IMI Sensors Receives Hazardous Location Class I Division 2 Approval for Echo® Wireless Vibration Sensor

Wireless vibration monitoring can now be used in hazardous location applications, such as those found in oil and gas refineries

February 28, 2014, DEPEW, NY – IMI Sensors, a division of PCB Piezotronics, Inc., announces the CSA approval for Echo® Wireless Vibration Sensor model CS670A01 for vibration monitoring in Class I Division 2 Hazardous Location applications. Vibration monitoring applications include: motors, pumps, compressors, and fans; especially those in remote, inaccessible, and hazardous locations.

The wireless technology of the Echo® Wireless Vibration Monitoring System compliments predictive maintenance programs in oil and gas refining facilities. By supplementing the collection of route-based data, skilled analysts spend less time collecting data on healthy machines and can focus their valuable time on higher value tasks, such as fault analysis on faulty machines as identified by Echo®. It also enables the collection of machine heath monitoring data in hazardous areas, which eliminates the need to have a skilled worker enter these dangerous places to collect routine measurements. The risk and cost of monitoring hard-to-access machines is greatly reduced when the Echo® System is introduced into a predictive maintenance program.

The new certification contains the following approval:

Last week, IMI also announced the Class I, Division 2 certification from CSA for EchoPlus® Wireless Junction box. When combined with IMI’s hazardous area approved sensors, such as model EX603C01, the EchoPlus® Wireless Junction Box model CS672A01 is ideal for the monitoring of rotating equipment in oil & gas refining and processing applications.

The EchoPlus® is an 8-channel junction box that instantly converts installed industrial sensors to wireless operation. This incredibly economical device periodically powers each sensor; takes velocity, acceleration, true peak, and crest factor measurement; and transmits them wirelessly. While the default transmission interval is 8 hours, it is also user-programmable.

For more information, download the Echo® Wireless Vibration Monitoring System brochure here.

Or visit the IMI-Sensors at:
www.imi-sensors.com/EchoPlus.aspx

Please direct all technical inquiries to:
Stephen Arlington, Product Marketing Manager
Phone: (716) 684-0002 x2353
Email: sarlington@pcb.com