Deployment · wired

Daisy-chain the edge. Own every revolution.

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Conceptual architecture comparison. Validate sampling, protocol, safety, lifecycle, and cloud requirements against the engineered configuration.

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Official ecosystem hardware

Backed 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

What the cable buys you

Full-rate, uninterrupted signal and deterministic control — the deployment for critical rotating assets.

24-bit / 50 kS·s⁻¹

Per-channel IEPE acquisition — bearing energy visible down to ~12 RPM.

< 1 s

Local reaction on relays, tower lights and switches. No cloud round trip.

10× faster install

EtherCAT daisy-chains machine to machine on one Ethernet cable.

Continuous

Uninterrupted streaming and logging, not duty-cycled snapshots.

The wired signal chain

From accelerometer to plant system, on hardware you own.

IEPE sensors

Industrial accelerometers, including extreme-temperature variants from −270 °C to +800 °C.

24-bit DAQ card

One acquisition channel per sensor — the reason wired costs more per point, and why it sees more.

EtherCAT backbone

Sub-microsecond Distributed Clock sync, up to 65,535 nodes, daisy-chained across machines.

Beckhoff IPC

Linux host running alarms, DSP, AI and egress — plus FSoE 'Black Channel' SIL 3 safety when required.

Let the AI find it. Then prove it yourself with the raw data.

The autoencoder watches continuously and flags the anomaly; the post-processing suite is how you diagnose it — on months of full-rate 24-bit captures.

Anomaly log showing the Machine Stress Index trend crossing watch, elevated and critical thresholds on a wired EtherCAT node, with component wear location analysis — Anomaly log on the edge HMI — the Stress Index climbs through watch and elevated bands. When it crosses Danger, physical I/O has already reacted.

Continuous 24-bit streaming means months of full-rate captures are on the node — compression-first storage keeps the evidence ready when the AI points at it.

Train on full-rate data

The autoencoder learns each machine's normal from continuous 24-bit / 50 kS·s⁻¹ streams — more data, better model, no expert spectra setup.

AI flags it, I/O reacts

Stress Index climbs through Watch → Warning → Danger. Relays, tower lights and switches respond locally in under a second — no cloud round trip.

Then you investigate

Open the full-rate captures around the event and run the post-processing that answers why — months of history, still on the node.

Post-processing toolkit — on demand, on the recorded data

FFT spectrum
harmonics, BPFO / BPFI lines
STFT waterfall
how the spectrum evolved
Power spectral density
broadband energy
Demodulation
envelope, early bearing defects
Cepstrum
sideband families, gear mesh
Spectral kurtosis
where the impulsiveness lives
Time domain
the raw waveform itself

Six capabilities on a wired host

Core services ship on every node. DSP and AI are add-ons that trade sensor capacity for intelligence.

Core

Metrics & alarms

RMS, Peak and Kurtosis computed continuously against ISO 10816-3 bands, driving physical outputs in under a second.

Add-on

High-speed DSP

Full-rate FFT, STFT waterfalls, power density, envelope demodulation, cepstrum and spectral kurtosis on raw 24-bit captures.

Add-on

Edge AI

An autoencoder learns each machine's normal and returns a 0–100 Machine Stress Index — trained and scored on the IPC itself.

Core

Storage & egress

Local time-series database per node. Buffers through outages, then forwards over OPC UA, MQTT, Modbus TCP or HTTPS.

Core

HMI & operations

HTTPS web HMI with Admin/Operator RBAC, edge health, live logs, and offline update with one-click rollback.

Optional

Fleet dashboards

Optional cloud aggregation across sites. Switch it off and the edge keeps running.

Wired capacity — CX9240 to C6030

One wired 24-bit channel costs roughly two wireless sensors' worth of compute. Each add-on trims capacity, not features.

Sensor capacity per IPC — each add-on costs 20% of it

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

Wired IEPE sensor capacity per Beckhoff IPC
IPC	Metrics only	DSP + AI	Role
CX9240	24	14	Compact DIN-rail embedded PC
C6015	48	29	Ultra-compact industrial PC
C6025	72	43	Modular industrial PC
C6030	96	57	High-performance industrial PC

Wired channels need a 24-bit / 50 kS·s⁻¹ acquisition card each — but EtherCAT daisy-chaining usually takes most of that back in cabling and labour.

No cabling route to the asset? Compare the wireless deployment — same edge stack, duty-cycled capture.

Ready to size a wired fleet? Open the wired configurator.