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Predictive maintenance sensors that hear failure coming
A bearing rarely fails on the day it dies. It hums a little louder for weeks first — a rising vibration signature nobody standing next to it can feel. Wireless sensors on pumps, motors, and HVAC pick up that drift, and Kilo turns it into a work order instead of a breakdown.
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Failure announces itself — quietly
Worn bearings, misalignment, cavitation: each one raises vibration and temperature long before the machine stops. Without a sensor listening, the first audible symptom is usually the last one.
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Breakdowns pick the worst moment
The circulation pump doesn’t fail on a quiet Tuesday — it fails during the cold snap, the production run, the weekend. Reactive repair means overtime rates, expedited parts, and everything downstream standing still.
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Fixed schedules service the wrong machines
Calendar-based maintenance strips down healthy equipment while the actually degrading unit waits its turn. You pay for interventions the machine didn’t need and still get surprised by the one it did.
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How predictive maintenance sensors work with Kilo
Stick a sensor on every rotating asset
Battery-powered LoRaWAN or mioty vibration and temperature sensors mount magnetically on pumps, motors, fans, and compressors — running for years, with one gateway covering the whole plant.
Watch the trend, not the snapshot
Dashboards chart each machine’s vibration and temperature history, so IoT predictive analytics starts with the basics done right: a baseline per asset and a visible drift away from it.
Turn drift into a work order
Rules watch for readings climbing out of the normal band and raise an alarm weeks before failure — escalating by push, SMS, or email until someone schedules the fix. Rules can also trigger commands to connected equipment.
Hardware, ready to magnet on
Source vibration and temperature sensors plus gateways from the Kilo Electronics store — and have us pre-configure them, so each sensor arrives named after its machine and trending from day one. No IoT team required.
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The platform features behind predictive maintenance
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Predictive maintenance FAQ
Which machines are worth putting sensors on?
Anything that rotates and hurts when it stops: pumps, motors, fans, compressors, and HVAC units. Battery-powered sensors mount in minutes, so the practical rule is simple — if a failure would cost more than a sensor, monitor it.
How early can degradation be detected?
Mechanical faults like bearing wear or misalignment typically raise vibration levels over weeks before functional failure. A rule watching each machine’s trend against its own baseline flags that drift as soon as it leaves the normal band.
Do I need to wire sensors into my machines or PLCs?
No. The sensors are battery-powered, mount magnetically or with adhesive, and send readings over LoRaWAN or mioty — one gateway covers the site. Existing instrumentation that speaks MQTT can feed the same dashboards.
What happens when a machine starts drifting?
The alarm walks an escalation chain: the technician first, then the maintenance manager — by push, SMS, or email, with the Critical Alerts app for machines that can’t wait for morning. The alarm stays open until someone resolves it.
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Fix it on your schedule, not the machine’s
Start free with 5 devices, or book a call and we’ll scope the rollout — vibration sensors, baselines, rules, and escalation chains.