OptMonitor

Comprehensive,

real-time

monitoring

for confident asset decisions

Continuous monitoring, expert engineering review and clear risk advice for -

motors, generators, cables and switchgear.

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Early fault detection for better decisions

“Detecting developing faults months before failure, OptMonitor allows us to plan maintenance during scheduled outages rather than react to forced shutdowns”.

Reduced forced outages and unplanned downtime

Significant savings across the lifetime of your assets

Months earlier fault detection

Confident maintenance planning and prioritisation

Combined expert and data-driven advice provided via secure connection

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Trusted by leading industries in Australia, NZ and the Pacific including -

Air Liquide

Air Liquide Australia
Cement Australia

Cement Australia
Cleanco Queensland

Cleanco Queensland
FMG Fortescue

FMG Fortescue
Kimberley-Clark

Kimberly-Clark
Incitec Pivot

Incitec Pivot
Mackay Sugar

Mackay Sugar
Mercury Energy NZ

Mercury Energy NZ
Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto
Shell Energy

Shell Energy Australia
Millmerran Power Station

Genuity Power
Tropik Wood Fiji

Tropik Wood Fiji

How OptMonitor works for your assets

OptMonitor delivers certainty and savings over the lifetime of your electrical assets.

Sensors and smart acquisition units (OptHubs) attach to your assets without affecting safety, reliability and production.
Smart acquisition units (OptHubs) continuously monitor your electrical assets. Abnormal behaviour is identified early.
Your monitoring data is uploaded to secure servers continuously 24/7.
Your data is accessible in real-time through the online OptMonitor portal, visible to you and to your team of machinemonitor® experts.
machinemonitor® experts actively analyse live data, historical trends, offline test results, and asset-specific characteristics and knowledge for genuine, developing risks and issues.
machinemonitor® experts provide regular engineering reports with actionable recommendations as well as risk assessments.
The OptMonitor solution provides clear direction for confident decision-making and risk preparedness, reducing maintenance costs and downtime over your assets’ lifecycle.

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Many leading companies are already using OptMonitor for certainty and planning.

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Customisable and asset-specific monitoring

For motors and generators -

Partial discharge
End-winding vibration
Rotor flux
Air gap
Shaft voltage and current
Acoustic noise and vibration
Offline test inputs where available.

For cables and switchgear -

VLF tan delta, dielectric indexes, offline partial discharge (PD) and jacket tests.

OptMonitor is designed to manage and interpret a wide range of diagnostic parameters and assets.

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What industries use OptMonitor?

Turn your data into knowledge with a trusted monitoring solution for every industry.

Defence

Oil & Gas

Renewables

Power & Energy

Processing Plants

Utilities

Manufacturing

Mining

OptMonitor Online Portal

With the OptMonitor Portal, you can check the health of your assets anytime, anywhere.

The OptMonitor portal makes it easier to understand, track and manage risk across your monitored electrical assets.

Built specifically for the OptMonitor solution, the portal offers more than PD charts and trends. The OptMonitor portal combines and visualises data from multiple sources.

So, you’ll have instant access to the complete picture of your asset’s condition on one, interactive intuitive platform.

24/7 visibility through the OptMonitor portal

Track the evolution of risk levels for monitored assets

Review identified failure modes

Access offline test results including PI, winding resistance, DDF, insulation resistance, visual inspections, and other diagnostic measurements.

Prioritise maintenance by analysing asset criticality, failure probability and financial impact.

24/7 secure access to all your reports, maintenance records, and recommendations from our engineers.

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Periodic Expert Engineering Review and Risk Assessment

With OptMonitor, you don’t need to be an expert in data interpretation.

OptMonitor ensures that investment in online monitoring translates into informed maintenance decisions and evidence-based asset management.

machinemonitor® engineers perform a complete diagnostic review of the monitored assets every six months.

This review includes:

Detailed online data analysis and trend evaluation

Correlation of online and offline data (where available)

Risk-of-failure assessment

Failure mode considerations

Structured reporting with recommendations

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OptHub Acquisition Units

The OptHub acquisition unit is the focus of the OptMonitor online Partial Discharge (PD) monitoring system for cables.

The OptHub combines advanced PD detection with IoT connectivity, giving you remote supervision and seamless data integration through the ‘always on’ machinemonitor® OptMonitor Portal.

