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العربية Building vibration monitoring
Building vibration monitoring, from rooftop fans to foundations
A building full of rotating equipment is never truly still — and the question is whether today’s hum is the same as last month’s. Wireless vibration sensors put a number on fans, pumps, and the structure itself, and Kilo shows you the moment that number starts to climb.
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Rooftop equipment shakes itself apart unseen
Exhaust fans, AHUs, and pumps live on roofs and in plant rooms nobody visits. A loosening mount or failing bearing raises vibration for weeks — and announces itself only when tenants hear it, or when it stops.
02
Construction next door raises questions you can’t answer
Piling and excavation start across the street, a tenant reports a crack — and you have no record of what your building experienced or when. Without data, every complaint becomes a dispute of opinions.
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By the time you feel it, it’s expensive
Vibration you can feel in the corridor means energy has been hammering bearings, mounts, and connections for a long time already. The early, cheap-to-fix stage is invisible to humans — but not to sensors.
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How building vibration monitoring works with Kilo
Mount wireless vibration sensors
Battery-powered LoRaWAN or mioty sensors attach to fan housings, pump skids, and structural points of interest. They run for years, and one gateway covers the whole building — roof to basement.
Watch the levels trend
Dashboards chart vibration per machine and location over time, so you compare today against each asset’s own history — and see a loosening mount as a slope, not a surprise.
Alarm when levels climb
Set thresholds once. When a fan or a monitored point exceeds its normal band, the escalation chain notifies the technician, then the manager — by push, SMS, or email — until someone checks it.
Hardware, ready to mount
Source vibration sensors and gateways from the Kilo Electronics store — and have us pre-configure them, so each sensor arrives named after its fan, pump, or mounting point and trending from day one. No IoT team required.
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The platform features behind vibration monitoring
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Building vibration monitoring FAQ
What should I put vibration sensors on?
Start with rotating equipment — rooftop fans, AHUs, pumps, compressors — where rising vibration means wear. Add structural points you want a record for, such as floors or walls near construction activity. Any LoRaWAN, mioty, or MQTT-capable vibration sensor works with Kilo.
Can this replace a structural engineer’s assessment?
No — and it shouldn’t. Kilo gives you continuous readings, trends, and a time-stamped record of vibration events, which is exactly the data an engineer will ask for. Formal structural assessments and any compliance certification remain the job of a qualified professional.
Will I see the effect of nearby construction work?
You will see what your sensors measure: when vibration levels rose, how high, and for how long, at each monitored point. That time-stamped history lets you correlate events with construction activity and have a fact-based conversation instead of a memory-based one.
How do alerts reach the right person?
Every alarm carries an escalation chain: the first tier is notified immediately by push, SMS, or email, and if nobody resolves it, later tiers follow. The Critical Alerts app breaks through a silenced phone.
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Put a number on the hum
Start free with 5 devices, or book a call and we’ll scope the deployment — sensors, gateway, trends, and escalation chains.