It depends on three factors: whether cabling and power already reach the asset, the budget
behind it, and
what the asset is worth to the line. Wired sensors suit high-value assets where cabling
exists and early
detection matters most. Wireless sensors suit equipment where running cable isn’t practical
or justified.
Flex Reliability from Infinite Uptime’s PlantOS™ lets you mix both across one plant, with
every reading
feeding the same prescription engine.

Piezoelectric accelerometers capture a wider frequency band with a lower noise floor, which
makes them
the standard for critical and hard-to-monitor rotating equipment. MEMS sensors deliver
broadband vibration
data at a fraction of the cost and footprint, which suits the pumps, fans, motors and
gearboxes that make
up most of a plant. PlantOS™ offers both: vSense wired piezoelectric sensors, plus vEdge and
FitMachine
MEMS sensors in wired and wireless versions.

Continuous monitoring suits equipment where a stoppage halts production or where faults can
develop
quickly, such as main mill drives, large fans and critical gearboxes. Periodic health checks
suit
auxiliary and balance-of-plant equipment, where a scheduled reading is enough to catch a
developing fault
in good time. In Flex Reliability, wired sensors stream continuously and wireless sensors
take periodic
readings, so each asset gets the data rate its role justifies.

Use self-powered wireless sensors that need no cabling, batteries or gateways. InfiSense 3XT
harvests
energy from ambient light, connects over built-in cellular, and mounts by magnet without a
specialist.
That makes it practical to cover equipment that has never had a monitoring budget, while
replacing more
than 4 hours of manual inspection rounds per asset per year. Readings arrive as PlantOS™
prescriptions
rather than raw data.

Low-speed machines produce weak, low-frequency vibration signals, so they need a sensor with
high
sensitivity and a low noise floor. The vSense 1XT wired piezoelectric sensor covers
equipment running as
slow as 2 RPM, and its sensing is rated for harsh operating envelopes. That makes it
suitable for ball and
SAG mill drives, heavy gearboxes and other slow, high-load assets.

Yes, with certified sensors. Flex Reliability includes ATEX-certified options at each level
of coverage:
vSense wired piezoelectric sensors for explosive-atmosphere zones, the FitMachine 3XT-Ex
wireless MEMS
sensor with a battery life of 5+ years, and an ATEX-certified version of InfiSense 3XT. This
lets
chemical, oil and gas, and pharma plants extend coverage into hazardous zones without
running new cable.

Yes. Flex Reliability ingests data from existing third-party sensors as it is, and PlantOS™
works
alongside your SCADA, historian and CMMS. There is no rip and replace. Coverage grows from
what you
already own, and new sensors are added only where there’s a gap.

A condition monitoring system shows vibration trends and raises alarms that an analyst still
has to
interpret. Flex Reliability delivers a prescription: the component at fault, the cause, the
corrective
action and its severity. Operators validate each prescription with a digital sign-off, and
those
validations retrain the models across 1,000 plants, so accuracy improves the longer the
system runs.

Together they cover the plant’s full criticality spectrum on one platform. AI
Shields protect flagship production equipment such as kilns, mills and cranes with
equipment-specific AI. Flex Reliability covers the rest of the rotating fleet with wired and
wireless
sensing. Plant Fusion rolls both into one risk model that
drives maintenance,
spares and CAPEX decisions.