Methods and systems for the industrial internet of things

A monitoring system for data collection, the system comprising:

• a data collector including a plurality of sensors each outputting a respective detection signal;
• a data storage structured to store a collector route template for the plurality of sensors, wherein the collector route template comprises a sensor collection routine for defining how the plurality of sensors are coupled to a plurality of input channels;
• a data acquisition and analysis circuit structured to receive detection signals via the plurality of input channels, wherein each of the detection signals has a corresponding detection value, and to evaluate the plurality of detection values with respect to a rule,
• wherein the data collector is configured to modify the sensor collection routine based on the evaluation of the plurality of detection values with respect to the rule.