Conveyor-belt monitoring

A jamming or wearing conveyor shows up first in its motor's power draw. Watch three-phase electrical data in real time, get alerted on overloads, and automatically capture video of every incident.

What you can see

• Live three-phase power, current, and voltage for the conveyor's drive motor
• Total and per-phase power on a ready-made overview dashboard
• An alert the moment power crosses an overload threshold
• A short video clip of each anomaly, captured automatically for review
• A labelled history of maintenance events, jams, and power anomalies

The journey

1. Install the pack — one step seeds the energy-meter data model, dashboard, capture rule, and annotation forms.
2. Provision the gateway — register it with a token; it provisions its own certificate and connects.
3. Wire the meter — the gateway reads the three-phase energy meter over Modbus and publishes readings.
4. Add a camera — point it at the conveyor; it streams live and is available for incident capture.
5. Set the overload rule — create an alert rule on total power for your conveyor's normal range.
6. Run — overloads fire alerts, the capture rule records a clip with pre- and post-roll, and you review power trends and footage side by side.

What the pack installs

The mkd.conveyor-monitor pack seeds:

• A sensor profile — the Eastron SDM630 three-phase meter: per-phase and total voltage, current, power, power factor, frequency, and energy
• A device profile — the Raspberry Pi gateway with a Modbus power-meter component and a camera capability
• Annotation classes — maintenance event, power anomaly, and belt jam/stall
• A media-capture rule — records a clip on any warning or critical event, with a ten-second pre-roll and twenty-second post-roll, choosing cameras by coverage so newly added cameras are picked up automatically
• A dashboard — "Conveyor overview": total power, per-phase power, voltage, and total current

The overload alert rule itself is created after install, because it needs the specific sensor on your commissioned device.

What's yours, and what's the platform's

You own the conveyor, the meter wiring, and the camera placement, and you set the overload threshold that matches your equipment. The platform handles provisioning, ingest, the dashboard, alerting, automatic capture, live streaming, and export. Everything specific to this use case lives in the pack, not in the platform.

Hardware

• Gateway — Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W reading the meter over Modbus and connecting over cellular. Firmware: embedded/products/conveyor-monitor (see also embedded/products/gateway-rpi).
• Meter — Eastron SDM630 three-phase energy meter.
• Camera — any supported camera on the gateway, streaming over brokered WebRTC for low-latency live view and incident capture.