MACHINERY HEALTH MONITORING AND ALERT SYSTEM USING ARDUINO AND ANDROID APPLICATION

Abstract

Machinery safety is the most important aspect needed around manufacturing or other engineering equipment. Machine guarding provides a means to protect humans from injury while working nearby or while operating equipment. Machinery that has rotary part such as turbines, pumps, fans, rollers, are needed to be monitored to report the vibration whether they are safety or not. Thus the preventive action is needed to ensure the safety of machinery before being used. The combination of mobile device and Arduino can be used to make a single system that identify the machine health and alert the users if there are some issues. This thesis will discuss the development of Arduino and Android application to monitor machinery health and give alert via android app to the user. The Arduino is able to detect the vibration from the machine and send the information into android app. The information may include the vibration pattern, acceleration (g) value, and also gives alert via android Smartphone vibration and ringtone. The purpose of this thesis is to create a supporting technology that capable to detect machine vibration and alert the users via android application if there is a problem, and also the users can monitor the vibration through the real time graph chart.