Pilot

Smart Machine Monitor

Turns a standard phone into a controlled machine-data capture tool for condition-monitoring development.

Machine, to phone, to secure upload, to analysis, and toward condition insight — which is still under validation. Machine Phone Secure upload Analysis Condition insight

The first four steps work today. The fifth is what the pilot exists to make possible — it is not claimed yet.

What it does

A technician stands at a machine, records a short sample under a defined procedure, and the recording arrives securely for analysis — with the machine details, the site, and the exact capture conditions attached to it.

It works without a signal. Recordings are held on the phone and upload themselves when connectivity returns, so a factory floor with no coverage does not mean a lost measurement.

Available on

  • iPhone — iOS 17 and later
  • Android — 7.0 and later

Each recording carries

  • Machine make, model, type
  • Site and operational status
  • Capture conditions and integrity checksum

How it works

  1. Install from the link you were sent.
  2. Activate once, with a single-use code.
  3. Position the phone as the recording protocol describes — the geometry matters more than most people expect.
  4. Record for the stated duration.
  5. Done. The recording uploads itself, now or when there is signal again.

What the app looks like

Deliberately plain. A technician on a factory floor should not have to think about the tool — the whole job is a code, a button and a wait.

iPhone

Activation screen asking for a four-part code
Activate once
Home screen with two buttons
Add machine details, or skip
Recording screen with timer and record button
Record
List of recordings each marked Uploaded
See what arrived

Android

Android home screen
Add machine details, or skip
Android recording screen with level meter
Record

The same steps on both platforms. Each phone shown in its own display theme.

The recording protocol

Results depend far more on how a recording is made than on how many are made. A microphone at a different distance, or a phone held at a different angle, changes the sound more than the difference between two machines does.

The pilot protocol therefore fixes the distance, the orientation and the operating condition, and asks for repeats of the same machine rather than single samples of many. Technicians receive it as a single page.

What a recording looks like

Every capture is a full-bandwidth waveform, not a compressed voice memo: 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, uncompressed. That matters, because the detail that distinguishes one machine from another lives in exactly the high-frequency content that ordinary audio compression discards.

An example waveform and spectrogram will be shown here, from a machine recording cleared for publication.

What is proven, and what is not

Being straight about this matters more than sounding impressive.

Working today

  • Cross-platform capture, iPhone and Android
  • Offline recording with no data loss
  • Encrypted, checksum-verified transfer
  • Machine, site and capture provenance
  • A controlled collection protocol
  • An analysis pipeline over the collected data

Under validation

  • Machine acoustic signatures
  • Anomaly detection
  • Fault identification
  • Maintenance prediction
  • Continuous monitoring

This is a data-acquisition and analysis platform, not a diagnostic product. It does not yet detect faults or predict failures. The purpose of the pilot is to collect the controlled data that would make those things answerable.

Joining the pilot

Installation and access are deliberately separate. The install link can be shared freely — having the app grants no access to anything. A separate single-use activation code, which expires and can be revoked, is what allows a phone to upload.

If you have been sent an invitation link, open it on the phone you will use. Otherwise contact brk@liberlocus.com.

Documents

Privacy policy — what is collected and where it goes.