may occur when one or more of the inputs are at zero volts. This may occur for a sinusoidal signal that transitions from below zero volts to above zero volts.
  • a system for collecting data in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted to provide digital outputs by converting analog signals input to the switch into digital outputs. Converting may occur after switching the analog inputs based on a data collection template and the like.
  • a portion of the switch outputs may be digital and a portion may be analog.
  • Each output, or groups thereof, may be configurable as analog or digital, such as based on analog crosspoint switch output configuration information included in or derived from a data collection template. Circuitry in the analog crosspoint switch may sense an input signal voltage range and intelligently configure an analog to digital conversion function accordingly.
  • a first input may have a voltage range of 12 volts and a second input may have a voltage range of 24 volts.
  • Analog to digital converter circuits for these inputs may be adjusted so that the full range of the digital value (e.g., 256 levels for an 8-bit signal) will map substantially linearly to 12 volts for the first input and 24 volts for the second input.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may automatically configure input circuitry based on characteristics of a connected analog signal. Examples of circuitry configuration may include setting a maximum voltage, a threshold based on a sensed maximum threshold, a voltage range above and/or below a ground reference, an offset reference, and the like.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may also adapt inputs to support voltage signals, current signals, and the like.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may detect a protocol of an input signal, such as a video signal protocol, audio signal protocol, digital signal protocol, protocol based on input signal frequency characteristics, and the like. Other aspects of inputs of the analog crosspoint switch that may be adapted based on the incoming signal may include a duration of sampling of the signal, and comparator or differential type signals, and the like.
  • an analog crosspoint switch may be configured with functionality to counteract input signal drift and/or leakage that may occur when an analog signal is passed through it over a long period of time without changing value (e.g., a constant voltage).
  • Techniques may include voltage boost, current injection, periodic zero referencing (e.g., temporarily connecting the input to a reference signal, such as ground, applying a high resistance pathway to the ground reference, and the like).
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch deployed in an assembly line comprising conveyers and/or lifters.
  • a power roller conveyor system includes many rollers that deliver product along a path. There may be many points along the path that may be monitored for proper operation of the rollers, load being placed on the rollers, accumulation of products, and the like.
  • a power roller conveyor system may also facilitate moving product through longer distances and therefore may have a large number of products in transport at once.
  • a system for data collection in such an assembly environment may include sensors that detect a wide range of conditions as well as at a large number of positions along the transport path. As a product progresses down the path, some sensors may be active and others, such as those that the product has passed maybe inactive.
  • a data collection system may use an analog crosspoint switch to select only those sensors that are currently or anticipated to be active by switching from inputs that connect to inactive sensors to those that connect to active sensors and thereby provide the most useful sensor signals to data detection and/or collection and/or processing facilities.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may be configured by a conveyor control system that monitors product activity and instructs the analog crosspoint switch to direct different inputs to specific outputs based on a control program or data collection template associated with the assembly environment.
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch deployed in a factory comprising use of fans as industrial components.
  • fans in a factory setting may provide a range of functions including drying, exhaust management, clean air flow and the like.
  • monitoring fan rotational speed, torque, and the like may be beneficial to detect an early indication of a potential problem with air flow being produced by the fans.
  • sensors such as tachometers, torque meters, and the like may be disposed at each fan and their analog output signal(s) may be provided to an analog crosspoint switch.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may be used to select among the many sensors and pass along a subset of the available sensor signals to data collection, monitoring, and processing systems.
  • sensor signals from sensors disposed at a group of fans may be selected to be switched onto crosspoint switch outputs.
  • the analog crosspoint switch may be reconfigured to switch signals from another group of fans to be processed.
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment may include an analog crosspoint switch deployed as an industrial component in a turbine-based power system.
  • a data collection system that includes an analog crosspoint switch may provide this capability by connecting each vibration sensor to separate inputs of the analog crosspoint switch and configuring the switch to output a subset of its inputs.
  • a vibration data processing system such as a computer, may determine which sensors to pass through the analog crosspoint switch and configure an algorithm to perform the vibration analysis accordingly.
  • sensors for capturing turbine cover vibration may be selected in the analog crosspoint switch to be passed on to a system that is configured with an algorithm to determine turbine cover vibration from the sensor signals.
