INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

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IMACHINE ACORN SmartNode Platform - the smart wireless industrial automation, condition monitoring, and real-time edge computing solution that fully automates major elements of your industrial operation, giving you highly secure, fully encrypted web based visibility and control from anywhere in the world, anytime.

The ACORN SmartNode platform and solution, can be customised and delivered for a wide array of applications, with proven field experience in the following applications for the Mining, Quarry, Chemical Process, Energy and Mineral/Resource Sectors:

• Remote operations monitoring and asset management;​

• Remote process control and industrial automation, including web based SCADA, HMI and Edge Computers with built-in PLC;

• Remote vehicle and heavy mobile machinery (trucks, loaders, dump trucks, drilling & blasting, tankers) multifunctional IIoT;

• Vehicle and heavy mobile machinery GPS tracking, speed/direction, mission or path planning, oil and fuel levels, ECU integration;

• Vehicle and worker safety systems (Object Detection & Collision Avoidance), vehicle cliff edge detection system;

• Vehicle to process (V2P) and vehicle to everything (V2X) wireless IIoT, with mission critical automation for loading and unloading;

• Remote vehicle payload automation and control, i.e. haulage and dump truck payload volumetric scanning and measurement;

• Wireless gas and leak detection for industrial plants in hazardous areas (HA) or non-hazardous areas (NHA);

• Remote and wireless condition monitoring of fixed plant and equipment (motors, machines, turbines, pumps, boiler, process)

• Covering all bases of the five key elements of condition monitoring, which are:

1. Data collection - using iMachine's innovative wireless IIoT-SmartNode devices and a large array of 3rd party integrations;

2. Data analysis & logic control - using iMachine's large array of algorithms for analysis of failure modes and safety issues;

3. Alert generation - alarms and actions, workers alerted via email, SMS, HMI touchscreen and remote control centre (ROC);

4. Maintenance planning - use data analysis, logic driven reminders, routine and smart maintenance notifications and alerts;

5. Continuous improvement - data driven decisions on plant, site and equipment optimisation, upgrades and debottlenecking;

• Data collection involves gathering information from sensors or monitoring devices. Data analysis software, then analyses the collected data for abnormal patterns. These wireless sensors include:

  • Oil quality and condition analysis;

  • Infrared thermography condition analysis;

  • Acoustic condition analysis;

  • Process condition analysis (analytical, chemical, temperature, flow, level);

  • Vibration condition analysis;​

• Environmental monitoring (weather, humidity, rain, wind speed and direction, dust levels, air quality, stack emissions);

• Remote tank level gauging, pump, valve, actuator and process control;

• Remote IP camera connectivity and monitoring, including AI vision system analysis for safety and security.

• Operator alert systems, including email, SMS and local audible and visual alarming.

Highly secure, fully encrypted, Industrial Internet of Things technology, built with mission critical grade hardware and software, providing a scale-able solution you can trust. Weatherproof, modular and rugged, with options for IEC-Ex certified Hazardous Areas (EEHA) equipment solutions, for safe and reliable monitoring and control, even in the most challenging applications.