The Eight-Legged Sensor

Why Machine Vitals Beats Vibration at Its Own Game 

If you’re still relying on a single vibration sensor to tell you how your asset is doing, you might as well be diagnosing heart disease with a thermometer. Yes, vibration is valuable but Machine Vitals doesn’t stop there. It’s the Swiss Army knife of condition monitoring, and vibration is just one blade in the set. 

Let’s talk numbers: Machine Vitals gives you eight independent sensor channels, all synchronized and logged together that’s 8x the insight, 8x the potential, and honestly, 8x cooler. 

Here’s what it captures: 

• Internal Pressure 
• External Pressure 
• Internal Temperature 
• External Temperature 
• Internal Humidity 
• External Humidity 
• IMU-based motion + vibration (1kHz high-resolution frequency and movement tracking) 
• Acoustic signal capture (the sense of sound, literally) 

That’s more than a sensor it’s a stethoscope, thermometer, barometer, accelerometer, and weather station, all mounted on your gearbox (or bearing housing, or reservoir it fits any oil lubricated equipment that has a ½”NPT in the headspace of the oil bath). 

Why it Matters: 

More parameters mean more derived insights. Here's just a sample: 

• Dew point - because condensation and gears don’t mix 
• Pressure differentials - early signs of seal degradation 
• Vibration and acoustic changes - early anomaly detection 
• Humidity shifts - environmental ingress or process variation 
• Temperature behavior - bearing health, load changes, or lubrication breakdown 

Add in the Sensei Enabled Opto-Matic Oiler, and now you’re monitoring oil level in real time from your screen. That’s not just condition monitoring that’s asset surveillance. 

And speaking of screens… 

Watch Everything. Compare Everything. From Anywhere. 

Whether you manage a dozen assets or a dozen plants, Sensei Web App gives you the ability to compare machine-to-machine, area-to-area, and plant-to-plant from a single interface. 

You can identify systemic issues, compare failure trends by site, and benchmark performance between locations all using the same eight-legged data engine. 

It’s like A/B testing for your mechanical world. 

The Mobile App That Brings It All Together 

When your team is on the ground, the Trico Mobile App steps in. Technicians can: 

• Log maintenance events (timestamped and asset-linked) 
• Record observations during walkdowns (“smelled burning”, “saw leaking”, “heard grinding”) 
• Offload data via Bluetooth when needed (especially in offline or air-gapped facilities) 
• Provision and profile each asset to give context to the data stream 

 All of it flows upstream to the Sensei Web App a single cloud-based environment where hardware data, field notes, and now even lab results converge. 

Wait, Lab Results too? 

That’s right. Thanks to new SSO integration, your oil analysis reports from Trico's Orbital Platform are now embedded within the Sensei experience. 

You’ve now got: 

• Real-time machine data (Machine Vitals)
• Visual level monitoring (Sensei Enabled Opto-Matic Oiler) 
• Field-level context (Trico Mobile App) 
• Laboratory diagnostics (Orbital Platform) 
• Cloud-hosted intelligence (Sensei Web App) 

The Result? The Most Complete Equipment Insights on the Market. 

One sensor. One app. One platform. And every piece of context you need mechanical, environmental, acoustic, human, and chemical in one place. 

This isn’t just predictive maintenance. This is predictive confidence. 

And with Machine Vitals at the center, you’ll never look at a simple vibration-only sensor the same way again.

Take the Next Step

If you're ready to move beyond fragmented insights and start making confident, data-driven maintenance decisions, it's time to put Machine Vitals to the test. Launch a pilot program and experience firsthand how comprehensive, real-time monitoring can change the way you manage asset health and performance.

Because when you have the full picture, you're not just monitoring you're leading.