  • the crosspoint switch may be configured to pass along thrust bearing axial vibration sensor signals and a corresponding vibration analysis algorithm may be applied to the data. In this way, each type of vibration may be analyzed by a single processing system that works cooperatively with an analog crosspoint switch to pass specific sensor signals for processing.
  • an analog crosspoint switch for collecting data in an industrial environment is depicted.
  • the analog crosspoint switch 7022 may have a plurality of inputs 7024 that connect to sensors 7026 in the industrial environment.
  • the analog crosspoint switch 7022 may also comprise a plurality of outputs 7028 that connect to data collection infrastructure, such as analog to digital converters 7030, analog comparators 7032, and the like.
  • the analog crosspoint switch 7022 may facilitate connecting one or more inputs 7024 to one or more outputs 7028 by interpreting a switch control value that may be provided to it by a controller 7034 and the like.
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising;
  • analog signal sources that each connect to at least one input of an analog crosspoint switch comprising a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs;
  • analog crosspoint switch is configurable to switch a portion of the input signal sources to a plurality of the outputs.
  • analog crosspoint switch further comprises an analog to digital converter that converts a portion of analog signals input to the crosspoint switch into representative digital signals.
  • a system of data collection in an industrial environment comprising:
  • a crosspoint switch that receives the analog signals and routes the analog signals to separate analog outputs of the crosspoint switch based on a signal route plan presented to the crosspoint switch.
  • analog crosspoint switch further comprises an analog to digital converter that converts a portion of analog signals input to the crosspoint switch into representative digital signals.
  • analog to digital converter that converts a portion of analog signals input to the crosspoint switch into representative digital signals.
  • a method of data collection in an industrial environment comprising routing a plurality of analog signals along a plurality of analog signal paths by:
  • analog crosspoint switch comprises a plurality of interconnected relays that facilitate connecting any of a plurality of input to any of a plurality of outputs
  • analog crosspoint switch further comprises an analog to digital converter that converts a portion of analog signals input to the crosspoint switch into a representative digital signal
  • analog crosspoint switch further comprising signal processing functionality to detect one or more analog input signal conditions and in response thereto perform an action [set an alarm, change switch configuration, disable one or more outputs, power off a portion of the switch, change a state of a general purpose (digital / analog) output, etc]
  • the analog crosspoint switch is adapted to take one or more actions in response to detecting the one or more analog input signal conditions, the one more actions selected from a list consisting of setting an alarm, sending an alarm signal, changing a configuration of the analog crosspoint switch, disabling an output, powering off a portion of the analog crosspoint switch, powering on a portion of the analog crosspoint switch, and control a general purpose output of the analog crosspoint switch.
  • a system for monitoring a power roller of a conveyor in an industrial environment comprising;
  • a plurality of sensors disposed to sense conditions of the power roller, wherein the sensors produce analog signals representative of the sensed conditions
  • an analog crosspoint switch comprising a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, wherein the sensor produced analog signals connect to a portion of the plurality of inputs; wherein the analog crosspoint switch is configurable to switch a portion of the input analog signals representing sensed conditions of the power roller to a plurality of the outputs.
  • a system for monitoring a fan in a factory setting comprising:
  • a plurality of sensors disposed to sense conditions of the fan in the factory setting, wherein the sensors produce analog signals representative of the sensed conditions
  • an analog crosspoint switch comprising a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, wherein the sensor produced analog signals connect to a portion of the plurality of inputs;
  • analog crosspoint switch is configurable to switch a portion of the input analog signals representing sensed conditions of the fan to a plurality of the outputs.
  • a system for monitoring a turbine in a power generation environment comprising:
  • an analog crosspoint switch comprising a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs, wherein the sensor produced analog signals connect to a portion of the plurality of inputs;
  • analog crosspoint switch is configurable to switch a portion of the input analog signals representing sensed conditions of the turbine to a plurality of the outputs.
  • methods and systems of data collection in an industrial environment may include a plurality of industrial condition sensing and acquisition modules that may include at least one programmable logic component per module that may control a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of its module.
  • the programmable logic components on each of the modules may be displosed on a condition sensing module.
  • the programmable logic components on each of the modules may be interconnected by a communication bus, such as a dedicated logic bus, that may include data and control channels.
