Railway infrastructure

Switch-point motor monitoring in the DB Netz DIANA project

In the DIANA project of DB Netz AG, a predecessor of the Edge-Compute works together with the DIR-IDS sensor to capture the power data of railway switch-point motors.

Each switching operation leaves a characteristic current and power signature. Recording it continuously at the trackside — instead of during periodic inspections — turns every switch into a monitored asset and makes wear visible long before it causes a failure.

• Trackside acquisition of motor power data via the DIR-IDS sensor
• Local buffering and pre-processing before upload
• Continuous condition data instead of interval-based inspection

Process industry · Heat exchangers

Fouling detection on air-fin coolers with infrared cameras

At Kelvion, the Edge-Compute serves as the data acquisition platform for IR cameras that detect fouling on air-fin coolers.

Fouling reduces heat transfer and drives up energy consumption. Thermal imaging shows it directly — the Edge-Compute powers the PoE cameras, collects the image streams, and provides the compute to evaluate them on site.

• PoE power and data for multiple IR cameras over a single M12 cable each
• On-edge image acquisition and evaluation
• Aggregated fouling indicators forwarded upstream — not raw video

Predictive maintenance · Federated learning

Privacy-preserving pump condition monitoring

NexuFed AI and the Institute of Communication Acoustics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Prof. Martin) use the Edge-Compute to analyze pump data and enable condition-based maintenance with maximum privacy.

With federated learning, models are trained where the data is produced. The Edge-Compute's two separated Ethernet interfaces make this natural: sensor data stays on the LAN side, and only model updates — never raw measurements — cross into the upstream network.

• Acoustic and vibration data analyzed on the edge
• Federated model training — raw data never leaves the site
• Condition-based maintenance without a central data lake

Electronics manufacturing · Soldering

HORUS Monitoring for continuous soldering processes

Global Point and Kurtz Ersa use the Edge-Compute in HORUS Monitoring to ensure perfectly soldered circuit boards in continuous production processes.

The device ships in HORUS branding — the front plate shown here — and acts as the compute and networking backbone of the monitoring system, collecting process data from the soldering line and making it available for quality assurance.

• Custom-branded Edge-Compute as part of an OEM product
• Continuous process data acquisition on the soldering line
• Quality assurance for every board, not just samples

Fundamental research · Accelerator physics

Controlling the PANDA luminosity detector at GSI/FAIR

Together with the EP1 chair, Hadron and Nuclear Physics group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Prof. Fritsch), the Edge-Compute monitors and controls the linear shift mechanism of the PANDA luminosity detector for GSI/FAIR and the HESR storage ring currently under construction.

In an accelerator environment, reliability and remote operability are everything. The sealed aluminum enclosure, M12 connectors, and an open Linux system with EPICS support make the Edge-Compute a natural fit for detector control.

• Monitoring and control of a precision mechanical positioning system
• Integration into the experiment control system (EPICS)
• Rugged, sealed hardware for the accelerator hall

Environmental monitoring · Water quality

Impedance spectroscopy for river water quality across the continental US

Prof. Warnat at the Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, uses Edge-Compute technology for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to monitor the water quality of rivers across the continental United States.

Impedance spectroscopy reveals changes in water chemistry and biofilm growth directly at the measurement site. The Edge-Compute powers the sensor electronics, runs the measurement cycles, and keeps working in the field where a lab instrument never could — in a sealed aluminum enclosure, outdoors, unattended.

• Autonomous field measurement stations at remote river sites
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy executed and evaluated on the edge
• Waterproof, sealed hardware built for outdoor deployment