MOVUS

Australian condition monitoring combining a magnetic sensor with a monitored alerting service

As of 1 September 2026, MOVUS's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. MOVUS sells FitMachine as a hardware plus subscription bundle with human review behind the alerts. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. MOVUS is available on Web, Cloud, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What MOVUS does

MOVUS is a Brisbane company whose FitMachine product is a magnetically mounted wireless sensor measuring vibration, temperature and acoustics on rotating equipment, paired with a cloud platform that scores asset condition and raises alerts. What separates it from a pure sensor vendor is that MOVUS positions the offer as monitoring rather than as software: alerts are reviewed before they reach the customer, so a maintenance team receives a small number of assessed notifications rather than a stream of anomaly scores to triage themselves. The distinguishing capability is hazardous-area coverage. MOVUS released the FitMachine 3XT EX, certified for use in hazardous zones, with availability from February 2026. For mining, oil and gas and processing operations in Australia and South East Asia, an Ex-certified wireless condition monitoring sensor removes the main blocker to instrumenting equipment in classified areas, where the alternative has been cabled systems at many times the cost or no monitoring at all. That certification, and the local presence behind it, is the practical reason this small vendor wins against global competitors on its home ground. Buyers are mining operations, water utilities, food processing and manufacturing sites, predominantly in Australia and New Zealand, with some international presence often reached through insurance and industrial services partners. The trade-off is scale and geography: MOVUS is a small company, coverage and support outside Australasia depend on partners, and per-asset subscription pricing plus sensor hardware means a large rotating asset population is expensive to cover fully.

What people use it for

A mining operation instrumenting pumps and fans in a classified hazardous zone where cabled monitoring would require an outage and an electrical project
A water utility with a small maintenance team that wants assessed alerts rather than a dashboard nobody has time to interpret
A food processing site adding condition monitoring to existing assets without production downtime, using magnetic mounting
An Australian operator that wants local support and local calibration data rather than a Northern Hemisphere vendor with a reseller

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about MOVUS.

MOVUS is a small independent company, so standardising a large estate on its sensors carries supplier continuity risk that a purchase from a major instrumentation vendor does not.
Support and service outside Australia and New Zealand depend on partners, which means response times, commercial terms and technical depth vary by country in ways the vendor cannot fully control.
Per-asset subscription plus per-asset hardware means the cost of full coverage rises linearly, so most sites end up monitoring a subset and leaving the long tail of small motors unmonitored.
The single condition score is designed for planners rather than analysts, which suits teams without vibration expertise but frustrates reliability engineers who want the underlying spectra to diagnose a specific defect.
Nothing is published on sensor cost, gateway requirements, subscription rate or contract term, so a realistic total cost for a site rollout cannot be estimated without a sales conversation.

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What people choose instead of MOVUS

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

MOVUSvs
Nanoprecise Sci Corp
Nanoprecise Sci Corp: A comparable sensor-plus-analytics offer with automated fault naming and stronger North American presence.
MOVUSvs
Samotics
Samotics: For submersible or otherwise inaccessible motor-driven assets that cannot take a sensor at all.
MOVUSvs
Fiix
Fiix: If alerts have no maintenance system to become work orders in, a CMMS is the more valuable first purchase.

Pricing

What MOVUS costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

FitMachine

On request

Subscription priced per monitored asset
FitMachine sensor hardware required per asset
Gateway hardware required per area
Hazardous area 3XT EX variant priced above the standard sensor
Sold direct in Australia and through partners elsewhere

Capabilities

Features

FitMachine sensor
Magnetically mounted wireless sensor measuring vibration, temperature and acoustics
FitMachine 3XT EX
Hazardous area certified variant for classified zones, available from February 2026
Assessed alerts
Notifications reviewed before reaching the customer rather than raw anomaly scores
Condition scoring
Single asset health figure intended for maintenance planners rather than vibration analysts
Rapid installation
Magnetic mounting and wireless connection installed without electrical work or downtime
Partner delivery
Available through industrial services and insurance-linked risk programmes as a managed offer

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Is there a hazardous area version?

Yes. The FitMachine 3XT EX is certified for hazardous zones, with availability from February 2026.

Do I get raw vibration data?

The product is built around an assessed condition score and reviewed alerts. Reliability engineers wanting full spectra should confirm what data access their contract includes.

Does installation need an electrician?

No for the sensor, which mounts magnetically and runs on battery. Gateways typically need power and network, which is where the site work sits.

Is MOVUS available outside Australia?

Yes, largely through partners including industrial services and insurance-linked risk programmes, with support quality varying by region.

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