How long does installation take across a plant?
Each device installs in minutes, non-invasively, with no infrastructure upgrade and no production stop. Most plants start with a handful of critical machines and expand from there. Our team can install it for you as a turnkey deployment, or you can self-install with a guided kit. A photo of each machine's nameplate is enough to get started.
Do I need to shut down a line to install it?
No. The wireless sensors are non-invasive and mount in minutes — there is no line shutdown and no rewiring to get started.
What kinds of plant equipment can it monitor?
Drive motors, gearboxes, compressors, pumps, fans and production equipment — the mixed fleet a manufacturing plant runs. Standard signals are vibration, temperature, AC current and load, power and energy, runtime and uptime, and the ambient environment. The device also accepts new sensors and custom parameters whenever a process needs them.
How is this different from a CMMS?
A CMMS tracks the work; IoT Octopus tells you what work is needed and when. It watches equipment health continuously and turns its findings into AI recommendations and drafted work orders your team approves. It works alongside an existing CMMS - nothing gets ripped out.
How is our data secured, and where is it stored?
Your equipment data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with per-customer data isolation. The primary data region is Canada, and the platform is built on Google Cloud. You own your data at all times.
Can we start with just a few machines?
Yes. Deployments often start with a handful of critical assets. Monitoring and health verdicts begin on day one from a physics-based baseline; the baseline refines against each machine's real duty cycle over the first weeks, and by month three each asset has a learned profile, fleet benchmarking and monthly reports.
