Legacy WiTry

Wireless Condition Monitoring Trial Program

GE offered an initial wireless trial program in 2007 called WiTry, a preassembled kit with components for 10 points of wireless condition monitoring. Our current offering, Essential Insight .mesh, expands upon the capabilities of the Legacy WiTry system.

Our Legacy WiTry program demonstrates the benefits of wireless condition monitoring, while allowing testing of the reliability, ruggedness and compatibility of GE Energy’s wSIM within your operating environment.
  • Fact Sheet (512KB PDF)
Contents:
  • Pre-configured laptop with requisite software installed
  • Ethernet Gateway
  • Transducers and mounting studs
  • The wSim devices
How easy is it to deploy?
The wSIM is straightforward to deploy. The wireless network is self-joining through our innovative mesh network technology. This means that sensors are automatically detected and added to the network, without any additional steps needed. The network is also self-healing, meaning that whenever a sensor signal path is interrupted, the mesh ensures alternate signal transmission paths and automatically adds the interrupted path, as soon as it becomes available again. This keeps your system interconnected and communicating with System 1* software at all times.

It’s as simple as these 3 steps:
1. Attach the wSIM and transducers to your machine using the magnetic or stud-mount adapters
2. Attach the Ethernet wireless gateway to the provided System 1 laptop computer
3. Confirm the nodes are recognized by the network and begin monitoring your assets

What about power?
Power options are either the Lithium C-cell battery technology, which lasts a minimum of two years even with the most frequent data collection intervals, or an Energy Harvester, which converts the vibratory motion of the machine itself to power for the wSIM. Whether using the battery or the Energy Harvester, we’ve designed the system to be virtually maintenance-free.

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