Augos Sense / Machine & industrial
Machine and equipment monitoring
Know how your equipment is running.
Equipment state, temperature and vibration, measured continuously. Catch a machine heating up or shaking loose before it fails, and get alerted the moment it passes a limit you set.
Augos Sense is wireless IoT sensing for South African sites: battery-powered sensors that measure temperature, humidity, air quality, level, flow, pressure and equipment state, one cloud platform that checks every reading against the limits you set and alerts on WhatsApp, email or SMS, and switches and valves that act on your rules.
Priced per sensor, plus connectivity and the platform, quoted ex VAT
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours, with no wiring to run.
The problem
You find out a machine was failing after it stops.
A bearing runs hot and shakes for days before it seizes, but nobody is watching the motors that are not on a control system. The first sign is usually the breakdown itself.
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Breakdowns that gave warning
Heat and vibration climb for days before a failure, but without a sensor on that motor, the warning goes unseen.
2
Machines off the controls
Older motors, pumps and fans have nothing to read them, so they run unmonitored until they fail.
3
Runtime you cannot see
You cannot tell how long a machine actually ran, or sat idle, so servicing is by the calendar, not by use.
4
A repair with no history
When a machine fails, there is no record of the heat or vibration that led up to it, so it happens again.
The method
One sensor turns a blind spot into a live reading.
Put a sealed, battery-powered sensor on each condition you care about. It reports to one cloud platform, and Augos does the watching, so you only hear about it when something moves.
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Measure it
A wireless sensor on each condition, reporting as often as every minute, on a battery, with no wiring to run.
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Get told
Set the range that matters. The moment a reading passes it, you get a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
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Act on it
Trip an alarm or shut a machine down automatically on a temperature or vibration limit, or send a technician before it seizes.
What we measure
The machine parameters.
Each parameter is a separate sensor, so you deploy only the ones you need and add more anytime.
Equipment state
Running, idle or stopped.
In the knowledge base ›Equipment temperature
Surface or bearing temperature.
In the knowledge base ›Vibration
Vibration signature, for wear and imbalance.
In the knowledge base ›Pressure
Hydraulic or pneumatic pressure.
In the knowledge base ›Flow
Coolant or lubricant flow.
In the knowledge base ›Alerts and thresholds
Set the limits that matter, and hear about it the moment a threshold is exceeded.
Set an upper limit, a lower limit, or both for any sensor here. The instant a reading passes it, the person who can act gets a message, on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
Bearing temperature on one motor against an upper limit
IllustrativeMessage sent
Motor bearing is above its limit
82 °C on day 14, past your 80 °C upper limit.
The climb started a week before the alert: the warning a breakdown usually gives.
Illustrative motor and readings, not a customer. The limit, the recipients and the channel are the ones you set.
Use cases
Where sites put it to work.
Catch a failure early
Bearing temperature and vibration past normal is the earliest warning a motor is on its way out.
Watch the machines no one watches
Put a wireless sensor on any old pump, fan or motor with no controls of its own.
Runtime and duty
Know how long each machine actually runs, so servicing follows real use.
Protect the critical few
Watch your hard-to-replace equipment closely, and get told the moment it steps out of line.
Pumps and motors
Temperature and vibration on rotating equipment, the earliest sign of bearing or alignment trouble.
Compressors and fans
Catch a fan going out of balance or a compressor running hot before it takes the line down.
The hardware
A sensor that mounts on the machine.
A sealed, battery-powered sensor that mounts on a motor, bearing or pipe and reads its temperature, reporting over low-power wireless with nothing wired into your controls. The equipment probe, as the KB specifies it:
- Probe: an equipment probe (DS18B20) for surfaces and bearings.
- Range: -55 to 125 °C, accurate to ±0.5 °C.
- Battery: rechargeable, up to 2 years per charge, configuration dependent.
- Connectivity: cellular, NB-IoT or LoRa.
- Mounting: magnetic and calibration-free.
Customer result
Monitoring built to assure quality, not just uptime.
National food producer
Every minute
Motor health and cold-store temperature, humidity and door state logged every minute, as a tamper-proof digital log for food-safety inspection and export audits. From the Augos case study on a pasteuriser plant.
Read the case study ›Customer result, from the published case study. The basis is stated on the card. All Sense case studies ›
Start small
Start with a single sensor.
No rip-and-replace and no commitment: a single sensor can be live in 48 hours, and you add more once it proves out. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring to run and no calibration to perform.
Augos Sense is priced in three parts: the sensors, priced per sensor by what each one is built to measure; connectivity, a monthly cost per sensor; and the platform, one charge per deployment. Figures on request: we size a quote, ex VAT, to the sensors and sites you need.
Questions
How do the sensors connect?
Wirelessly, over LoRa, NB-IoT or Sigfox, chosen for the coverage and density of your site. There is no wiring to run.
How long do the batteries last?
Years, depending on the sensor and how often it reports: the temperature sensor runs up to about two years on a full charge, configuration dependent. Sensors report at intervals you set, from once a minute to a few times an hour, and need no mains and no cabling.
How fast can we install?
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring and no calibration, so a site electrician or your own team can fit them without downtime. You add more sensors and sites the same way.
What can it alert on, and how?
Set an upper limit, a lower limit or a rate of change on any sensor. The moment one is passed, the right person gets a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
Where does the data go?
Into one cloud platform, hosted in South Africa. Watch it live, set alerts, chart it, or take it out as a download, by API or as an AI-ready export.
How are you priced?
Per sensor, plus connectivity monthly and the platform per deployment, quoted ex VAT. The single-sensor pilot is the standard way in.
Start with a single sensor.
Book a short call. Tell us what you need to watch, and we'll show you the sensor, the alerts and the control working on your own site.