MEMSYS Technology
Powered by vibration.
Vibration Energy Harvesting is MEMSYS’s core technology: turning a machine’s own vibration into power. With this technology at its heart, ORYX will be world’s first truly scalable vibration sensor system.
Vibration Energy Harvesting has been researched for more than two decades, yet it has stayed a niche technology. Existing systems need a known, stable vibration profile and custom tuning per asset: workable in a lab, fragile in the field, and impractical to deploy across a real fleet. Real industrial vibration doesn’t behave that way: it’s chaotic and often faint, with no single frequency to tune to. MEMSYS is changing that: we harvest usable power from vibration exactly as it exists on the asset, irregular, low-level, and constantly shifting.
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Our solution
MEMSYS Energy Harvesters harvest power across a broad range of vibration frequencies, not one narrow resonance, so it keeps working as machine speed, load, and vibration levels change, with no per-asset tuning. It’s built from three things engineered together:
- A compliant mechanism that flexes smoothly across a wide range of vibration, instead of relying on one exact frequency
- Piezoelectric elements, matched to the mechanism, that convert that motion into charge efficiently
- Power electronics that start up from very low input and stay efficient as vibration rises and falls
The result: a compact, robust, maintenance-free power module that turns chaotic industrial vibration into a dependable energy source.
Built for the fleet, not just the sensor
One sensor with a good battery is a solved problem. Hundreds or thousands of them, each on its own replacement clock, is not: the cost and labor of keeping a large fleet powered scales with fleet size, not with the value the sensors provide. Because VEH removes the battery from the equation entirely, it removes that scaling cost too. A single self-powered sensor is a nice-to-have; a fleet of them, none of which ever needs a site visit for a battery swap, is what makes large-scale monitoring truly affordable.
Use our Fleet Calculator to get insights in what fleet upkeep costs mean for vibration-based condition monitoring sensors.
ORYX: From EWS-B to EWS-VEH
ORYX type EWS-B is shipping now: a battery-powered sensor engineered for multi-year field life, so fleet-wide deployment is already practical today. It’s built on the same sensor and platform architecture that EWS-VEH, our self-powered version, will use next, removing the remaining battery logistics entirely as fleets keep growing.
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