Sensor Networking Cost Model

Are the high costs of deploying cabling in your industrial environment preventing you from deploying a remote sensor monitoring solution?

Cable lengths of 200 ft (60m) are commonly used to install industrial wired sensor monitoring systems:

• $15ft¹ ($50/m) for bare cable &  installation
• $35ft²  ($115/m) bare cable deployed on cable tray or ladder rack
• >  $100ft³ ($330/m) deployed in rigid steel conduit
• A 200ft deployed wiring solution can cost from $3000 to over $20,000 for a single run including materials and labor
• Cabling costs can greatly increase with other common factors:  Cost greatly increase if the cabling needs to extend outdoors where you need to trench, deal with right of way issues, resurface existing pavement

¹ Labor cost $60/hr per NECA; ² EATON ; ³ Electrical Contractor Reference

Have you considered a Reliable, Multi-path, Wireless mesh Networking Solution?

Here is a comparison of traditional wired sensor network installation vs a Wzzard wireless system. The assumptions for this comparison are as follows:

20 sensor network capable of monitoring 10 machines with 2 Sensors per machine with a centralized controller at an average distance of 150 ft to each sensor.

Sensor Network System Cost Summary

Wzzard Savings over traditional wired sensor network from 60% to over 90%!