Extend Machine Longevity and Productivity with Vibration Condition-Based Monitoring

Machines, systems, and equipment can tell you a lot about their health and performance by reporting vibration data through smart sensors. Real-time and trending vibration data can help you predict maintenance needs, prevent downtime, and protect your machinery from potential damage caused by displacement, velocity, and acceleration.

By understanding how vibration affects your critical mechanical equipment through vibration meter data, you can better manage key factors, such as manufacturing tolerances, component contact and interaction, and imbalances in rotating parts.

Valuable data from wireless vibration meters about possible misalignment and deterioration can help you identify emerging issues early, preventing machinery damage.

Be Predictive with Vibration Data

When you proactively monitor machinery and analyze vibration data effectively, you can:

• Take preventive, corrective action before issues escalate into costly and unsafe failures.
• Predict common faults to avoid damage or unexpected downtime.
• Incorporate data analysis into standard operating procedures (SOPs) and predictive, condition-based maintenance and monitoring (CBM).
• Extend the lifespans of machinery and equipment by planning downtime for scheduled maintenance.
• Reduce maintenance costs by preventing expensive emergency repairs

In essence, machinery vibration monitoring helps maintain the health and performance of your valuable assets and processes, leading to cost savings in capital and operational expenses, increased uptime, data-driven actions, and improved safety.

Raise Your Predictive Monitoring Standards

The Monnit ALTA® Advanced Vibration Meter can help you predict the maintenance and optimize the performance of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures. The meter utilizes an accelerometer to measure vibration acceleration, velocity displacement, peak acceleration, frequency, and crest factor on three axes. It also senses and reports the duty cycle (how much of the report interval that vibration was present) and temperature.

The accelerometer works to meet evolving vibration and other condition-monitoring requirements, such as increasing accuracy with reduced noise, as industrial machinery, technologies, and processes advance.

Sustain Industrial Automation and Remote Monitoring

It features a configurable frequency measurement range from 0.4 Hz to 4,200 Hz (24 RPM to 252,000 RPM). Within this range, the meter can capture a broad spectrum of vibration—from the subtle sway of a bridge and seismic impact on a building to identifying abnormalities in high-RPM machinery to tracking baseline deviations of production equipment.

Beyond asset monitoring for predictive maintenance, the meter’s data enables organizations to take proactive, preemptive action and gain deeper insight into operational trends and end-of-life analysis.

Amplify Reliable Long-Range Wireless Communication

The ALTA Advanced Vibration Meter can send data 2,000+ feet and through 18+ walls when connected to an ALTA XL® Wireless Gateway. This industry-leading long-range wireless transmission is non-line-of-sight and features strong immunity to signal interference.

Built on the extensive wireless Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), ALTA and ALTA XL radios transmit signals that quickly hop and spread across rapidly changing radio frequencies.

This ensures data transfer is secure against cyber threats and highly resistant to electromagnetic interference (EMI), physical obstacles, and external wireless radio frequency (RF) sources. Additionally, signals are difficult to intercept because they transmit during very short intervals.

Data collected by the meter is logged and sent to iMonnit—our cloud-based system for sensor configuration and data management. In iMonnit Software, you can set measurement thresholds, monitor trends, and specify who receives instant alerts if vibrations go beyond set levels.

Alerts sent via text, email, push notification, or voice call allow onsite staff to quickly identify and address issues, helping protect machinery, production processes, or the facility.

Better Signal Accuracy Compensation & Less Noise

The meter provides accuracy compensation for signals above the sample rate divided by 4. For example, when measuring a vibration level of 9807 mm/s^2 (1 G) with a sample rate of 800 Hz, the Advanced Vibration Meter will read much closer to 9807 mm/s^2 across the 200–400 Hz frequency range than the previous meter version. It delivers greater accuracy over the entire measurable vibration frequency range and reduces root mean square (RMS) noise.

Low Vibration Amplitude Ranges

The meter features vibration amplitude ranges of 2 G, 4 G, and 8 G, with a maximum range setting of 16 G. The 2 G range mode provides better, more detailed resolution at low vibration levels. When dealing with tiny vibration fluctuations, you’ll have a better chance of identifying and measuring them thanks to the improved resolution.

Crest Factor Range

The Crest Factor Range measurement is 1.41 to 3.95. This range helps determine if clipping occurs (when vibration exceeds the max G range setting), indicated by a crest factor below 1.41.

Data Mode Settings

The Advanced Vibration Meter has Max, Average, and Most Recent Data Modes. Most Recent means you only get a data point that occurred right before the last Heartbeat or reading. The additional Max and Average Data Modes:

• Make it much easier to assess the system or apparatus you’re monitoring for initial setup and configuration.
• They are essential and instrumental for establishing and monitoring baselines. With the Max Data Mode, you can observe how high the vibration reaches when evaluating a new system or machine to set a baseline.
• Then, after this test period and knowing the maximum reading, you’ll understand when vibration is becoming a problem you need to address.
• The Average Data Mode option shows vibrational changes over time based on the measurement interval and the sensor’s Heartbeat.
• Average Data Mode is also helpful when evaluating systems with regularly changing vibration levels.

Power Mode Settings

Along with High-Performance Power Mode, you have Medium and Low options. There's a bit more noise as a tradeoff, but you’ll get longer battery life using Low and Medium Power Modes.

More Control Over Bandwidth

Set the bandwidth up to half the sample rate using the Frequency Range setting, and the meter will ignore frequencies outside this range.

Finish Strong with Smarter Vibration Monitoring

By integrating the ALTA Advanced Vibration Meter into your condition-based maintenance strategy, you’re taking a vital step toward smarter, more predictive operations. With its industry-leading accuracy, long-range communication capabilities, and robust data features, this meter enables you to identify subtle changes before they turn into failures.

Don’t just monitor your machines—understand how they work. With Monnit, you can act early, prevent costly downtime, and keep your equipment running stronger for longer.