Predictive
Base + DSP + AIKnow a bearing is failing three weeks before it does.
- Edge AI Machine Stress Index 0–100
- Full FFT, envelope, spectrogram, RPM detection
- Fleet dashboards across sites
Runs on industrial PCs
Own Your Edge.
On Beckhoff hardware you own. No Subscription. No Cloud Lock-In. From threshold alarms to edge AI, on Data with real meaning.
- hardware availability
- 20+ yr
- data ownership
- 100%
- acquisition cost
- One-off
hardware availability
data ownership
acquisition cost
Wired · EtherCAT
Know a bearing is failing three weeks before it does
Autonomous edge AI scores a 0–100 Machine Stress Index from 24-bit, 50 kS/s raw capture — alarms and physical I/O react in sub-seconds, no cloud round-trip.
Northbound on open protocols
Official ecosystem hardwareBacked by Beckhoff, not by us alone
Every SensorDataFabrics node runs on a standard Beckhoff industrial PC — CX9240 to C6030 — with TwinCAT and EtherCAT underneath. If we disappeared tomorrow, your hardware, spares and support contracts would still come from a global automation vendor you can already buy from.
- 20+ yr
- documented long-term IPC availability
- €1.75 bn
- annual revenue, 5,700+ staff worldwide
- 75+
- countries with local Beckhoff support
- 1980
- PC-based control pioneer, still independent
TwinCAT 3 runtimeEtherCAT · 65,535 nodesDistributed Clocks · sub-µs syncFSoE SIL 3 safety optionOff-the-shelf lead times
For plant managers
The Obsolescence-Proof Edge
Sold, versus needed.
Legacy systems
- ~5-year obsolescence cycles
- Proprietary firmware lock-in
- Manual expert configuration per asset
- Vendor-controlled data silos
SensorDataFabrics
- 20+ year hardware availability
- Open PC-based architecture
- Autonomous edge AI that learns the machine
- 100% data ownership, open protocols
Open by design
Nothing proprietary between the sensor and your SCADA
Built on standards you already run.
Three levels of intelligence. One architecture.
DSP and AI are add-on services — switch them on later, step up the IPC, keep the sensors.
Advanced
Base + DSPSee the defect frequency, not just the alarm.
- High-speed raw capture
- On-demand FFT and band-pass filtering
- Auto-detected Frequencies of Interest
Basic
BaseOnly pay for compute the machine actually needs.
- RMS, Peak, Kurtosis vs. ISO 10816-3 thresholds
- Tower lights and hard-wired outputs
- Northbound egress to SCADA/MES
- CX924029–48 wireless · 14–24 wired
- C601557–96 wireless · 29–48 wired
- C602586–144 wireless · 43–72 wired
- C6030114–192 wireless · 57–96 wired
with DSP + AI metrics only
Preview your configuration costs in 30 seconds
Sensors in — IPC, headroom and one-off cost out. No form, no sales call.
No cabling, battery powered. Raw waveform and DSP, fewer data points.
Intelligence included as standard
DSP (FFT, envelope, spectrogram, band-pass, RPM detection) and AI (autoencoder Machine Stress Index, 0–100, scored locally) are always on — the sizing already accounts for the capacity they use.
| IPC | Wireless | Wired IEPE |
|---|---|---|
| CX9240recommended | 29 | 14 |
| C6015 | 57 | 29 |
| C6025 | 86 | 43 |
| C6030 | 114 | 57 |
Your configuration
CX9240
12 wireless sensors · DSP + AI included — headroom 29 wireless per IPC.
- Per sensor, one-off
- $375
- Whole system, one-off
- $4,500
Wired channels cost more because each one needs a 24-bit / 50 kS/s acquisition card — but EtherCAT daisy-chains machine to machine on a single Ethernet cable, so the cabling cost comes back down. You own it all: the only recurring item is the optional cloud dashboard at $24 / sensor / year ($288/yr here).
Send my configurationSix capabilities. Run only the ones the machine earns.
- 01
Sensors
IEPE · wireless
- 02
Beckhoff IPC
CX9240 → C6030
- 03
Edge services
Alarms · DSP · AI
- 04
Your stack
OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus
Core
Metrics & Alarms
RMS · Peak · Kurtosis → tower lights
Optional
High-Speed DSP
FFT · envelope · spectrogram · RPM
Optional
Edge AI
0–100 Stress Index, scored locally
Core
Storage & Egress
Local DB → OPC UA · MQTT · Modbus
Core
HMI & Ops
Web HMI · RBAC · offline rollback
Optional
Fleet Dashboards
Every site, one Azure view
Named, specific, checkable
| Vendor | Their constraint | SensorDataFabrics |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson AMS | 12-channel CHARM limit | 64 sensors per EtherCAT ring |
| Allen-Bradley | 87-day hardware lead times | Off-the-shelf Beckhoff availability |
| Bently Nevada | Manual expert configuration | Autonomous edge learning |
| Siemens | Cloud-only, high-latency models | Sub-second local reaction |
| Augury / Tractian | Proprietary cloud fees, data silos | 100% data ownership, open protocols |
Wired or wireless — same platform
| Capability | Wired · TwinCAT/EtherCAT | Wireless · LoRaWAN |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time metrics & alarms | ||
| Edge AI stress index | ||
| Raw waveform capture | Continuous, high rate | Duty-cycled, fewer points |
| Deep DSP (FFT, envelope, spectrogram) | Yes, on VibraSens sensors | |
| Physical I/O control | Optional | |
| Cable-free retrofit |
Buy it once. A subscription never stops.
One-off hardware and licence. You own it; it runs without us.
- recurring, edge
- $0
- sensor / yr, cloud
- $24
- per downtime hour
- 6 figures
recurring, edge
sensor / yr, cloud
per downtime hour
- SensorDataFabrics — one-off hardware, then $24 / sensor / year for the optional cloud dashboard.
- Typical monitoring subscription — cheap on day one, never stops.
The subscription passes the one-off purchase in year 3 and keeps climbing. Everything after that — plus the downtime the edge AI catches — is margin you keep. Figures are illustrative; your configuration produces a real number.
Prove it on one machine, at our cost
Send your machine list — you get hardware sizing and a payback estimate back.
Or start with a free single-machine pilot on entry hardware — prove it before you ask for budget.
Questions engineers actually ask us
Does this work with our existing EtherCAT masters?
Yes. SensorDataFabrics runs as a TwinCAT application on Beckhoff IPCs and joins your existing EtherCAT segment; measurement terminals daisy-chain onto the same ring, up to 65,535 nodes with sub-microsecond Distributed Clock synchronisation.
What happens to logging during a plant power outage?
Every edge node keeps its own local database. Logging, alarms and AI scoring continue without the network or the cloud, and buffered data is forwarded northbound once the link returns.
What is the real sample-rate ceiling over LoRaWAN?
Wireless VibraSens sensors do capture raw waveforms and run deep DSP — FFT, envelope and spectrogram — but on a duty-cycled interval with fewer data points per capture than the wired path. For continuous raw streaming and sub-second physical I/O reaction, use the wired EtherCAT variant.
Is this a subscription?
No. The edge system is a one-off hardware and licence purchase that you own outright and that keeps running with no connection to us. The only recurring item is the optional cloud fleet dashboard at $24 per sensor per year.
How slow can a machine turn before you stop seeing anything?
24-bit resolution lets SensorDataFabrics resolve bearing defect energy down to roughly 12 RPM, where 16-bit systems only see their own noise floor.