System and method for continuous machine monitoring at a khz-scale
AssigneeMachinemetrics, Inc.
InventorsBROCK TWEEDIE, LOU ZHANG
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Abstract
A device and a method of monitoring a condition of a machine in real time. The method includes: interfacing an edge device with the machine; requesting a handle from a controller of the machine; querying the machine with an adapter of the edge device for a control data; and acquiring control data from one or more sensors of the machine. The method includes repeating the steps of querying the control data and acquiring the control data after a period of time at a high frequency.
Claims20
A method of monitoring a condition of a machine in real time, the method comprising:
- interfacing an edge device with the machine;
- requesting a handle from a controller of the machine;
- querying the machine with an adapter of the edge device for a control data;
- acquiring control data from one or more sensors of the machine;
- and
- repeating the steps of querying the control data and acquiring the control data after a period of time at a high frequency defined by a sampling rate,
- wherein during an initial connection period the adapter cycles through a set logic of repeating the steps of querying the machine and acquiring the control data to establish the sampling rate.
A method of monitoring a condition of a machine in real time, the method comprising:
- interfacing an edge device with the machine;
- establishing communication between the edge device and the machine;
- activating a machine-based application programming interface (API) with an adapter executed on the edge device;
- acquiring a data thread via selected API commands corresponding to waveform diagnostics data from the machine, wherein the acquiring is conducted at least at a sampling rate in excess of 1 KHz and employs metrics programmatically configured based on a customizable protocol for each type of data;
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- outputting data to the edge device.
A peripheral edge device comprising:
- a machine interface connector;
- a memory module;
- a data acquisition module configured to acquire a data thread via the machine interface connector corresponding to waveform diagnostics data from a machine and convert said waveform diagnostics data to a machine-readable format;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- adapt the data acquisition module to acquire data from a machine via instructions obtained from the memory modules, acquire the machine readable waveform diagnostics data from the configured data acquisition module, alter the machine readable waveform diagnostics in accordance with instructions retrieved from the memory module, and output at least one of the altered and unprocessed machine readable waveform diagnostics data to the memory module,
- wherein the controller is configured to initiate an action in a machine connected via the machine interface connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.