Spider DSA User’s Manual
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Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM)
Introduction
Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM) has been developed to remotely monitor
the health of equipment or structures simultaneously. Spider can be located
within a facility connected through a LAN or remotely located with access to
Wired or Wireless (Mobile Data Network) internet. Some of the major examples
of this application include monitoring vibrations on the equipment being
transported, vibrations on bridges and structures close to the rail or roadways or
monitoring the vibrations caused by the rotating windmills on the ground.
Figure 211. RCM Application Scenarios
The type and intensity of these vibrations could potentially cause a multitude of
problems from damaged equipment while being transported to structural
damages to bridge. Continuous monitoring with auto alarms and notifications
would help in keeping track of the health and alert unusual and potentially
catastrophic behavior or the system or the structures.
Crystal Instruments has developed EDM – Remote Containing Monitoring
(RCM) to extend the capabilities of the Dynamic Signal Analysis (DSA) integrated
with Spider platform to achieve reliable results for monitoring remote equipment
and devices.
By using the RCM mode, different Spider modules with any channel count can be
mounted remotely and are connected to a mobile wireless gateway using cellular
data connectivity. A Static Public IP address to this modem would ensure remote
connectivity across the world. Each Spider system can be accessed from the RCM
using the Static Public IP address of this modem. The specially designed RCM
software is equipped to connect with multiple such Spider systems
simultaneously and update essential results from all the Spider modules located
globally. It also can view the live data from any of the Spider systems as needed
and download the recordings from any or all the Spider modules for further
analysis and inferences.
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