Radicos has developed and patented TWIN, a hardware-based sensor platform for industrial IoT applications in harsh environments. Sensors can be used as actuators to trigger alarms or activate equipment via e.g. a photocoupler. USPs are low power consumption, wide range, ease of installation and maintenance as sensors are wired to a single twisted pair cable that can be mounted and repaired with minimal effort and cost.
Bernhard Heibl
Our Representatives
CHALLENGES
Industry players cannot access their own data in real-time to measure and optimize processes, e.g.
- Production Lines are missing information about produced goods and their positions
- Fire Detection Systems raise late alarms and do not detect fires in their incipient phase
- Decentralized power grid segments incur current peaks and overheat or are underutilized
- Industrial Conveyor Belts are not equipped with alarm systems for predictive maintenance
- Green Houses and Stables are not covered with fine-grained sensors to optimize yield
- Conventional Fire Detection Systems on ships fail to detect and localize container fires
- Heavy Machinery and Generators are services to early (higher costs) or too late (malfunction)
Leading to
- Dangerous and Expensive Incidents
- Downtime of Machinery
- Underutilized Infrastructure
TARGET MARKETS
Radicos and TWIN are industry agnostic, applications include but are not limited to Agriculture, Production Lines, Heavy Duty Conveyors and Fire Detection
We are currently focusing on production line monitoring (smart factories), agriculture monitoring and fire detection. Additionally we have successfully deployed TWIN on a container ship in the past to detect potential fires in the cargo hold as early and as precise as possible. You can find more about potential applications at www.radicos.com/applications
BUSINESS MODEL
Sale of solutions (end-to-end or components)
Sales of hardware components (preferably to a distribution/OEM partner)
Licensing of core technology
USPs
- Deployed via a single, continuous cable (no star wiring required)
- Ultra low power consumption (3w, can drive sensors from a battery)
- Wide reach (4km) of a single system, easily extendable via multiple systems
- High speed polling (1000 sensors/s with 12 bits resolution)
- Thousands of sensors per system with multi-sensor support
- Digital sensors with high resolution (e.g. 0.025°C for temperature)
- Generic sensor interface to integrate any 3rd party sensor or data source
- Each sensor node can be used as an actuator (via e.g. a photocoupler)
- Fault tolerant against short-circuits and cable interruptions / cuts
- Easy to install/maintain: Hot-Plug; Light weight twisted pair cable (20-60g/m)
USE CASES
Extend any existing infrastructure with highly reliable and wired sensors of your choice.
Use cases have included the monitoring of heavy equipment, conveyor belts and production lines to identify anomalies of temperature, vibration, gas concentrations, pressure, electrical current.
The data collected is utilized to enable predictive maintenance, energy management (precise cooling / heating), manufacturing cadence and linear heat detection for precise fire detection and control.
In all cases the collected data leads to insights that enable cost-reduction of existing infrastructure (e.g. in-time replacement of parts, optimized heating/cooling) with an increase in safety (e.g. fire and malfunction detection) where possible.