Edge Solutions

The ITM Edge Platform — From Node to Decision

“Analytics at every altitude: on the node, at the edge, and in the cloud — most vendors give you one.”

Five layers turn wireless sensors into decisions. Generic IoT vendors move raw data; ITM moves interpretation.

Connectivity — gateways, routers and device management

A connector architecture diagram with ITM Connect at the centre — exchanging data with wireless sensor nodes, NI cRIO controllers, iTestSystem with NI cDAQ and a Binsfeld TT50 torque collar on the left, and with Modbus, EtherNet/IP, InfluxDB, MQTT services, AWS IoT and REST web services on the right

“Every node onboarded, secured, buffered, and speaking plant language.”

  • One gateway aggregates the whole mesh — provisioning, security, and device management handled by the platform, not the customer’s IT team.
  • Data buffering plus over-the-air updates: no site visit for firmware, no data loss on network hiccups.
  • Hybrid by design — wired NI cDAQ/cRIO channels join wireless nodes in one unified system.

Scope: Wireless IoT Gateway + Wireless Routers; MQTT, OPC UA, HTTPS/REST, Modbus, OSIsoft PI; wireless, wired, or hybrid architectures.

Every Packaged Solution ships on this backbone.

Analytics — FFT, anomaly detection and failure forecasting

An iTestSystem vibration spectrum of engine vibration, 0 to 1000 Hz against g RMS. A 0.206 g peak at 23.2 Hz — 1392 rpm — is called out as the fundamental, with its 2×, 3×, 4× and 23× orders labelled, and a note that 17 of 21 significant peaks fall on integer orders of that fundamental

“Analytics at every altitude: on the node, at the edge, and in the cloud — most vendors give you one.”

  • On the node: processed features at the source — vibration band KPIs, interrupt-triggered capture — so batteries last and data means something.
  • At the edge: FFT, filtering, thresholds, and event classification on the on-site compute — answers in seconds, even offline.
  • In the cloud: anomaly detection, failure forecasting, and AI/ML (AWS) trained on ITM’s measurement heritage.
  • Generic IoT vendors move raw data; ITM moves interpretation — built on 20+ years of knowing what the signal means.

Scope: FFT & filtering; anomaly detection on strain trends; event classification; failure forecasting & adaptive thresholds; iTestSystem Automated Analytics + AWS.

The same analytics engine behind FMS fouling indexes, SFD effectiveness scores, and BOLT inventory.

Insights — dashboards, KPIs & alarms

A Grafana dashboard titled Dynamic Building Loading — Second-Floor Support Column: stat tiles reading live load 206 lbs, peak 1,118 lbs, mean 312 lbs and dynamic range 1,152 lbs, above a five-day trend chart where load climbs from a zero baseline to about 1,100 lbs each working day against an 800 lb threshold line

“Users see the measurement that matters against a threshold — not raw data. Decisions, on one screen.”

  • Role-specific views: operator dashboards, engineering detail, management summaries.
  • KPIs, trend charts, and alarm notifications delivered as a web app over secured VPN.
  • Grafana-based: familiar, brandable, and fast to extend.

Scope: Operator/engineering/management tiers; KPI & trend visualization; alarm delivery; contextual reporting.

The dashboard is what the customer shows their boss.

Compute — the on-site brain

A blueprint-style engineering drawing titled Edge Solutions by ITM: Compute Options, showing three on-site compute options side by side — an NI cRIO-9045 controller with I/O modules, an industrial PC, and a touch panel PC — dimensioned in millimetres

“Analytics, dashboards, and node management in one industrial box.”

  • Runs the analytics on site — insight keeps flowing when the internet doesn’t.
  • Standalone unit or embedded inside the Wireless IoT Gateway enclosure.
  • Compresses high-speed data at the source: ship answers upstream, not terabytes.

Scope: Industrial-PC or Raspberry-Pi-class; runs the analytics, the dashboards and ITM Connect; plant network or cloud (AWS); outputs Modbus, alarms, dashboards, historians.

The conduit between the gateways and every dashboard a customer sees.

ITM Connect — on-site configuration web app

The ITM Connect web app on its torque monitoring dashboard — a left nav of Dashboard, Tag Manager, Alarms, Apps and Settings beside tiles for total power, highest torque, shaft speed and devices online, above per-channel torque gauges for CH1 and CH2

“The web app that makes the customer self-sufficient — configure, monitor, and route data on site.”

  • Configure Edge Nodes and their inputs from a browser — no ITM site visit, no command line.
  • Node-health monitoring at a glance: batteries, signal, last report, across the whole mesh.
  • Customer-configurable Modbus data and alarm outputs — plant integration without a project.

Scope: ITM web app on the on-site compute; configures nodes, inputs, sampling, alarms; monitors node health & network status; hosts generic + Packaged Solution dashboards.

Standard on every on-site compute deployment.

Next step: see what runs on it.

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