How It Installs
Less than 30 minutes per machine.
At the MCC, not on the asset.
CT/VT clamps at the motor control cabinet, a cellular gateway, and a power supply. That's the hardware. No sensors on the machine, no production downtime, no scaffolding, no ATEX permits. Your maintenance team can deploy this.
Installation process
Four steps. One shift. First data within hours.
Every installation follows the same process — whether you're connecting 5 assets in a pilot or 1,000 across a fleet. No specialist contractor required.
CT/VT clamp installation
Current and voltage transducers are clamped onto the motor supply cables inside the motor control cabinet. Non-invasive — no cable cutting, no rewiring, no interruption to power supply.
~10 minutes per motor
Gateway setup
The Samotics gateway connects to the CT/VT clamps and handles edge processing. It mounts inside or adjacent to the MCC. One gateway serves multiple motors.
~10 minutes per gateway
Cellular connection
The gateway transmits data over cellular (4G/LTE) — not your corporate network. No IT tickets, no firewall changes, no VPN configuration. Plug in the SIM, confirm signal, done.
~5 minutes per gateway
Cloud activation
Once the gateway is online, Samotics configures the asset in SAM4. Baseline data collection begins immediately. AI models start learning the motor's normal signature within hours.
First diagnostics within 48 hours
What this eliminates
Everything that makes traditional monitoring slow, expensive, or impossible
Every item below is a real deployment barrier that has killed or delayed condition monitoring projects. SAM4 removes all of them.
No sensors on the machine
No mounting brackets, no adhesive pads, no cable runs to the asset. Everything installs at the MCC — metres or kilometres from the rotating equipment.
No production downtime
Installation happens while the motor runs. No shutdown, no isolation, no production impact. The clamps go on live cables inside the MCC.
No corporate network changes
Cellular connectivity bypasses your IT infrastructure entirely. No firewall rules, no VPN tunnels, no security reviews of network architecture. IT doesn't need to be involved.
No specialist contractor
Your existing electrical maintenance team can install the hardware. No vibration analysis certification, no specialist tooling, no external contractor coordination.
No ATEX permits or confined space entry
The MCC is in the safe zone. No hot work permits, no gas testing, no confined space procedures. This is what makes it possible to monitor assets in hazardous environments at all.
No scaffolding or site access complications
No working at height, no access to submerged or enclosed environments, no coordination with operations teams for asset access. The MCC is always accessible.
Deployment scale
Same process at every scale
The installation process doesn't change between a 5-asset pilot and a 1,000-asset fleet rollout. Only the number of shifts changes.
Pilot
Prove the technology on your most critical or most problematic assets. Typically completed in 1–2 days. Includes baseline configuration and first diagnostic review within 2 weeks.
Site
Expand to full site coverage. Installation teams work through MCC rooms systematically. A 100-asset site typically completes in 1–2 weeks. No production disruption at any stage.
Fleet
Multi-site, multi-region deployment. Yorkshire Water: 1,300 assets across hundreds of pumping stations. Same hardware, same process, same team. Fleet management in SAM4 from day one.
“The major reason we chose SAM4 is because it’s easy to install in the motor control center, far away from our ATEX-zoned production systems. That greatly reduces the cost of equipment, installation and cabling, compared to traditional condition monitoring techniques.”
See the installation in a live demo
We'll walk through the hardware, the installation process, and show you SAM4 running on real assets. From clamp to dashboard — the full picture.