IMI Sensors Receives Hazardous Area Class 1 Division 2 Approval for Wireless Vibration Monitoring Junction Box

Wireless Junction Box can now be used in hazardous area applications, such as those found in oil and gas refineries

February 12, 2014, Depew, N.Y. - IMI Sensors, a division of PCB Piezotronics, Inc., announces the CSA approval of Echo® Wireless Vibration Monitoring System model CS672A01 for vibration monitoring in Class 1 Division 2 Hazardous Area applications. Possible vibration monitoring applications include placement on motors, pumps, and fans; especially those in remote, inaccessible, and hazardous locations.

The wireless technology of the Echo® Vibration Monitoring System compliments predictive maintenance programs in oil and gas refining facilities. By supplementing the collection of route-based data on healthy machines, the EchoPlus® allows plant operators to focus their valuable technical manpower on higher value tasks, such as fault analysis to diagnose unhealthy machinery. 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:

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 wireless junction box is an 8-channel junction box that instantly converts installed industrial sensors to wireless operation. This incredibly economical device periodically powers each sensor, makes the same set of overall measurements as Echo® and transmits them wirelessly. The default transmission interval is 8 hours, but it is also user-programmable.

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

Or visit the IMI-Sensors at:
www.pcb.com/IndustrialSensors/WirelessVibrationMonitoringSystem

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