Predicting and Alerting for Water and Wastewater Pump Failure Risks and Maintenance Requirements: Intelligent Sensors and Software from Asystom
Pumps are critical to the operation of water and wastewater utility networks, from treatment plants to lift stations. But when pumps begin to degrade and experience early failure, the capital repair or investment costs can be a budget “buster”. Most utilities schedule regular on-site field inspection of their pumping and other critical equipment. But manual inspections are costly, time-consuming, and cannot fully detect early signs of equipment problems. Some utilities purchase monitoring sensors from the pump manufacturer, but find it challenging to monitor and predict failure from multiple sensor manufacturers with different software systems that do not leverage Artificial Intelligence or high-resolution sensing technologies.
Asystom is a global smart sensor and software company that is a leader in detecting early signs of failure or repair requirement of rotating equipment, such as pumps, motors, and gears, using high-resolution battery-powered wireless solutions and artificial intelligence software.
Asystom’s technology can detect, capture, and notify users of early signs of equipment anomalies and risks by using 3-axis vibration, ultrasonic, and temperature sensors. The Company’s software solution provides users with real-time and historical data insight visualizations, analytics, reports, and alerts. The monitoring starts with a learning period which is selected on cumulated data from time of installation as simple as a click and drag steps. From the learning phase, Anomaly detector software will evaluate the health condition of the equipment by calculating the anomaly level of the equipment over time. The anomaly level is a complex computation of more than 50 parameters that the AsystomSentinel produces at every measurement. The AsystomAdvisor provides detailed trend analysis on critical parameters across the frequencies ranged covered by the sensors. This includes low frequency VRMS, peak acceleration, ultrasonic range to detect lubrication in bearing/gearbox and early signs of bearing failure, kurtosis, temperature, FFT and even zoom FFT. Through alert automation, the indicator can be configured to generate automated email or text message alerts.
In addition, the solution is designed to work with existing IT and Operating systems, including providing data to SCADA systems. Other key features include a ten year battery life (assuming one hour data reporting intervals) and the ability to communicate over long-distances cost-efficiently over LoRaWAN communication networks.
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