Simplify Your Telemetry Journey
Author: Angus Lay, Monico’s Subject Matter Expert / Mining / Data and Analytics
In today’s fast-paced industrial and mining landscapes, having real-time access to telemetry data is crucial for making informed decisions that drive efficiency, safety, and profitability. As industries evolve and the demand for data-driven insights increases, the need for robust telemetry solutions has never been more evident. At Monico, we understand this necessity and have designed the mCore®SDR gateway and mGuard® MachineWatch™ to simplify and streamline your telemetry journey, enabling you to harness the full potential of your equipment and operations.
The Growing Importance of Telemetry in Modern Industry
Telemetry systems are the backbone of modern industrial and mining operations. By collecting, transmitting, and analysing data from various assets – whether they are stationary industrial machines or mobile mining equipment – telemetry provides actionable insights that can significantly improve operational efficiency, enhance safety, and boost overall profitability.
However, the process of integrating these systems and managing the vast amounts of data they generate can be daunting. The complexity of gathering telemetry data from different equipment types, transmitting it securely, and analysing it in a way that delivers meaningful insights often leaves operators overwhelmed. The journey from raw data collection to actionable intelligence is filled with challenges, from choosing the right communication protocol to selecting the optimal data storage and analysis solutions.
Overcoming Telemetry Challenges with Monico
Where do you start? How do you extract data from your equipment? What’s the best method to offboard the data—satellite, mesh network, or local cellular network? Once the data is offboarded, how should it be stored and analysed to maximize its value? These are critical questions that need answers to determine the best solution for your current and future needs.
Many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) offer telemetry solutions, but they often come with significant limitations and ongoing subscription fees, for you to access your data from your equipment. Typically, OEM systems are designed to work seamlessly with their own equipment but may struggle to integrate with other OEM assets. This presents a challenge in industries like mining, where operations typically involve a mix of equipment from various manufacturers. Managing multiple OEM telemetry solutions across a mixed fleet can be expensive and disjointed, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for optimization.
Monico’s mCore®SDR gateway addresses these challenges head-on. Our solution is OEM-agnostic, eliminating the need for multiple hardware options across mixed fleets. With mCore, you can achieve a unified telemetry system that simplifies data collection, transmission, and analysis, regardless of the equipment’s manufacturer.
Introducing Monico’s mCore®SDR Gateway
The mCore®SDR gateway is engineered to simplify your telemetry journey, offering a robust and flexible solution that meets the diverse needs of modern industries. Unlike OEM solutions that may require extensive customization and integration work, mCore comes preconfigured to send data to wherever you need it—whether that’s an onsite historian, a cloud solution, or specific platforms like Aveva PI, SEEQ, or Canary.
But the mCore®SDR gateway is more than just a data transmission device; it’s a comprehensive solution designed to optimize your entire telemetry process. If you don’t have a specific platform in mind, Monico offers mGuard MachineWatch, which comes preloaded with over 50,000 algorithms. These algorithms work around the clock, monitoring your equipment for precursors to failure modes and potential breakdown events. With dashboards to visualize key operating metrics and an alarm manager to track and simplify the actions generated from your telemetry data, mGuard MachineWatch ensures you stay ahead of potential issues.
Introducing Monico’s mGuard® MachineWatch™
So, what is mGuard MachineWatch? Essentially, it’s Remote Condition Monitoring, specifically designed and developed my Monico for improving maintenance, reliability, performance and operation of mining assets such as haul trucks, shovels, drilling machines and more. What does that mean? mGuard MachineWatch provides an environment for storing the data collected from assets, analysing the data (in real-time), visualizing the data in the form of charts, tables, gauges and more for human consumption and triggering and managing alerts and notifications generated either by OEM system (i.e., fault codes and alarms) or Monico Defined Events (MDEs).
Why is mGuard MachineWatch so unique? It’s not a platform that you have to spend months if not years building out the analytics, screens and alert notification systems. It’s preconfigured, already built by Monico. mGuard MachineWatch, which comes preloaded with over 50,000 algorithms. These algorithms work around the clock, monitoring your equipment for precursors to failure modes and potential breakdown events. With dashboards to visualize key operating metrics and an alarm manager to track and simplify the actions generated from your telemetry data, mGuard MachineWatch ensures you stay ahead of potential issues.
