Companies join forces to advance wireless monitoring systems

Wireless industrial monitoring systems provider Ackcio announced this month that it has joined forces with US-based global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and cloud technology company sensemetrics.

This alignment, Ackcio believes, supports its goal of providing advanced data analytics and visualisation services on top of the sensor data that is gathered from its wireless monitoring systems.

On the other hand, sensemetrics is focused on transforming sensor data into real-time business intelligence, to automate data management and analytics for mutual customers who are automating geotechnical and structural instrumentation in underground and surface mining, as well as in infrastructure markets.

The alignment between the two companies accelerates digital transformation for businesses in these sectors with an integrated solution that bundles sensemetrics’ software-driven productivity tools and real-time data insights, with Ackcio’s proven wireless monitoring offerings.

The combined solution gives organisations a powerful way to not only automate the collection of distributed and condition-monitoring data, but to also manage and analyse it using sensemetrics’ software, with the aim to mitigate risk, reduce environmental impact, and improve safety management programmes.

“From tunnel collapses, to dam breaches, infrastructure damage and financial loss, far too many tragedies have occurred,” Ackcio co-founder and CEO Nimantha Baranasuriya says.

“We share a common mission with sensemetrics around preventing these incidents, and we welcome the opportunity to combine our technological strengths to bring automated monitoring to our mutual customers to meaningfully mitigate risk for our clients.”

One of the biggest advantages that the combined Ackcio-sensemetrics solution addresses is the need for greater flexibility in distributed condition monitoring. This allows for increased customisation when it comes to addressing the best way to reduce risk in each unique environment, sensemetrics CEO Cory Baldwin adds.

He highlights that the company is “extremely honoured” to have the opportunity to work alongside Ackcio to unlock additional value for its mutual customers with new data management and analytics capabilities that truly take digital transformation initiatives to the next level.

Further, offering unmatched access to real-time information and analytics for continuous and complete monitoring for geotechnical, environmental and mining applications, sensemetrics recently introduced a tailored IIoT solution that gives mining companies and their insurers real-time, end-to-end insight on tailings storage facilities.

For Ackcio, the integration with sensemetrics provides the opportunity to deliver a “cutting edge” software platform for its clients to do more with the sensor data gathered by the Ackcio Beam system.

“Our clients have always wanted a modern software solution that could be used in tandem with our wireless monitoring system to provide advanced analytics and visualisation capabilities. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we partnered with sensemetrics, the best industrial monitoring software platform in the industry,” Baranasuriya explains.

Additionally, Ackcio is immensely proud of this partnership, and looks forward to deepening its collaborations with sensemetrics to build novel solutions to advance the “state-of-the-art” in the industry segments it represents.

New features in the sensemetrics platform include native iOS and Android mobile apps for simplified remote sensor management; a revision management system that supports chronology of events over the lifespan of a sensor, along with journalling and property management to unlock seamless data normalisation of calculated metrics; and a remote sensing module with a dashboard display – powered by spatially dense datasets from ground- and satellite-based systems.

Moreover, a plug-and-play solution, the sensemetrics platform relies on state-of-the-art visualisation tools and offers manufacturer-agnostic edge connectivity, and an open application program interface.

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he platform simplifies the complexities traditionally associated with sensor automation and management while reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.