Created August 12, 2019 © Apache-2.0

Industrial Argon Heavy Equipment

Industrial machinery can last for years, or even decades but that's only if there properly taken care of.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

Particle Argon

Seeed Studio Grove - Vibration Sensor (SW-420)

Software apps and online services

Particle Build Web IDE

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Introduction:

Ever since centrifugal fans have been manufactured they have been subject to vibration related problems. These problems range from simple unbalance conditions caused by mass variations on the fan rotor to much more complex issues related to shaft alignment, bearing fatigue, or resonance issues. In many cases excessive vibration levels in fans lead to unplanned, forced outages to perform maintenance.

Setup:

The setup and coding of this project are fairly simple yet with the help of Particle Cloud very effective. Every time a vibration has been picked up by the sensor a message pops up on Particle Cloud warning you of the issue.

Wiring:

VCC => 3.3V (ARGON)

GND => GND (ARGON)

DO => A5 (ARGON)

Cloud Connection:

To upload sensor information to the cloud its a simple one step process done with a single line of code: Particle.publish ("vibration-detected","Misalignment Detected", PRIVATE);

Vibration Sensor Code

#define ON 1
#define OFF 0
 
int vibration_Sensor = A5;
int LED = D7;
 
int present_condition = 0;
int previous_condition = 0;

void setup() {
pinMode(vibration_Sensor, INPUT);
pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
}
 
void led_blink(void);
 
void loop() {
previous_condition = present_condition;
present_condition = digitalRead(A5); 
if (previous_condition != present_condition) {
led_blink();

Particle.publish ("vibration-detected","Misalignment Detected", PRIVATE);
 
} else {
digitalWrite(LED, OFF);
}
}
 
void led_blink(void) {
digitalWrite(LED, ON);
delay(250);
digitalWrite(LED, OFF);
delay(250);
digitalWrite(LED, ON);
delay(250);
digitalWrite(LED, OFF);
delay(250);
}

Credits

George Kartsonas

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Industrial Argon Heavy Equipment

Industrial Argon Heavy Equipment

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

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Vibration Sensor Code

Credits

George Kartsonas

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