MotorPulse AI

How it fits together

MotorPulse AI, part by part

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1. 01

   The whole MotorPulse AI

   A battery node bolted to a motor's bearing housing senses vibration and heat, and sends run state and a bearing-wear trend over LoRa.

2. 02Brain

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262)

   The brain: it runs the motorpulse firmware program

3. 03

   Run-check accelerometer

   Checks vibration for 1 s each minute to tell run from stop

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262) · SPI (shared bus) · Low-power vibration data

4. 04

   Wideband vibration sensor

   Captures bearing vibration at 26.7 kHz once an hour

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262) · SPI (shared bus) · 26.7 kHz samples

5. 05

   Base temperature sensor

   Reads the housing temperature through the steel base

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262) · I²C (2 wires) · Temperature

6. 06

   915 MHz antenna

   Sends LoRa messages to the plant gateway

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262) · U.FL RF lead · 915 MHz LoRa radio

7. 

   07

   Lithium primary cell

   Powers the node for years; capacitors cover radio bursts

   RAK3172 (STM32WLE5 + SX1262) · Direct 3.6 V supply · 3.6 V power

8. 08

   All connected

   6 key parts, one program, and your phone

The idea

A battery node on each motor, pump and fan that says when it stops and when its bearings start to wear

How the parts connect

MotorPulse AI, wired up

Every part, what links it to the brain, and how the data reaches your phone. A solid line is a cable; a dashed line is a radio link.

The program

What controls MotorPulse AI

for (;;) {
    sleep_stop2_until(WAKE_1MIN);
    float rms = lis2dw12_burst_rms(400);          // 1 s at 400 Hz, SPI
    bool run = run_detector_update(rms);          // learned thresholds
    if (run != last_run) lorawan_send(FPORT_STATE, state_pkt(run, rms));
    if (run && snapshot_due()) {
        iis3dwb_power(true);                      // load switch on
        for (int ax = 0; ax < 3; ax++)
            features_add(capture_axis(ax, 8192)); // 26.7 kHz, CMSIS-DSP FFT
        iis3dwb_power(false);
        lorawan_send(FPORT_SUMMARY, summary_pkt(tmp117_read()));
    }
}

To your phone

How the data reaches MotorPulse

Phone or laptop browser; SMS and email alerts

1. Motor node
2. LoRaWAN 915 MHz
3. Plant gateway
4. MQTT over TLS
5. App server

Key specs

Targets for production units; they may change during development.

Pricing

Target pricing. One gateway covers many nodes in range. No per-asset analyst contract required.

Indicative launch pricing in USD, excluding taxes and shipping. Final pricing is confirmed before any balance is charged.

1. 29 Oct 2026, 09:25LatestPlant managers and maintenance leads at plants with 10 to 60 motors, pumps and fans find out about a tripped pump at the next shift and a worn bearing when it seizes; machine-health services are quoted per machine with analysts and basic meters cost $186 to $455 a point plus a gateway (MotorPulse DESIGN.md market check).

   • Drawn idea plan (idea.json): a small plant from above with the pump room, the production line, the maintenance office, the cooling tower outside and the loading dock; pins for a node on a booster pump, a node on the cooling-tower fan motor, a node on the line gearbox, the gateway on the wall, the maintenance office and the service contractor's van
   • The product picture is now this drawn plan instead of the plain fallback card; drawn from the design notes, not the CAD
   • What the plan keeps from the market work: we say only that a bearing trend is getting worse than its own baseline, not a fault diagnosis, and a local mode with no subscription is offered
   • Next: more drawn plans for catalogue products that still show the fallback card (oxycart, paceroll), then close-out C5 (buyer review prep for sports) from 12:00

   See it in 3DFull research and design

2. 27 Oct 2026, 04:30A small plant wants to know, for each compressor or big machine, whether it is running, whether the motor bearings are wearing, how much air leaks while the plant is closed, whether a panel joint is getting hot and what the dials read. Today that is five separate kits, such as a $999 Flir vibration kit, the compressor maker's own portal (Atlas Copco SMARTLINK, its machines only) and a clipboard round.

   • Combined into PlantNode (https://iemilabs.com/products/plantnode/); MotorPulse itself is unchanged

   See it in 3DFull research and design