Wireless Vibration Analysis Sensors
Are you ready for a game-changing advancement in vibration monitoring and analysis? Machine Saver, Inc. proudly presents the Airvibe Vibration Sensor – the future of predictive maintenance.
Welcome to the future of wireless vibration monitoring and predictive maintenance.
Machine Saver’s AirVibe is a wireless vibration analysis sensor that provides game-changing solutions for industrial environments. Designed to catch system malfunctions early, AirVibe simplifies monitoring with its wireless capabilities, precision vibration measurements, and advanced connectivity.
Eliminate guesswork, reduce machine downtime, and enhance operational efficiency with the AirVibe.
AirVibe Features: High-Precision Wireless Vibration Monitoring
The AirVibe wireless vibration sensor is packed with advanced features to increase the ease and precision of industrial vibration monitoring.
- Cutting-Edge LoRaWAN Connectivity: AirVibe leverages the latest in LoRaWAN wireless communication technology, transmitting high-resolution time waveform data with unmatched accuracy.
- Extended Battery Life: Unlike other battery-powered vibration sensors, the AirVibe provides 4-8 years of operation, ensuring uninterrupted vibration monitoring and removing the need for constant battery changes.
- Heat-Resistant Design: AirVibe performs reliably in temperatures as high as 105°C, thanks to its innovative battery and module placement design.
- Long-Distance Data Transmission: Our wireless vibration sensor can communicate over distances of 8+ miles. Wherever located, sensors can send data directly to the gateway 9.5 km away in open areas and up to 400m through obstructions, walls, and without line of sight in busy industrial environments.
- Energy Efficiency: The AirVibe is designed for low power consumption with low bit rates and asynchronous communications, extending battery life further and cutting operational costs.
- High Network Capacity: LoRaWAN's multichannel multi-modem transceivers ensure reliability for large industrial setups with a network that has high capacity and scalability.
- Ease of Installation: Compact and star-topology-based systems ensures effortless and cost-effective wireless vibration sensor setup across sites, with no need for power source wiring or constant maintenance.
- Built-in Security: The AirVibe’s network server features AES-128 encryption for secure data transmission, ensuring proprietary data is protected and stays confidential.
- Expandable System: The AirVibe is part of an expanding and mature ecosystem across every part of the IoT value chain. Collaboration through the LoRa Alliance ensures interoperability, compliance, and growth of the LoRaWAN® protocol, allowing scalability for wireless monitoring operations.
Why Choose AirVibe Wireless Vibration Sensors?
Precision Data for In-Depth Monitoring
AirVibe revolutionizes vibration monitoring with high-resolution time waveform data, powered by its cutting-edge LoRaWAN technology. Unlike competing sensors, AirVibe provides detailed insights that allow industrial workers to precisely identify the root causes of machine vibration alarms, whether they stem from misalignment, imbalance, or other hidden issues. With its superior data precision, AirVibe eliminates guesswork and empowers data-driven decision-making to optimize overall machine efficiency.
Cost-Effective Efficiency
AirVibe delivers exceptional performance while keeping operational costs low. With its extended battery life, low power consumption, and seamless installation process, AirVibe ensures you'll save on maintenance, energy, and setup costs over its lifetime. Its ability to eliminate unnecessary operating expenses makes it a smart, long-term investment in improving industrial efficiency and productivity.
Long Battery Life for Uninterrupted Performance
Forget about constant battery replacements—AirVibe’s innovative battery design ensures continuous operation for 4-8 years on a single charge. This long-lasting power sets it apart from traditional sensors that demand frequent maintenance and replacement. AirVibe helps reduce disruptions to your operations, save valuable time, and lower long-term maintenance expenses. With AirVibe, you can focus on your machinery, not your battery life.
Heat Resilience for Extreme Environments
Industrial machinery isn't always running in optimal conditions, which is why AirVibe is engineered to perform in high-temperature environments. With a design that moves the battery and communication modules away from heat sources like bearings, AirVibe can endure temperatures of up to 105°C (221°F) while maintaining exceptional reliability. AirVibe is built to withstand the toughest conditions, ensuring nonstop monitoring even in heavy-duty industrial environments.