  • the dedicated logic bus may extend logically and/or physically to other programmable logic components on other sensing and acquisition modules.
  • the programmable logic components may be programmed via the communication bus or dedicated interconnection bus, via a dedicated programming portion of the dedicated communication bus or interconnection bus, via a program that is passed between programmable logic components, sensing and acquisition modules, or whole systems.
  • a programmable logic component for use in an industrial environment data sensing and acquisition system may be a Complex Programmable Logic Device, an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, microcontrollers, field programmable arrays (FPGAs), and combinations thereof.
  • a programmable logic component in an industrial data collection environment may perform control functions associated with data collection.
  • Control examples include power control of analog channels, sensors, analog receivers, analog switches, sensors, multiplexors, portions of logic modules (e.g., a logic board, system and the like) on which the programmable logic component is disposed, a sleep mode of the programmable logic component, a self-power-up/down, self-sleep/wake up, and other functions of he programmable logic component, the like.
  • Control functions, such as these and others may be performed in coordination with control and operational functions of other programmable logic components, such as other components on a single data collection module and components on other such modules.
  • a programmable logic component may provide generation of a voltage reference, such as a precise voltage reference for input signal condition detection, a sensor, an analog to digital convertor disposed on the module, and the like.
  • a programmable logic component may generate, set, reset, adjust, calibrate, or otherwise determine the voltage of the reference, it's tolerance, and the like.
  • Other functions of a programmable logic component may include enabling a digital phase lock loop to facilitate tracking slowly transitioning input signals, and further to facilitate detecting the phase of such signals.
  • Relative phase detection may also be implemented, including phase relative to trigger signals, other analog inputs, such as from a corresponding sensor on the module, on-board references (e.g., on-board timers), and the like.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to perform input signal peak voltage detection and control input signal circuitry, such as to implement auto-scaling of the input to an operating voltage range of the input. Other functions that may be programmed into a programmable logic component may include determining an appropriate sampling frequency for sampling inputs independently of their operating frequencies.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to detect a maximum frequency among a plurality of input signals and set a sampling frequency for each of the input signals that is greater than the detected maximum frequency.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to control a sampling of a sensor on the module.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to configure a multiplexer by specifying to the multipleser a mapping of input to output.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to configure and control data routing components, such as multiplexers, crosspoint switches, analog to digital converters, and the like, to implement a data collection template for the industrial environment.
  • a smart band data collection template may be included in a program for a programmable logic component.
  • an algorithm that interprets a data collection template to configure and control data routing resources in the industrial environment may be include in the program.
  • one or more programmable logic components in an industrial environment may be programmed to perform smart-band signal analysis and testing. Results of such analysis and testing may include triggering smart band data collection actions, that may include reconfiguring one or more data routing resources in the industrial environment.
  • a programmable logic component may be configured to perform a portion of smart band analysis, such as collection and validation of signal activity from one or more sensors that may be local to the programmable logic component. Smart band signal analysis results from a plurality of programmable logic components may be further processed by other programmable logic components, servers, machine learning systems, and the like to determine compliance with a smart band.
  • one or more programmable logic components in an industrial environment may be programmed to control data routing resources and sensors for outcomes, such as reducing power consumption (e.g., powering on/off resources as needed), implement security in the industrial environment by managing user authentication, and the like.
  • certain data routing resources such as multiplexers and the like, may be configured to support certain input signal types.
  • a programmable logic component may configure the resources based on the type of signals to be routed to the resources.
  • the programmable logic component may facilitate coordination of sensor and data routing resource signal type matching by indicating to a configurable sensor a protocol or signal type to present to the routing resource.
  • a programmable logic component may facilitate detecting a protocol of a signal being input to a data routing resource, such as an analog crosspoint switch and the like. Based on the detected protocol, the programmable logic component may configure routing resources to facilitate support and efficient processing of the protocol.
  • a programmable logic component configured as a data collection module in an industrial environment may include an algorithm for implementing an intelligent sensor interface specification, such as IEEE1451.2 intelligent sensor interface specification.
  • modules may perform operational functions independently based on a program installed in one or more programmable logic components associated with each module.
