Factory Safety · OctosX Platform

Heat, air and machines, watched between rounds.

OctosX monitors heat in electrical panels, the air inside and out and the health of pumps and motors, then puts readings and alerts on LED boards where people work.

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The photo shows one plant at night: an electrical room with a panel door open, a motor and pump set, a roller door to the yard with a weather mast, and an LED board above an entrance. Four views can be chosen. Heat: MCC-2, L2 busbar joint, 61.2 °C, warning. Air: machining hall PM2.5 14 µg/m³, hall A CO₂ 820 ppm and Yard B heat index Level 1, all within band. Equipment: pump P-104 drive-end vibration 6.8 mm/s, critical; CW-L1 discharge pressure 3.5 bar, below the low limit of its band. Board: the LED board above the hall entrance shows HALL A, CO₂ 820 ppm. Example values; limits are set per site.

The problem

Rounds see a moment. Risk builds in between.

Rounds say OK at 8 and at 3. In between, a joint warms, the hall air goes stale, a pump starts to shake, and the floor hears last.

North Plant, one day: 06:00 to 06:00

Round sheet

  • 08:00 OK
  • 15:00 OK

06:00. The round sheet says OK twice. Four things changed in between.

Timeline of one example day at North Plant, 06:00 to 06:00 the next morning, with four tracks: electrical heat, air and weather, equipment, and on the floor. Inspection rounds at 08:00 and 15:00 both record OK on the round sheet. In between, continuous monitoring flags: 10:12, machining hall PM2.5 38 µg/m³, advisory. 13:40, Yard B heat index Level 3, warning, and the Yard B board shows ALERT, Yard B heat index L3. 23:10, MCC-2 · L2 busbar joint, rate-of-rise, 61.2 °C, warning. 02:28, pump P-104 drive-end vibration, rate-of-change, advisory. 02:47, leak zone B wet in the pump room, critical, and the pump room board shows ALERT, leak zone B. Example values; limits are set per site.
A snapshot, not a watch
A round records one moment; whatever changes after it waits for the next round.
Out of sight
The joint is behind a closed panel door, the bearing inside a pump, the leak in an empty pump room at night.
The floor finds out last
When an alert lives on an office screen, the people standing next to the problem hear about it last.

Factory Safety

Four areas. One watch.

Each area has its own sensors and its own page. They share one platform, one alert path and one record.

ALERT · YARD B HEAT INDEX L3 NORTH PLANT HALL A ALERT LEAK · ZONE B 01 Electrical room MCC-2 · L2 61.2 °C Warning · 23:10 02 Production hall PM2.5 38 µg/m³ Advisory · 10:12 02 Yard B Heat index L3 Warning · 13:40 03 Pump room P-104 6.8 mm/s Critical · 02:54 Zone B wet · 02:47 04 Pump room board Since 02:47 04

  1. 01 Thermal Risk Electrical room

    Thermalpas contact sensors on the busbar joints inside closed switchgear.

    • MCC-2 · L2 busbar joint 61.2 °C Warning Rate-of-rise flag · 23:10

  2. 02 Air & Environment Production hall · Yard B

    Air nodes on the hall columns; a weather mast in the yard.

    • Machining hall · PM2.5 38 µg/m³ Advisory 10:12
    • Yard B · Heat index Level 3 Warning From 13:40

  3. 03 Equipment Health Pump room

    Vibration and pressure on the pump set; a leak cable on the floor around it.

    • P-104 · Drive-end vibration 6.8 mm/s Critical From 2.8 mm/s since 02:28
    • Leak zone B · CW-L1 flange Wet Critical 02:47

  4. 04 Visual Alerts Pump room door · Yard B

    LED boards at the pump room door, above the hall entrance and in the yard show readings and alerts from the other three areas.

    • Pump room board ALERT · LEAK · ZONE B Critical Since 02:47
    • Yard B board ALERT · HEAT INDEX L3 Warning Since 13:40

Example values; limits are set per site.

A cutaway model of one example site, North Plant. On the right, an electrical room with a row of switchgear panels; the door of panel MCC-2 stands open to show its busbar joints. In the middle, a production hall with machines, a conveyor and air nodes on its columns, and a long LED board above the hall entrance. Beside the electrical room, a pump room with a pump set, its pipes and a leak cable on the floor, and a smaller LED board at its door on the hall side. On the left, an outdoor yard with a weather mast and a third LED board. The tour moves from area to area and shows that area's example readings, which are also listed with the area tabs. Example values; limits are set per site.

