all of us understand that man (or, in some cases, we are that guy) that can listen to a cars and truck running as well as state something like, “Yep. Needs a lifter adjustment.” A startup business named Augury aims to replace that skill with an iphone app.
Aimed at industrial installations, a technician locations a magnetic sensor to the body of the device in question. The sensor links to a customized box called an Auguscope that collects vibration as well as ultrasonic data as well as forwards it through the iphone to a back end server for analysis. moving the sensor can even enable the back end to identify the place of the fault in some cases. The comparison data the back end utilizes includes recommendation data on similar machines in addition to historical data about the device in question.
We couldn’t assist however question why the hacker neighborhood hasn’t been building things such as this for a long time. We have lots of CPUs with sufficient horsepower to gather audio (or other sensor data) as well as process it. If you wished to diagnose cars, for example, you can discover seems easily sufficient for training.
There are a few academic papers on the subject, however nothing we might discover in the method of hacker-style projects. perhaps the comments will flesh out some. If not, this seems like a ripe area for experimentation. Acoustic analysis of a PC might determine fan, power supply, as well as difficult drive issues (as long as you aren’t utilizing a solid specify drive). Anything with moving parts might be a candidate.
About the closest thing we discovered in the archives was a hybrid magnetic/audio system to plot motor balance. We’d like to see some much more work in this area over on Hackaday.io.
Images courtesy of Augury.