ABSTRACT
In today’s fast-paced world, held together by connectivity and knowledge sharing, access to information plays a major role in helping us to stay updated. Internet of things (IoT) gives us the very ability to link objects together and bring them under one umbrella of observation. Implementing such a technology to create innovative solutions has been a part of constant research and development, especially from the industrial viewpoint. This paper presents an implementation of an IoT-based system for maintaining surveillance on the health of the rotating motors using sensors to collect the data from the plant on-site, also known as condition monitoring. These data are uploaded to the Internet for immediate access to real-time working conditions of the industrial work environment. By having access to this statistics, control of the system can be implemented, which would form an ideal closed-loop framework. Thus, this simplifies the monitoring procedure and provides accessibility to the remote user. The system is developed on Raspberry Pi, as the main controller, which sends information via IoT gateway, ThingSpeak, to the Internet. Thus, online monitoring of the rotating machinery is possible with sensor-based data acquisition model in place at the site of the motors.