Unmatched Connectivity and Scalability
When it comes to connectivity and scalability, AirVibe is in a league of its own. Its advanced LoRaWAN technology supports transmissions over distances of up to 8 miles, with deep penetration capabilities for indoor, outdoor, or even underground installations. This flexible protocol ensures reliable data transmission in both simple and complex industrial setups, offering impressive speed, accuracy, and power efficiency that guarantees data always reaches your central monitoring system. Furthermore, AirVibe’s modular design allows easy scalability, with each LoRaWAN gateway capable of handling up to 40 sensors. Expanding your monitoring system is as simple as adding more sensors through its plug-and-play installation, making future upgrades efficient, cost-effective, and adaptable to growing operational demands.
AirVibe FAQs
Wireless Data Transmission
Yes, and as this is written, we are the only company in the world able to do so adequately over LoRa.
While many LoRa users might think it's impossible to push such a large volume of data over that specific low frequency network—AirVibe's vibration sensor module and transmission and power (LoRa) module work together with the LoRa receiver (gateway) to make it possible.
Why many LoRa users think this is impossible:
Objection:
Waveform/Spectral data with adequate resolution is too dense to pass in one LoRa packet.
Answer:
True, we store the data on our smart sensor, chunk up the data, and transmit it over time with overall data interspersed with analysis data packets (so you're still trending overalls and receiving important alarm updates while the analysis data loads over many pushes).
Many of our competitors don't have adequate accelerometers to capture resolute analysis data, or adequate memory on board their sensor for the store and forward approach and therefore are left thinking you must push this data in a single packet.
Objection:
Even with memory, LoRawan protocol can occasionally miss data packets so you will miss out on critical information when packets are missed and end up with gapped or garbage data.
Answer:
Also true, since our sensing element holds the data needed in memory to have it available so there are no missing packets—if any are missed our algorithm just tells the sensor, via downlink, to retransmit any missing packets.
The data is stored in the sensor's memory until it receives a confirmation from the gateway, via downlink, that your analysis data is safely stored and fully intact.
Objection:
You can't get the adequate resolution in a time that is reasonable to use analysis data.
Answer:
- Most failures that analysts are using for predictive maintenance fail over time. Vibration analysts who do route based analysis are known to take data only once a month! We can do it much faster than that while keeping the analysts from walking around collecting data and doing what they do best, analyzing changes in machine conditions.
- Due to the high customizability of a smart sensor like AirVibe (number of axes, number of samples, filters, waveform time, overall data push time, etc...), some of our analysis partners have found success by streaming lower-resolution time waveform data many times a day. When they have a frequency band change, a downlink message to the smart Airvibe is all it takes to configure new parameters to capture a more resolute waveform that can be. This approach is also taken when overall data goes up. Send a downlink to the sensor that experienced the change to trigger a waveform capture to analyze against the baseline waveforms before the change.
Of course, with any wireless device customizations come with tradeoffs and one must consider the data throughput you need while maintaining an acceptable battery life. Our team of application engineers are standing by to understand your needs and help configure to optimize data quality AND battery life for your application. - The cellular version of AirVibe will also be available soon for customers. If you truly can't wait on the vibration analysts for the monthly or weekly check-in, AND need high-bandwidth, high-speed transfer of waveforms and spectra on-demand from a wireless sensor, please reach out to us for special deals on the alternate version of AirVibe (Q4 2025).
AirVibe uses the LoRaWAN protocol, which employs low-frequency radio waves to penetrate obstructions like walls and metal without requiring direct line of sight.
The LoRaWAN signal can penetrate concrete walls, metal structures, and other industrial barriers, making it effective in complex environments. To date, we have transmitted through 5 ft of concrete flooring, industrial refrigeration walls, and across multiple floors. Typically, we can transmit with 40 sensors to 1 gateway through a 450-yard radius around the gateway with obstructions. With a clear line of sight, one sensor has been tested out to 9.5 km.
