The line separating online, permanent monitoring from hand-held,
periodic data collection has been steadily shifting over the last two
decades. A significant barrier to the adoption of conventional permanent monitoring has always been the complexity and installation costs associated with permanently mounting transducers and running the necessary hardwiring for signal and power. This is especially true for remote locations or areas of your plant where access is difficult.

Today, wireless technology fromGE is available tomeet the demanding criteria of such applications.We are proud to be at the leading edge of these technologies with the introduction of our new Bently Nevada* Essential Insight .mesh* wireless solution.
Our wireless solution consists of the following:
• wSIM* – a wireless mesh network node that supports up to four
sensor inputs. Initially supporting vibration (dynamic waveform
and static data) and temperature.
• wSIM Repeater – a mesh-only node without I/O ports. This node
extends the mesh network coverage for broader communications
but does not directly support physically connected I/O.
• Manager Gateway – a gateway node that enables communication
with other networks and protocols; it also serves as the network
manager.
• Transducers – rugged and reliable vibration (accelerometer) and
thermocouple probes (additional measurements to follow).