The service is suitable for infrastructure monitoring where there are installation and cabling constraints and significant power supply challenges.

Guillaume Chelius, co-founder and CEO of HIKOB, says: "This new offer revolutionises the monitoring business by the use of the IoT: it allows us to realise missions which were not possible with classical monitoring systems. We will be focusing our development on two target markets: road and mobility monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring ."

New WOLF hardware and software platforms, combined with HIKOB technologies and expertise, allows users to quickly deploy custom-made monitoring for condition monitoring of industrial assets, equipment and heavy machinery, as well as infrastructure.

•  For stationary systems, the objective is to provide end customers with powerful systems to collect strategic data for condition-based maintenance.

•  For embedded systems, HIKOB's offering is easy to deploy on mobile assets (machinery or mobile equipment) to provide the condition and health data required to maintain these assets in operational condition.

With integrated batteries and solar panel, HIKOB's autonomous and wireless acquisition nodes are said to bring added value to monitoring applications – easy and quick installation and real time data collection from the field for remote analytics. HIKOB is targeting deployments in outdoor and harsh environments (urban areas, big civil infrastructures, industrial grounds, and so on).

HIKOB delivers a tailored and personalised service to quickly launch and deploy any kind of monitoring projects, or to integrate within an OEM framework all or parts of the HIKOB hardware and software platform in a third party product or service.

HIKOB WOLF acquisition nodes capture in real time the measures and transmit raw and processed data via HIKOB wireless acquisition network:

• HIKOB WOLF-T has an interface to integrate a temperature probe, external sensor, RDT or thermocouple.

• HIKOB WOLF-S has an interface to integrate a full bridge strain gauge input.

• HIKOB WOLF-I ihas 3 inputs to integrate multiple external analogic sensors 0-10V/4-20mA: accelerometer, crackmeter, environmental sensors.

The new nodes are said to bring numerous benefits:

•  A robust and two-ways wireless communication: no interference with other wireless networks (Bluetooth, WIFI),

•  An easier deployment of the radio network allowing to cover important distances and large spaces,

•  Reliable data: continuous data acquisition, more relevant data spectrum allowing advanced analytics (for instance vibratory analytics),

•  An extended life cycle for the sensor due to an optimised management of the resources for data processing.