AirVibe can transmit data up to 9.5 km in open areas and 411m (450 yards) with obstructions, walls, and without line of sight in busy industrial environments.
Yes, LoRaWAN’s deep penetration capability ensures reliable transmission through metal walls, though signal strength may vary with thickness and material.
Unlike Bluetooth, which has a short range (typically 10 meters) and requires line of sight, AirVibe’s LoRaWAN offers longer range (up to 9.5 km) and obstruction penetration with lower power consumption.
Software
Airvibe integrates with NanoWipom software, which allows users to view vibration data remotely and manage machinery health insights. There are also Machine Saver services add-ons available for remote personal reports based on the analysis data, as well as Machine Learning options for automated machine health reports upon alarms.
Yes, NanoWipom enables remote access to Airvibe data, providing real-time monitoring and historical trends from any location with internet access.
Yes, the software likely offers real-time alerts for vibration anomalies, notifying users via text or email when thresholds are exceeded.
Users can download data through the NanoWipom interface, which typically includes options to export time waveform and analysis data for further review. This data is available for download in many open source formats such as .csv files for example, so you can use the data with existing Walk-Around Data Collection Software for deeper analysis tools.
Machine Saver’s Nanowipom is a progressive web application online that is mobile friendly, but it is not explicitly an app at this time. Many users use the data on their phones as needed.
Installation
Mount the sensor using provided hardware (e.g., screws or adhesive), ensuring a secure connection to the machine surface, and position the battery/communication module away from heat sources.
No, AirVibe is fully wireless, using a battery and LoRaWAN, eliminating the need for power or data wiring during installation.
Yes, instructions may vary by machine type—e.g., mounting on a flat surface for pumps versus a curved area for motors—detailed in the AirVibe User Manual.
Yes, it withstands up to 105°C, but the battery module should be positioned away from heat sources to maintain performance and longevity.
No, the setup is extremely simple and plug-and-play. The sensors ship in “sleep mode,” which, if they stayed dormant, would allow the sensors to have power for 211 years, to be exact. Once you receive the sensors and gateways, you will plug in the gateway and flip its ON switch to give it power. When it awakens, it also wakes up its connected sensors. You ensure they wake up by holding them close by to the gateway and look online to ensure there is data, and then you walk out to the machine to install the sensor (VSM) on the machine bearing and Transmitter Power Module (TPM) somewhere else away from the heat of the machine and environment. Then you are just watching for data!
Time Waveform and Analysis Data
AirVibe delivers high-resolution time waveform data across three axes (X, Y, Z), capturing detailed vibration patterns for analysis.
The data enables root cause analysis, identifying specific issues like bearing wear or gear faults by revealing vibration signatures over time.
It covers a frequency range of 2.0 Hz to 6000 Hz across all axes, suitable for detecting a wide range of machinery vibrations.
Yes, its high-resolution data and AI algorithms can detect bearing and gear failures months before they become critical, aiding predictive maintenance.
The data includes time waveforms, overall vibration levels, and AI-driven insights, offering precise diagnostics for maintenance planning. There are more details specifications in the technical resources part of the Airvibe web page.
Battery Life
The average battery life is 4-8 years under normal conditions, depending on usage and environmental factors.
Mounting away from heat sources can extend battery life up to 10 years, while proximity to high temperatures may reduce it.
A moderate range (e.g., 20°C to 40°C) is optimal; temperatures above 105°C or prolonged heat exposure can shorten battery life.
Yes, Machine Saver's AirVibe system has field-replaceable batteries.
Simply remove the AirVibeTPM from any hazardous area, loosen the 4 captive bolts and remove the lid of the TPM, remove the used D-Cell style battery, and replace (paying attention to the proper polarity) with a new battery.
Higher temperatures accelerate battery degradation, reducing lifespan, while cooler conditions enhance efficiency and longevity.
Technical Resources for Wireless Vibration Monitoring
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