What is VibroSmart DMS?

The VibroSmart® DMS (distributed monitoring system) is a system of modular and scalable

products designed for condition monitoring and machinery protection applications for power

generation turbines, oil and gas applications and auxiliary balance-of-plant equipment.

VibroSmart DMS modules can be mounted directly on machinery, eliminating the need for

costly cabling, because VibroSmart is designed and certified to work in extremes, such as

harsh industrial environments characterised by potentially explosive atmospheres (ATEX

Zone 2), high temperatures (70°C) and high mechanical stress. VibroSmart complements the

VM600 series of rack-based solutions from Meggitt Sensing Systems’ Vibro-Meter ® product

line and is compatible with the same VibroSight ® software.

A VibroSmart DMS is a network of small and economical devices providing different

monitoring system functions (for example, measurement or communications) that are

connected together in one or more measurement blocks in order to provide the functionality

normally offered by rack-based machinery monitoring systems.

In general, a VibroSmart DMS can contain up to 8 measurement blocks and each

measurement block can contain up to 16 VibroSmart modules. For example, this allows a

VibroSmart DMS using VSV300 vibration monitoring modules (two dynamic input channels

and one auxiliary input channel) to be built that provides a monitoring system with between

1 and 384 input channels (256 dynamic and 128 auxiliary/tachometer).

The actual functionality provided by a VibroSmart DMS depends on how the constituent

measurement blocks and VibroSmart DMS modules are configured, which is done using the

VibroSight® software.