  • 01Thermal Risk

    Heat inside closed panels.

    Busbar joints, breakers and lugs inside closed switchgear, read by Thermalpas contact sensors.

    A switchgear room nobody opens between rounds.

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  • 02Air & Environment

    The air people work in, inside and out.

    Indoor CO₂, PM2.5, PM10, HCHO, TVOC, temperature and humidity; outdoor heat index level, noise, wind and rain. Gas (O₂, CH₄, CO, H₂S): Not explosion-proof.

    A packing hall on a hot afternoon.

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  • 03Equipment Health

    Machines drift before they stop.

    Pressure, flow, leak zones, supply current and power, vibration and motor temperature on pumps and motors.

    A sump pump nobody hears.

    Explore Equipment Health

  • 04Visual Alerts

    Alerts where people can see them.

    Indoor and outdoor LED boards show readings and alerts from the other three areas. How each board connects is confirmed per project.

    A loud line entrance where phones stay in lockers.

    Explore Visual Alerts

How it works

Sense. Watch. Alert. Show. Record.

One loop for all four areas. The fourth step happens on the floor.

  1. 01

    Sense

    Sensors on the joint, in the air and on the pump, each one named for the point it reads.

  2. 02

    Watch

    The platform learns each point's normal range. Levels and rate-of-change rules are set with your team.

  3. 03

    Alert

    Each alert names the point, the reading and the change, and goes to the dashboard, email and SMS.

  4. 04

    Show

    The same alert can be shown on an LED board at the hall entrance or a room door, where people are working. Integration is scoped per project.

  5. 05

    Record

    Every reading and alert is time-stamped and exportable, and every acknowledgement is logged.

The Sense step: each sensor reads one point, such as a busbar joint inside a closed panel, the air in the machining hall, the drive end of pump P-104 and the floor around its skid.

The Watch step: pump P-104 has run inside its learned range all night. At 02:28 its drive-end vibration starts climbing faster than its rate-of-change rule allows, from a 2.8 mm/s baseline, and passes its critical level at 02:54. Example values; limits are set per site.

The Alert step: at 02:47 the leak line reports zone B wet, under the CW-L1 discharge flange in the pump room. The alert names the point, the reading and the change, then goes to the dashboard, email and SMS.

The Show step: the same alert can be shown on the LED board at the pump-room door, ALERT, LEAK · ZONE B, in the critical colour. Which readings, which alerts, and how each display connects are confirmed for each project.

The Record step: the rate-of-change flag at 02:28, the leak at 02:47, the board's alert page at 02:47 and the on-call acknowledgement at 02:51, each time-stamped and exportable.

The OctosX Platform

All four areas, one morning view.

Plant status first, what changed overnight next, and the reading behind every alert.

Inside the platform

Screens are configured per site during commissioning.

Where the record comes from

What we can point to, and how we describe the rest.

Thermal Risk, in the field

10+ years of Thermalpas service in Taiwanese power plants, fabs and transit systems.

Independent reviewSensor technology reviewed by Prof. Masafumi Kimata, Ritsumeikan University

All field cases

Field cases on this site are Thermal Risk deployments of the Thermalpas sensor.

Air, equipment and visual alerts: how we describe them

We describe these areas by what they measure and how they are used, not by results.

Air & Environment
Indoor air (CO₂, PM2.5, PM10, formaldehyde, TVOC), outdoor work-site weather with heat-index levels, and gas at confined-space entries.
Equipment Health
Pressure, flow, leak zones, machine current and power, and vibration and motor temperature.
Visual Alerts
Readings and alerts from thermal, air and equipment monitoring, shown on indoor and outdoor LED displays where people on the floor can see them.

Where the lines are

  • Gas detection is not explosion-proof.
  • Heat index levels are worked out from temperature and humidity.
  • AI suggests, people decide.
  • No automatic shutdowns or control actions.
  • LED and PLC/SCADA integration scoped per project.
Data residency
Designed to store and process data in Canada (AWS ca-central-1)
Security
SOC 2 Type 1 in progress, GDPR-aligned
Privacy
PIPEDA-Aligned
Security and data residency

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