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Self-powered Bearing Ball Harvester

Reliable function of bearings is crucial for most industrial and logistics processes. However, they are always subject to wear and tear. Knowing the condtion of at least the most mission critical bearings ensures relilable system function at minimum cost for maintenance and material. Micropelt’s bearing ball harvester provides sustainable power for always-on condition monitoring via wireless sensors. Such devices help making the shift from expensive and resource consuming preventive maintenance schemes allowing for resource optimized condition based maintenance. Cost of ownership of such self-sustaining systems is limited to device cost and mounting only. Just assemble, link to the condition monitoring wireless & wired network - and forget.

Bearing ball adapter