Waites Sensor Technologies

Wireless multi-point vibration and temperature monitoring sold as a monitored service, not software

As of 1 September 2026, Waites Sensor Technologies's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Waites sells nodes that monitor up to six measurement points each over a long-range radio link, with analysis included. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. Waites Sensor Technologies is available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Waites Sensor Technologies does

Waites Sensor Technologies makes wireless condition monitoring hardware and the platform that interprets it. A node in a stainless steel housing collects full-spectrum vibration and temperature from up to six connected points, transmits over a proprietary long-range radio with a line-of-sight range around 3,000 feet, and runs for years on internal batteries. Data lands in a hosted platform that applies machine learning models and produces prescriptive findings, and the company offers analyst review as part of the engagement rather than as a separate consultancy. The multi-point node is the commercial distinction. Most wireless vibration vendors sell one sensor per bearing, so a motor and pump train needs four sensors, four batteries and four installations. A Waites node covering six points with wired accelerometers back to one radio changes the per-point cost and, more importantly, the per-point maintenance burden: one battery to replace instead of six, one radio link to keep alive instead of six. For a plant instrumenting hundreds of machines, that difference compounds into the ongoing cost of running the programme, which is where most condition monitoring deployments quietly fail. Buyers are manufacturing plants, food and beverage, pulp and paper, and heavy industry in North America. The trade-offs are proprietary lock-in and pricing opacity. The radio protocol, gateway, sensors and platform are one vendor’s stack, so the installed base cannot be re-pointed at another analytics product later; and Waites markets itself on being a fraction of competitors’ cost without publishing any figures, so the claim cannot be tested before a sales cycle.

What people use it for

A plant instrumenting hundreds of motor and pump trains where six-point nodes cut the battery and radio maintenance burden
A food processing site needing washdown-rated wireless sensors that survive daily sanitation
Monitoring high-temperature equipment where conventional wireless sensors fail before the bearing does
A reliability team with no in-house vibration analyst that needs findings, not spectra, delivered as a service

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 Waites Sensor Technologies.

The radio protocol, gateways, sensors and analytics are a single proprietary stack, so the hardware investment cannot later be redirected at a different analytics vendor.
No pricing is published while the marketing claims a fraction of competitors cost, so the central claim cannot be verified without entering a sales process.
A multi-point node is a single point of failure for six measurement points; when the node or its battery fails, six machines go dark rather than one.
Wired accelerometer runs back to the node reintroduce cable routing and mechanical protection work that single-sensor wireless products were meant to eliminate.
The company is small and its presence is concentrated in North America, so installation support, spares and analyst coverage outside that region depend on partners rather than direct service.

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What people choose instead of Waites Sensor Technologies

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.

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Samsara
Samsara: If the assets are vehicles and mobile equipment rather than fixed rotating machinery
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AVEVA PI System
AVEVA PI System: If the requirement is a plant-wide historian into which existing sensors already feed
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Limble CMMS
Limble CMMS: If the gap is work order execution rather than sensing, since findings still need a maintenance system to act on

Pricing

What Waites Sensor Technologies costs

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

Waites condition monitoring

On request

Priced per monitored machine or measurement point on an annual programme
Hardware, gateways, platform access and analyst review bundled in the programme fee
Installation and sensor mounting quoted as a services engagement
Multi-year agreements typical given the installed hardware
No published price list and no self-service purchase

Capabilities

Features

Multi-point nodes
One wireless node collecting from up to six measurement points
Full-spectrum vibration
Waveform and spectrum capture rather than overall level or scalar features only
Long-range radio
Roughly 3,000 feet line-of-sight link reducing gateway count across a plant
Long battery life
Node batteries rated for multi-year service in industrial environments
High-temperature variant
Device rated for monitoring hot equipment where standard sensors fail
Machine learning analysis
Automated fault pattern detection producing named findings rather than raw spectra
Analyst review
Vendor reliability analysts included in the service model rather than sold separately
Stainless steel housing
316 stainless enclosures for washdown and corrosive environments

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.

How many points does one node monitor?

Up to six, using wired accelerometers back to a single wireless node.

Is analyst review included?

Waites includes analyst review in its programme model rather than selling it as separate consultancy, which is the main structural difference from sensor-only vendors.

What is the wireless range?

Around 3,000 feet line of sight, which usually means fewer gateways per plant than short-range mesh alternatives.

Can I export the raw data?

There is an API, but the sensors and radio are proprietary, so the data path runs through the Waites platform.

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