Cloud-Based Wireless Energy Monitoring

LORD MicroStrain's new Watt-Link wireless sensor node streamlines discrete industrial power installations and provides remote energy monitoring and reporting via any web-connected device. Applications include energy management, building automation, metering, and equipment performance monitoring, verification, evaluation, and diagnostics.

Watt-Link uses LXRS® wireless communication network to achieve the simplicity of wireless use with the reliability of a hardwired system. Devices synchronize bidirectional power, energy, and demand data with other LORD MicroStrain condition-based monitoring including wireless strain, vibration, and temperature. SensorCloud™, LORD's cloud-based data aggregation, visualization, and analytics platform, allows Watt-Link users to receive real-time alerts and custom reports via email and SMS.

The LXRS® wireless protocol is a 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 compliant communication architecture featuring Lossless Extended Range Synchronized wireless data. LXRS combines microsecond time-synchronization with a scalable star network. User controllable sampling rates are automatically coordinated over thousands of wireless sensor nodes, all with 100% reliable data throughput under most operating conditions.

LXRS® lossless protocol combines the simplicity of wireless systems with the reliability of hardwired data transmission. LXRS works by leveraging advanced bi-directional radio communication protocols to acknowledge when data packets are successfully received by a wireless gateway. Data that are not acknowledged remain within each wireless sensor node's non-volatile memory for re-transmission according to the network scheduler. All data are time-stamped by each node at the time of analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion, and therefore, always remain accurately time-stamped, even when re-transmitted.