Here’s how Monico’s mCore®SDR and mGuard MachineWatch can simplify your telemetry decision journey:
Seamless Integration
Versatile Connectivity: The mCore®SDR gateway supports multiple communication protocols, making it easy to integrate with existing systems. Whether you’re using Modbus, OPC, Bradley Allen, or custom protocols, mCore®SDR ensures smooth and consistent data flow.
Plug-and-Play: Designed with user convenience in mind, the mCore®SDR gateway offers a plug-and-play setup, with the configurations preloaded, and supplied with custom harness to simplify the installation process. This reduces downtime and allows for quick deployment, so you can start gathering and analysing data without delay and deliver value from the get go.
Real-Time Data Processing
High-Speed Data Transmission: The mCore®SDR gateway provides high-speed data capture and transmission, ensuring that you have real-time access to critical information. But don’t worry, mCore only transmits data on exception, and won’t suck up your network bandwidth broadcasting redundant information. All of which is fully customizable through mCores user interface, which can be accessed remotely.
Edge Computing: The gateway’s built-in edge computing capabilities allow for preliminary data processing at the source, reducing the load on central servers and enabling faster decision-making. This particular useful for suspension struts, where the values can change in milliseconds, meaning that with other solutions only poll for data every second, potential high energy events caused by pot holes and poor road conditions can be completely missed, unlike the mCore which can analyse these events in real-time as they occur, so that you never miss and event that is causing damage to your assets.
Enhanced Security
Robust Encryption: Having mCores installed in critical infrastructure for over a decade now, we understand the risks in today’s world, with your data security being one of our top priority’s at Monico. mCore®SDR gateway employs robust encryption protocols to protect your data from unauthorized access and cyber threats.
Secure Remote Access: Manage and monitor your telemetry systems securely from any location, ensuring that you remain in control, even when the machines are out in the field operating and on the move.
Scalability and Flexibility
Customizable Solutions: No two operations are exactly alike, and Monico understands that each industry has unique requirements. The mCore®SDR gateway is designed with scalability and flexibility in mind, allowing you to customize the solution to meet your specific needs. Whether you’re looking to monitor a single asset or an entire fleet, mCore®SDR can be tailored to fit your operation.
As your business grows and your needs evolve, mCore®SDR can scale with you, ensuring that your telemetry solution remains relevant and effective. This flexibility is key to future-proofing your operations and ensuring that you can continue to optimize performance as new challenges and opportunities arise.
Data Visualization and Analytics – Preconfigured for your application
mGuard MachineWatch: If you’ve been trying to build your own solution? Including trying to figure out how and where to store the large volumes of data generated by machines, identify key personnel that understand the machines, data and analytics and have the time to write the algorithms as well as identify a solution on how your team will interact with the data, and the analytic results? Have you been struggling to get it off the ground? Monico can get you up and running quickly and realizing real-time actionable intelligence from your machine telemetry data.
Comprehensive Support
Expert Assistance: Implementing a new telemetry system can be a complex process, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Monico is committed to providing comprehensive support at every stage of your telemetry journey. From initial setup to ongoing maintenance, our team of experts is always on hand to ensure that you get the most out of your investment in telemetry technology.
Our subject matter experts bring deep industry knowledge to the table, helping you identify the best solutions for your specific needs. Whether you’re in oil and gas, mining, marine, or another industry, Monico has the expertise to guide you through the complexities of telemetry and ensure that you realize the full potential of your data.
Transforming Your Operations with Monico
At Monico, we don’t just supply a telemetry device; we provide an end-to-end comprehensive solution designed to transform your business. The mCore®SDR gateway and mGuard MachineWatch are more than just tools—they are enablers of a new way of operating, where data-driven decision-making is at the forefront of your strategy.
By simplifying your telemetry-driven decision journey, Monico empowers you to make smarter, faster decisions that drive your business forward. Whether you’re looking to reduce downtime, increase equipment reliability, or extend component life, Monico’s solutions are designed to deliver tangible results.
Unlock the Full Potential of Your Telemetry Data
In an increasingly data-driven world, the ability to harness telemetry data effectively can be a game-changer for your operations. Monico’s mCore®SDR gateway and mGuard MachineWatch provide the tools you need to unlock the full potential of your telemetry data, transforming raw information into actionable insights that drive efficiency, safety, and profitability.
Don’t let the complexity of telemetry hold you back. With Monico’s comprehensive solutions, you can simplify your telemetry journey, integrate seamlessly with your existing systems, and start realizing the benefits of real-time data analysis today.
