Internet of Things Acoustic Emission: Systems and Applications

Internet of Things Acoustic Emission (IOT AE) was developed and introduced in hardware, software and network structure. IOT AE transmits the data and analysis results to the network server through the Internet/intranet. The analysis results can go to the end user’s smart phones and PCs as alarm info. Users don’t need the acoustic emission technicians to operate IOT AE. So IOT AE can be used as remote long-term unattended monitoring and automatic alarm system. Compared with traditional acoustic emission instrument which needs to process the data manually to get the detection and monitoring results, IOT AE control the data acquisition and data analysis by embedded software automatically. Besides the long-term cycle of self-learning correction of artificial intelligence based on big data on the server makes the system have the ability of self-learning, self-improvement and continuous improvement of performance. This paper introduces the IOT AE systems developed and discusses the application of IOT AE technology of monitoring and alarming for valve leakage, wire rope breakage and tool wear, etc.