Jitterbug is an on-shaft wireless sensor that listens to your rotating equipment from the inside — detecting faults months earlier than route-based vibration programs.
Walk-around vibration routes sample your motors once a month — if you're lucky. Faults develop between visits and go undetected until they become expensive failures. Meanwhile, externally mounted sensors sit on the housing, separated from the bearing by material and geometry that attenuate the earliest fault signatures.
Mount it on the shaft and listen from the source. Jitterbug combines acoustic emission with multi-axis accelerometry directly on the rotating element — capturing fault signatures at the point of origin, 24/7, and transmitting wirelessly to your existing infrastructure via BLE. No wiring. No downtime to install. No signatures lost in translation.
High-frequency AE detection captures sub-surface crack propagation and lubrication breakdown — the earliest indicators of bearing degradation.
3-axis accelerometry on the shaft itself eliminates transfer-path attenuation, delivering cleaner fault frequency signatures at lower energy levels.
Bluetooth Low Energy to a base station or gateway — integrates into your existing SCADA, historian, or CMMS workflow with no new wiring.
Designed for long-term deployment. Rotational energy harvesting means no battery swaps on critical equipment deep in your plant.
Bolt-on shaft mount. No wiring required, no coupling modifications, no alignment concerns, no outage required. Install it during a walk-down.
On-board envelope detection and feature extraction. Jitterbug sends diagnostic-ready data, not raw waveforms, minimizing bandwidth and storage.
We're an engineering firm specializing in electric utility and industrial monitoring solutions. Jitterbug is our flagship condition monitoring product.
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