A measurable factory floor. Alerts that arrive in time.
DataMagnet is an industrial IoT platform built in Siemens Mendix: it collects data with wireless sensors on the factory floor and outdoors, visualises and analyses it, and sends alerts to mobile, tablet and desktop when a threshold is exceeded.
Build customised IoT and Industry 4.0 applications for your own production site. DataMagnet is based on LoRa WAN technology, which provides full outdoor and indoor coverage across production sites, and commercially available sensors can be installed wirelessly and immediately.
Network
LoRa WAN, outdoors and indoors
Sensors
Commercially available, wireless
Platform
Siemens Mendix, customisable
Challenge
What does it cost when the factory floor doesn't measure?
Condition deviations go unnoticed
If nobody continuously monitors the conditions prescribed for equipment and the production process, a deviation only becomes apparent from its consequences.
Unknown machine condition
If the power consumption, vibration and temperature of machines are not visible, abnormal operation goes without an alert, and maintenance cannot be planned in advance.
Hazards detected too late
If no sensor measures fire, water, smoke and air quality, the alert only comes when someone notices the problem.
Why is today's data collection not enough?
Scattered measurements.
If measurements are not collected in one place, there is no historical record and no way to analyse trends.
Wired sensors.
If every new measuring point needs a cable, even installing one new sensor becomes a separate project, especially outdoors.
Rigid systems.
An off-the-shelf solution measures what it was built for; a new use case requires a long development cycle.
The solution
LoRa WAN Sensor Monitoring
The alert arrives at the threshold, not after the damage.
DataMagnet receives the measurements of wireless sensors over the LoRa WAN network. It collects the data, keeps a historical record, displays it in charts and analyses it. Complex alert rules can be set for the sensor data, the measurements of several sensors can be linked, and when a threshold is exceeded the alert arrives on mobile, tablet and desktop.
What the sensors measure
- Power consumption
- Vibration
- Temperature
- CO2
- Humidity
- Light level
- Liquid level
- Motion
- Opening
- Passage
Alerts and interface: desktop, mobile, tablet
How does DataMagnet work?
Installing the sensors
Commercially available sensors can be installed wirelessly and immediately on the factory floor and outdoors.
Data collection over LoRa WAN
LoRa WAN provides full outdoor and indoor coverage across the production site; the measurements reach the platform over it.
Visualisation
Current sensor data and historical charts on one interface, with multi-level access management.
Alert rules
Complex rules for sensor data, with several sensors linked and organised into sensor groups.
Alerting
Notification to mobile, tablet and desktop when a threshold is exceeded.
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Mit tud a DataMagnet?
01Measurement and data collection
Measured values: power consumption, vibration, temperature, CO2, humidity, light level, liquid level, motion, opening, passage.
Historical record: collecting and storing the measurements.
Analysis: charts and trends from the historical data.
02Alerting
Complex rules: alert rules for the sensor data.
Linked measurements: data from several sensors in one rule.
Sensor groups: sensors can be organised into groups.
03Access and customisation
Desktop, mobile, tablet: the interface and alerts on every device.
Access management: multi-level access.
Custom branding: with the company's own branding.
What can DataMagnet be used for?
Production conditions
Continuous monitoring of the conditions prescribed for equipment and the production process.
Machine lifetime and consumption
Monitoring how equipment is used, its real lifetime and its power consumption.
Preventive maintenance
Planning maintenance, and alerts when machine characteristics become abnormal.
Silos and tanks
Liquid level monitoring, fill levels of silos and tanks, liquid detection.
Motion tracking
Tracking the movement of people and high-value assets.
Working conditions and safety
Measuring working conditions; monitoring fire, water, smoke, air quality and temperature with alerts.
Low-code in practice
How DataMagnet was built
On Mendix, in one-week sprints, together with an industry expert.
- Team
- 2 Mendix developers + 1 industry expert
- Cadence
- One-week sprints, weekly demo
- Completed
- in 8 weeks
01Built on Mendix
DataMagnet was built on the Siemens Mendix low-code platform using a rapid software development method.
02A joint team
Two BlackBelt Mendix developers and an industry expert worked on it.
03One-week sprints
At the end of every week, a demo presented the new prototype. The expert requested new features or changes on the working software and received them the following week.
04Done in 8 weeks
The application was completed in eight weeks.
05Rolled out the same way
We also introduce DataMagnet at the customer using the rapid method. The system can be customised, extended and integrated with existing systems.
Make your factory floor measurable!
Request a demo, and let's look together at which sensors and alerts DataMagnet could start with at your production site.
Contact us
- Phone:
- +36 1 611 0462
- Email:
- info@blackbelt.hu