  • Two modules may be constructed with substantially identical physical components, but may perform different functions in the industrial environment based on the program(s) loaded into programmable logic component(s) on the modules. In this way, even if one module were to experience a fault, or be powered down, other modules may continue to perform their functions due at least in part to each having its own programmable logic component(s).
  • configuring a plurality of programmable logic components distributed across a plurality of data collection modules in an industrial environment may facilitate scalability in terms of conditions in the environment that may be sensed, number of data routing options for routing sensed data throughout the industrial environment, types of conditions that may be sensed, computing capability in the environment, and the like.
  • a programmable logic controller-configured data collection and routing system may facilitate validation of external systems for use as storage nodes, such as for a distributed ledger, and the like.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to perform validation of a protocol for communicating with such an external system, such as an external storage node.
  • programming of programmable logic components may be performed to accommodate a range of data sensing, collection and configuration differences.
  • reprogramming may be performed on one or more components when adding and/or when removing sensors, when changing sensor types, when changing sensor configurations or settings, when changing data storage configurations, when embedding smart band data collection template(s) into device programs, when adding and/or removing data collection modules (e.g., scaling a system), when a lower cost device is used that may limit functionality or resources over a higher costs device, and the like.
  • a programmable logic component may be programmed to propagate programs for other programmable components via a dedicated programmable logic device programming channel, via a daisy chain programming architecture, via a mesh of programmable logic components, via a hub-and-spoke architecture of interconnected components, via a ring configuration (e.g., using a communication token, and the like).
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising distributed programmable logic devices connected by a dedicated control bus may be deployed with drilling machines in an oil and gas harvesting environment, such as an oil and/or gas field.
  • a drilling machine has many active portions that may be operated, monitored, and adjusted during a drilling operation.
  • Sensors to monitor a crown block may be physically isolated from sensors for monitoring a blowout preventer and the like.
  • programmable logic components such as Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs) may be distributed throughout the drilling machine.
  • CPLDs Complex Programmable Logic Devices
  • each CPLD may be configured with a program to facilitate operation of a limited set of sensors
  • at least portions of the CPLDs may be connected by a dedicated bus for facilitating coordination of sensor control, operation and use.
  • a set of sensors may be disposed proximal to a mud pump or the like to monitor flow, density, mud tank levels, and the like.
  • One or more CPLDs may be deployed with each sensor (or a group of sensors) to operate the sensors and sensor signal routing and collection resources.
  • the CPLDs in this mud pump group may be interconnected by a dedicated control bus to facilitate coordination of sensor and data collection resource control and the like.
  • This dedicated bus may extend physically and/or logically beyond the mud pump control portion of the drill machine so that CPLDs of other portions (e.g., the crown block and the like) may coordinate data collection and related activity through portions of the drilling machine.
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising distributed programmable logic devices connected by a dedicated control bus may be deployed with compressors in an oil and gas harvesting environment, such as an oil and/or gas field.
  • Compressors are used in the oil and gas industry for compressing a variety of gases and purposes include flash gas, gas lift, reinjection, boosting, vapor-recovery, casing head and the like. Collecting data from sensors for these different compressor functions may require substantively different control regimes.
  • Distributing CPLDs programmed with different control regimes is an approach that may accommodate these diverse data collection requirements.
  • One or more CPLDs may be disposed with sets of sensors for the different compressor functions.
  • a dedicated control bus may be used to facilitate coordination of control and/or programming of CPLDs in and across compressor instances.
  • a CPLD may be configured to manage a data collection infrastructure for sensors disposed to collect compressor- related conditions for flash gas compression;
  • a second CPLD or group of CPLDs may be configured to manage a data collection infrastructure for sensors disposed to collect compressor related conditions for vapor-recovery gas compression.
  • These groups of CPLDs may operate control programs
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising distributed programmable logic devices connected by a dedicated control bus may be deployed in a refinery with turbines for oil and gas production, such as with modular impulse steam turbines.
  • a system for collection of data from impulse steam turbines may be configured with a plurality of condition sensing and collection modules adapted for specific functions of an impulse steam turbine. Distributing CPLDs along with these modules can facilitate adaptable data collection to suit individual installations.
  • blade conditions such as tip rotational rate, temperature rise of the blades, impulse pressure, blade acceleration rate, and the like may be captured in data collection modules configured with sensors for sensing these conditions.