OptHub captures and processes high-frequency PD signals from connected sensors on your cables, delivering accurate insight into the insulation condition of your critical assets.

With up to 32 input channels, OptHub scales easily across large industrial sites and distributed networks so you get the benefits of wide coverage and a low cost per monitored asset.

Monitoring Capabilities

OptMonitor is designed to be flexible and scalable.

By customising the OptBridge communications unit, you can integrate additional monitoring systems and parameters as your plant requires.

If you already have a monitoring system but are not extracting meaningful insight from the data, our engineers can integrate it directly into OptMonitor through a tailored solution.

Our engineers actively analyse the data and deliver structured reports that convert complex machine information into clear, actionable maintenance decisions.

OptHub Sensors

With OptMonitor, it’s simple to monitor all cables and switchgear continuously without operational interruption.

machinemonitor® installs HFCT partial discharge (PD) sensors at cable terminations, connecting them to the OptHub via low-loss coaxial cables for accurate, reliable signal capture.

Select from several HFCT models designed for non-intrusive installation and broad compatibility across asset types.

These highly sensitive sensors detect PD activity in switchgear, cable ends, joints, and along the cable length.

Advanced OptMonitor technology allows expert engineers to analyse PD pulse polarity and pre-localise potential defects directly from live data, reducing site visits and maintenance downtime.

Secure Data Transmission with OptBridge

To ensure reliable and secure data flow, machinemonitor® installs an OptBridge communications unit connected to the monitoring system.

machinemonitor® supplies and installs industry-leading online monitoring systems, supported via the OptBridge, for secure data transmission.

OptBridge acts as an industrial gateway that:

Collects data from the monitoring system

Pre-processes and structures datasets

Securely transmits information to the OptMonitor backend

OptBridge units are provided as rental equipment, ensuring flexibility as your monitoring needs evolve while maintaining secure, reliable data integration.

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Frequently Asked Questions

OptMonitor is an electrical asset monitoring solution from machinemonitor® that combines continuous online monitoring, expert engineering analysis and data intelligence to help detect developing faults early and support confident maintenance decisions.
Sensors and smart acquisition units collect data continuously. That data is uploaded securely to the OptMonitor portal, where machinemonitor® engineers review trends, correlate data sources and provide reporting, risk assessment and practical maintenance recommendations.
OptMonitor is used across motors, generators, cables and switchgear. It can also incorporate relevant offline diagnostic results and other monitoring inputs depending on the asset and site.
OptMonitor can monitor a range of parameters. Partial discharge is one important part of OptMonitor, but the platform can also incorporate other diagnostic parameters and offline test data depending on the asset type. For rotating machines this may include end-winding vibration, rotor flux, air gap, shaft voltage and current, and acoustic noise and vibration. For cables and switchgear it can also include offline PD, VLF tan delta, dielectric indexes and jacket tests.
OptMonitor uses secure data collection and transmission. Depending on the application, secure servers, acquisition units and communications gateways such as OptBridge are used to maintain reliable data flow and structured data integration.
Yes. OptMonitor is designed to support visibility across multiple assets and sites through the online portal, helping teams compare condition, track risk and manage maintenance planning more consistently. This theme appears in the older FAQ and remains directionally sound, but I would confirm exact wording with the engineering team before publishing.
In some cases, yes. If you already have a monitoring system but are not extracting meaningful insight from the data, machinemonitor® can integrate it into a tailored OptMonitor solution.
That depends on the asset type and monitoring scope. For cable and switchgear applications, this may include HFCT sensors and an OptHub acquisition unit. Broader deployments may also include OptBridge communications equipment to support secure data transmission.
The OptMonitor portal provides easy-to-understand live access to asset condition information, including risk levels, asset status, failure modes, trend data, offline results where available, and related maintenance records and recommendations.
Monitoring data is visible continuously, and machinemonitor® engineers actively assess live and historical information to identify genuine developing issues. In addition, a formal engineering review and risk assessment is provided every six months.
The review can include online data analysis, trend evaluation, correlation of online and offline data, risk-of-failure assessment, failure mode considerations, and structured recommendations to support maintenance planning.
Depending on the application, OptMonitor can be offered through full rental, hybrid purchase and rental, or tailored arrangements based on your asset mix and monitoring requirements.