Our AI-powered smart asset monitoring solution, SAM4, continuously monitors asset health, performance, and efficiency and delivers real-time, actionable insights and predictive alerts straight to your inbox.
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What you can expect:
Detection accuracy
False alarms
Trusted by leading industrial companies
Get a no-obligation demo to see for yourself how SAM4 can help you address issues before they escalate and optimize the performance of your assets.
Detection accuracy
False alarms
Trusted by leading industrial companies
Andy Roegis
Industrial Digitalization Manager
ArcelorMittal
Marcel den Blanken
Baggage Service Manager
Schiphol Airport
James Nobbs
Groundwater Engineering Manager, Water Services
Anglian Water
Austin Phillips
Operational Capex Implementation Manager
Southern Water
SAM4 is a mix of hardware, software, and service: You get monitoring hardware (such as sensors and a data acquisition device), access to our online platform, and personal support from our condition monitoring analysts. Our AI models automatically detect and classify most issues and present clear, ready-to-use insights and next steps, while our experts intervene in critical or ambiguous cases to confirm the diagnosis and offer practical recommendations.
SAM4 uses Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) of current and voltage signals from assets, in combination with our own AI algorithms, which have been trained using data from thousands of assets. Changes in these signals reveal patterns linked to both electrical issues in the motor and mechanical issues in the driven equipment, such as misalignment or pump problems. When a developing fault is detected, an alert is automatically generated and classified.
In critical or ambiguous cases, our analysts check the alert based on a library of failure types and contextual information. We also review previous failures for the same asset and consider past feedback and diagnoses, which helps improve the accuracy of our assessments. When the final diagnosis is shared, it contains a brief description of the changes detected, followed by practical guidance on how to validate and resolve issues.
Vibration monitoring measures movement and usually needs sensors mounted on the motor or asset itself. It’s strong for detecting many mechanical issues. In some cases, electrical problems can also show up in vibration data, but the signal is often indirect and harder to pinpoint.
Samotics’ SAM4 uses Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) to analyze electrical signals and only needs sensors in the motor control cabinet. This makes continuous monitoring easier for submerged or hard-to-reach assets, without installing sensors on the asset. ESA can directly detect electrical faults and can also identify many mechanical issues through their impact on the electrical signal. It also supports remote monitoring, can cover the full drivetrain with one set of sensors, and provides energy and performance insights.
SAM4 uses Samotics hardware in the motor control cabinet and is ideal for deploying ESA in variable speed drives (including older ABB drives or other drive brands) or in Direct Online applications. Meanwhile, our ABB drive-integrated solution has ESA embedded directly into modernized ABB drives, so you get full powertrain monitoring for those drives without the need to install additional monitoring hardware.
Both products use the same AI models, online platform, and remote expert team, so for customers the choice is mainly about whether you want to buy or upgrade to a modernized ABB drive; if upgrading ABB drives is not relevant for you, then our standalone solution is the best option.
Current and voltage sensors are installed inside the motor control cabinet (MCC) on the motor power cables. Clip-on current sensors are placed around the three motor phase cables (L1, L2, L3), while voltage sensors are connected to the same phases via protected terminals. To ensure safety, the motor circuit inside the MCC must be briefly powered off during installation.
Once the sensors are installed and power is restored, the data acquisition device is commissioned and begins collecting data. This data is securely transmitted to an on-site gateway which is connected to the internet via 4G, Wi-Fi, or Ethernet. This connection allows encrypted measurements to be sent to the SAM4 cloud platform for monitoring and analysis. Everything fits inside existing cabinets and no changes to the monitored asset or process are necessary.
The project starts with confirming the asset selection and reviewing the related asset information. Once these pieces are in place, we align on timelines and approximate shutdown dates to enable the installation of sensors in motor control cabinets. We send the hardware you need from us in time for the installation window. Your team carries out the actual installation, but our team is available to support the electricians installing and commissioning the setup and make this process as smooth as possible. After installation, we run checks on our end to ensure that the measurements recorded are consistent with the asset’s rated specifications provided (e.g. power, speed, load, etc.).
Shortly after these checks are completed, the assets are approved for monitoring and appear on the SAM4 dashboard. Operational insights are available immediately. Asset health monitoring and alarms become available after the AI models have been trained; this typically occurs 3 to 14 days after installation, depending on running hours and the consistency of the asset’s operating modes.
You install one SAM4 sensor per motor feed in the motor control cabinet. From that single installation point, SAM4 monitors the full motor-driven setup across the transmission path – including the electric grid, VFD, the electric machine (motor), the transmission (belt/chain/coupling/shaft), and the load (pump/fan/mixer, etc.).
The gateway that comes with your SAM4 system handles the connection. It receives encrypted data from the data acquisition devices and sends it to the Samotics cloud. This works either through your site network or through a secure 4G setup. The process is automatic and doesn’t require any action once installed.
We have multiple methods of integration, including our APIs where you can retrieve asset and insight information (documented here and here). If you need other means of integration, please contact us to learn more about additional methods.
SAM4 is secure by design, conforming to ISO27001 standards. Data is encrypted both in transit (TLS 1.2 or higher) and at rest (AES-256). Communication between the SAM4 gateways and the cloud environment uses HTTPS or MQTT. All communication between the devices (installed hardware) is wired. SAM4 gathers its own data, operates independently from any ICS network, and has no ability to change or control any assets.