  • modules may be configured to collect data associated with valves (e.g., in a multi-valve configuration, one or more modules may be configured for each valve or for a set of valves), turbine exhaust (e.g., radial exhaust data collection may be configured differently than axial exhaust data collection), turbine speed sensing may be configured differently for fixed versus variable speed implementations, and the like.
  • impulse gas turbine systems may be installed with other systems, such as combined cycle systems, cogeneration systems, solar power generation systems, wind power generation systems, hydropower generation systems, and the like. Data collection requirements for these installations may also vary.
  • a CPLD-based modular data collection system that uses a dedicated interconnection bus for the CPLDs may facilitate programming and/or reprogramming of each module directly in-place without having to shut down or physically access each module.
  • An exemplary data collection module 7200 may comprise one or more CPLDs 7206 for controlling one or more data collection system resources, such as sensors 7202 and the like.
  • Other data collection resources that a CPLD may control may include crosspoint switches, multiplexers, data converters, and the like.
  • CPLDs on a module may be interconnected by a bus, such as a dedicated logic bus 7204 that may extend beyond a data collection module to CPLDs on other data collection modules.
  • Data collection modules such as module 7200 may be configured in the environment, such as on an industrial machine 7208 (e.g., an impulse gas turbine) and/or 7210 (e.g., a co-generation system), and the like. Control and/or configuration of the CPLDs may be handled by a controller 7212 in the environment. Data collection and routing resources and interconnection (not shown) may also be configured within and among data collection modules 7200 as well as between and among industrial machines 7208 and 7210, and/or with external systems, such as Internet portals, data analysis servers, and the like to facilitate data collection, routing, storage, analysis and the like. [00518] 1. A system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising:
  • the at least one programmable logic component disposed on each of the plurality of modules, the at least one programmable logic component controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module on which it is disposed; and a communication bus that is dedicated to interconnecting the at least one programmable logic component disposed on at least one of the plurality of modules, wherein the communication bus extends to other programmable logic components on other sensing and acquisition modules.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises at least on power control function selected from a list consisting of controlling power of a sensor, a multiplexer, a portion of the module, and controlling sleep mode of the programmable logic component.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises providing a voltage reference to at least one of a sensor and an analog to digital converter disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises detecting relative phase of at least two analog signals derived from at least two sensors disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises controlling sampling of data provided by at least one sensor disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises detecting a peak voltage of a signal provided by a sensor disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises configuring at least one multiplexer disposed on the module by specifying to the multiplexer a mapping of at least one input and one output.
  • a system for data collection in an industrial environment comprising:
  • At least one programmable logic component disposed on a condition sensing module, the at least one programmable logic component controlling a portion of the condition sensing module on which it is disposed; and a communication bus through which a plurality of programmable logic components facilitate control of the system, wherein the communication bus extends to other programmable logic components on other condition sensing modules.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises at least on power control function selected from a list consisting of controlling power of a sensor, a multiplexer, a portion of the module, and controlling sleep mode of the programmable logic component.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises providing a voltage reference to at least one of a sensor and an analog to digital converter disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises detecting relative phase of at least two analog signals derived from at least two sensors disposed on the module.
  • controlling a portion of the sensing and acquisition functionality of a module comprises controlling sampling of data provided by at least one sensor disposed on the module.
  • a method of data collection in an industrial environment comprising: disposing at least one programmable logic component on each of a plurality of industrial environment condition sensing modules;
  • a communication bus that is dedicated to interconnecting a plurality of programmable logic components, wherein the communication bus extends to other programmable logic components on other modules of the plurality of industrial environment condition sensing modules.

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Selon l'invention, un système de collecte de données donné à titre d'exemple dans un environnement industriel comprend un collecteur de données en communication avec un certain nombre de canaux d'entrée permettant d'acquérir des données collectées. Le système comprend une mémoire de données qui stocke les données collectées sous la forme d'un nombre d'ensembles de données. Le système comprend un moteur de marché de données auto-organisé qui reçoit les ensembles de données et qui est organisé d'après l'apprentissage d'une auto-organisation de marché avec un ensemble d'apprentissage, ainsi que d'après une rétroaction de mesures de succès sur le marché par rapport aux ensembles de données.
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