Cyber-Physical Prototype·Jan – Mar 2025·NIT Tiruchirappalli

Industrial IoT Predictive Maintenance

A sensor prototype and designed analytics pipeline for condition monitoring of industrial motors and pumps.

Animated Tinkercad prototype for monitoring vibration and other rotating-equipment sensor signals

Overview & Research Motivation

This academic cyber-physical prototype models condition monitoring for rotating equipment such as industrial motors and pumps. The implemented Tinkercad/Arduino sensing stack combines vibration, temperature, force, voltage, and speed/RPM inputs to make equipment state observable during operation.

Alongside the sensor prototype, I designed an analytics pipeline covering acquisition, filtering and noise reduction, normalization, RMS, kurtosis and spectral feature extraction, health classification, anomaly detection, and remaining-useful-life regression concepts. Time-series ingestion, monitoring dashboards, and potential edge/SCADA integration are architectural extensions rather than claims that every predictive model was implemented.

The Core Systems Problem

  • Unexpected motor failure in industrial plant environments can cause costly production downtime, while commercial predictive-maintenance systems may be difficult for small-scale manufacturing facilities to adopt.

My Specific Technical Contributions

  • Prototyped the Arduino/Tinkercad sensing model for vibration, temperature, force, voltage, and rotational-speed signals.
  • Designed the signal-processing workflow for noise reduction, normalization, and time- and frequency-domain feature extraction.
  • Specified the intended time-series, dashboard, health-classification, anomaly-detection, and RUL-analysis pipeline while keeping it distinct from the implemented sensor prototype.

System Architecture & Verification Pipeline

Implemented Sensor Prototype

Arduino/Tinkercad model representing vibration, temperature, force, voltage, and speed/RPM sensing for rotating equipment.

Digital Signal Processing

Designed filtering and normalization stages followed by RMS, kurtosis, and spectral-type feature extraction.

Intended Analytics & Monitoring Pipeline

Time-series ingestion and dashboards feed health classification, anomaly detection, and RUL/regression concepts, with possible edge and SCADA integration.

Technical Stack & Tools

ArduinoTinkercadC++Signal ProcessingTime-Series AnalyticsCondition Monitoring

Connected Systems & Inquiries