Conveyor belt

Usually a combination of sensors for vibration, temperature and ambient conditions. The edge device for conveyor systems built on Cumulocity contains an accelerometer, gyroscope, thermometer, hygrometer and microphone. In normal operation it sends a data packet of around 200 to 300 kilobytes every hour, while edge processing wakes the device immediately in the event of strong shocks. The Honeywell sensors in the steelworks measure three-axis acceleration, surface temperature, noise level, ambient temperature, ambient pressure and humidity.

It shows which cleaners have failed or are worn before conveying performance suffers. At an aggregates site, an average of 30 to 40 percent of the 60 cleaners were out of service. After edge devices were fitted to 20 particularly problematic cleaners, the maintenance team intervened proactively, and the belt scales showed a 0.6 percent increase in production. At another operation, no cleaner had to be replaced in the first six months.

With sensors that continuously record running times, shocks and wear. At a surface mining operation, six edge devices were actually monitoring the running times and blade wear of new belt cleaners. In doing so, the platform detected a torn belt that would otherwise have become irreparable. Instead of replacing the 100,000-dollar belt and losing 144,000 dollars in production value, a four-hour stoppage to fit clamps was enough.

Using containers that are managed centrally and distributed to all edge devices with a single click. A US building materials manufacturer runs quality applications for detecting bubbles in drywall panels with Docker. Previously, a single expert carried out up to 40 manual deployments a day via the command line. With Portainer, data scientists roll out updates to every camera in the plant at once, role-based access control secures the air-gapped environment, and everything runs on premises.