Petasense
Wireless vibration sensors with ML-driven asset health analytics
About
Petasense sells compact wireless Vibration Motes that mount on rotating machines and stream vibration and temperature data to its ARO Cloud, where machine learning models assess asset health and send real-time alerts. The San Jose company offers VM4 models for fixed and variable-speed equipment plus a Transmitter module for wired sensor inputs, and reports customers including Barrick, Exelon, and Stanford (company-reported). Founded in 2014, it has raised modest seed funding ($3.6M per Tracxn), so it is much smaller than enterprise rivals.
What it can do
- Wireless vibration sensing
- Temperature and speed monitoring
- ML asset health scoring
- Real-time alerts
- Web and mobile apps
Setup
- Order Vibration Motes and an ARO Cloud subscription
- Mount motes on rotating equipment
- Connect via WiFi to the ARO Cloud
- Monitor asset health in web and mobile apps
Prerequisites
ARO Cloud subscription required for mote use; WiFi coverage in the facility
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: $3.6M seed funding (Tracxn); small vendor; Customer list (Barrick, Exelon, Stanford) is company-reported; VM4 datasheet well-documented. License: Commercial proprietary software.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 5.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · $3.6M seed funding (Tracxn); small vendor
- · Customer list (Barrick, Exelon, Stanford) is company-reported
- · VM4 datasheet well-documented
Sources
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