The media said a miniature vibrating generator was born in Britain

According to statistics, so far, most monitoring is done by expensive hard line sensors or very few maintenance personnel using handheld surveillance devices. Perpetuum's vibration power generation unit enables it to continuously monitor important production lines or machines for a long time and improve economic performance. This micro generator now has been recognized by the oil industry, and gas station for use in several, including Shell Nyhamna in Norway natural gas plant, it provides power for wireless shock and temperature sensor. According to Shell, the wireless vibration and temperature monitoring system in Norway has been successful and has opened up wireless technology as a way of scaling the global application. Shell has 20 million sensor sites worldwide, and it plans to switch to wireless sensors over the next 10 years.

When the Perpetuum manager SteveRoberts joined University of Southampton in 2005 under the company, his challenge is a "proof of concept" demonstration product into a patent and has a market value of the product, and it can be used as wireless sensor is reliable and safe and no power source to maintain and use at least 20 years of life. Roberts said: "although we know that the principle of vibration generator has been for many years, and in the oil industry, wireless sensor development really gives us the power to develop products with market value.". The cost of downtime - such as offshore oil production platforms - is enormous, so operators use sensors extensively to ensure that damage and potential problems are discovered early (before a failure is triggered). In the oil industry, generally speaking, installing a hard wire sensor costs about $30 thousand, so you can accurately identify why wireless sensors are so much improved." Factory leaders use accelerometers and thermometers to monitor the bearings and rotors of machines such as engines, blowers, pumps and compressors. An increase in temperature or abnormal vibration indicates the presence of defects that may eventually lead to machine failure. By monitoring the temperature and vibration of the machine, the engineer can understand the situation and guess the machine failure. In this way, preventive measures can be taken, such as planned maintenance and repair, to avoid huge losses due to downtime.

Perpetuum says its vibration power generator, PMG17, is a safe and durable replacement for batteries and hard wired power supplies. The micro generator uses a well designed consensus magnet and coil arrangement to convert mechanical vibrations into electrical power, providing power for the entire wireless sensing system. The micro generator generates enough power to provide power for several low energy wireless sensors over a wide variety of wireless networks.