UniTorq has created a Wireless Valve Condition Monitoring device (VCM) utilizing a 900 MHz Mesh network. This device helps with intelligent real time maintenance and monitoring of your quarter turn and linear valve applications.

• The VCM will indicate a valve position.
• The VCM will keep track of the number of cycles a valve has changed position.
• The VCM will measure the time it takes a valve to open or close, indicating a potential actuator or valve failure.
• The VCM also has temperature measuring capabilities, which can indicate valve packing leakage/failure.

The customer can determine the data configuration of the units. The units can send information to the host every time an operator queries them, an event occurs, or only when a threshold alarm has happened. The software can create a log of any data the host has received, thus making data more useful.

By utilizing the Mesh network, the unit can be integrated into existing industrial networks through a gateway/access point. Data getting to the access point can be translated from the UniTorq protocol to most industrial formats such as As-interface, DeviceNet, Foundation Field Bus, PROFIBUS, MODBUS, TCP/IP etc. (Figure 1)