ALTA Wireless Accelerometer - Advanced Vibration Meter - Industrial, 10ft Probe

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Product Description

The ALTA Advanced Vibration Meter is a recipient of the 2023 IoT Evolution Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award for its exceptional innovation. Following its original launch, the meter won Design World magazine’s 2019 Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program (LEAP) Award for the Switches & Sensors category. The awards recognize engineering innovations that increase industrial safety and efficiency.

Install the data-logging meter in 15 minutes and configure the frequency measurement range within 0.4 Hz–4,200 Hz (24 RPM–252,000 RPM) to track a subtly swaying bridge or high-RPM machinery. If a monitored variable exceeds thresholds, the Advanced Vibration Meter issues an alert via text, email, or voice call.

The meter seamlessly provides data for many commercial and industrial applications, including:

• Manufacturing—Monitoring machines, assembly lines, and equipment to help predict wear and failure, maximizing uptime through scheduled maintenance.
• Energy field services—Low-frequency monitoring of motor mounts on crude pumps. Remote monitoring replaces in-field checks, trimming operational expenses while preventing bearing blowouts.
• Field maintenance—Detecting abnormal vibrations (or temperature changes) within a duty cycle that may point to failing components. Plus, remotely monitoring high-RPM brushless motors and smart materials or structures within production facilities.
• Civil engineering—Tracking seismic activity on high-rise structures or oscillation-related stress on critical infrastructure, such as bridges. After-hours monitoring of tower cranes, generators, and other equipment on construction sites. Understanding the loads (and subsequent movement) placed on retaining walls along interstates and other vital infrastructure.
• Freight management—Collecting movement and stress placed on loading docks after being struck by cargo ships or semis. The data helps engineers buttress older installations and shapes new designs.

The meter is available as an enterprise-ready or an industrial-grade model with a 10’ lead. Learn more about enhancing your operational insight with the award-winning Advanced Vibration Meter.

Key Features

• Three-axis measurement:
  - Acceleration root mean square (RMS), Velocity (RMS), Displacement, or Acceleration Peak
  - Frequency
  - Crest Factor
• Measures Duty Cycle and Temperature
• Configurable Frequency Range
• Configurable Hanning filter
• Measure up to 4200 Hz / 252,000 RPM
• Configurable measurement interval as low as 1 second
• Configurable thresholds for critical condition monitoring

Principles of Operation

The ALTA Wireless Advanced Vibration Meter uses an accelerometer to measure a suite of tri-axis vibration data in addition to sensor duty cycle (a percentage of activity) and temperature. It reports this data on a user-configurable time interval or Heartbeat. In addition, the sensor can report the current, max, or average data. These measurements are sent to the gateway, making the data available in iMonnit or another approved data service.

ALTA - Leading Enterprise Grade "Internet of Things" Solutions

ALTA sensors offer 3 to 4 times the range of standard sensor platforms, extending non-line-of-sight reach to an exceptional 1,200+ feet through walls (12-14 walls typical). Using Frequency-hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) also allows ALTA sensors to have better interference immunity from other wireless devices.

Superior power management provides ALTA sensors with almost twice the battery life of Monnit’s standard wireless sensors.

• Coin cell sensors typically last 3+ years.
• AA and Industrial sensors typically last up to 12+ years.

ALTA products employ Monnit's new Encrypt-RF® Security (256-bit Diffie Hellman key exchange and AES-128 CBC encryption for all sensor data messages), so security is maintained at all communication points from sensor to gateway, gateway to software, then back again.

Integrated on-board data storage allows ALTA sensors to store data messages if communication to a wireless gateway is disrupted (power outage, Internet outage, or out of range). Messages that can’t be delivered will be time-stamped and stored in memory (up to the last 3100 messages) until communication with the gateway is restored, at which point the messages will all be transmitted.

Over-the-air updates allow ALTA products to be updated remotely if new fixes or features become available.

Data Display

What's in the box?

• Wireless Sensor 
• Mounting Hardware 
• 3V Industrial Battery (Pre-Installed) 
• SMA Antenna

Specifications

Documentation

ALTA Wireless Accelerometer - Advanced Vibration Meter - Datasheet