Amazon Monitron concepts - Amazon Monitron

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Amazon Monitron concepts

An Amazon Monitron implementation is structured in the following way:

PROJECT → SITE → ASSET → SENSOR → POSITION

The following table explains the Amazon Monitron concepts and terminology you need to know to get started with Amazon Monitron:

Concept name Concept definition Key facts Common users

Project

  • Where you set up the gateways, assets, and sensors used by Amazon Monitron

  • Captures details of Amazon Monitron detected machine abnormalities that can lead to equipment failure

  • IT administrators/managers

Site

  • A collection of assets, gateways, and sensors that share a purpose

  • Used to organize projects to make them easier to manage

  • Helpful for organization if your project has a large pool of assets, gateways, and sensors

  • Can be used to control access and permissions

  • Can create up to 50 sites within a project and add up to 100 assets and 200 gateways to each site

  • Must be a project-level admin user to add a site to a project

  • Can be configured using both the mobile and web app

  • IT administrators/managers

  • Reliability managers

Gateway

  • Wi-Fi or Ethernet devices that transfer the data collected by Amazon Monitron senors to the AWS Cloud.

  • Helpful for keeping track of whether sensor data is being correctly transferred to the Cloud.

  • Must be commissioned using the mobile app

  • Reliability managers

  • Technicians

Asset

  • The pieces of equipment on your factory floor

  • Can be:

    • individual machines

    • sections of a large piece of equipment

    • part of an industrial process

    • any element of your manufacturing model

  • Basis for viewing the health of your machines

  • Amazon Monitron sensors are paired to assets and their parts

  • Can place sensors on up to 20 positions on an asset

  • Can be configured using both mobile and web app

  • Reliability managers

  • Technicians

Sensor

  • Collects temperature and vibration data from your equipment

  • Amazon Monitron uses the data to detect developing issues

  • Can place sensors on up to 20 positions on each asset

  • Can be assigned a machine class corresponding to the machine part it's placed on

  • Can be configured using mobile app only

  • Technicians

  • Reliability managers

Position

  • The place on the asset where you mount a sensor

  • Important for collecting and analyzing data

  • Can place sensors on up to 20 positions on each asset

  • Positions on the same asset can be assigned different machine classes for a fine-grained view of machine health

Important

If you have complex machinery with more than one potential point of failure, we recommend that you collect data from multiple positions.

  • Technicians

  • Reliability managers