Customer: Leading Finnish industrial machinery company
Scope: Customer wanted to enable remote monitoring of Industrial valves to address rising maintenance costs due to strict SLAs with its end customers.
Solution:
- Sasken was involved in the pre-study phase where three different antenna concept/location were studied, measured, and reported.
- Hardware:
- Electronics: Added BLE module, BT antenna, and additional circuitry to existing BT LUI schematics
- Antenna: BT antenna integrated into circuit board
- Testing: Electronics and functional testing, Antenna testing, EMC/EMI/ESD tests
- Software:
- BT Module Firmware: HART signal, BT Pairing
- Mobile App: iOS /Android
- Cloud Connectivity
- Mobile application connects to customer’s cloud platform backend
- After the mobile application pairs with a Bluetooth device and receives data, the data is uploaded to cloud as soon as possible
Impact:
- Ease of control of valve for the maintenance team
- Remote monitoring enabled easy and early detection of defects
- Better maintenance due to lesser issue resolution time taken by service engineers
