Ranger Pro

Wireless condition monitoring system

Every asset is now
within reach

Wireless is no longer a novelty. It’s
mainstream. Gone are the days ofbulky devices with huge antennas,
batteries that last weeks instead ofyears, unforgiving point‑to-pointtransmission instead of robust meshtopologies, and data streams thatallow for little more than trending
instead of the rich spectral content
suitable for true diagnostics andmachinery insights. You can
now embrace wireless withoutcompromising your expectations.
Our Ranger Pro™ system represents more than a decade ofrefinement and innovation, taking all that we learned in our
first generation of Ranger and EI.mesh devices, improving
it, and offering the industry’s most connected, capable,and comprehensive wireless solution. With our wireless
Ranger Pro hardware, our broad portfolio of portable andwired condition monitoring hardware, and our System 1
ecosystem to bring it all together seamlessly, every asset istruly within reach.

The right data for the right results

When you look closely at many wireless offerings, you’ll start
to see a lot of “not exactlys”:• Not exactly the high-frequency range you needto do rolling element bearing diagnostics withacceleration‑based measurements• Not exactly the collection intervals you need to provide
proper surveillance/condition monitoring• Not exactly an open protocol that conforms to prevalentindustrial wireless standards like ISA100 and WirelessHart™,
allowing interoperability with other devices fromother suppliers• Not exactly integrated with an ecosystem capable ofcondition monitoring for all your various data streams,
whether portable, wired, or wireless• Not exactly the flexibility to choose a hosted subscription
solution or an on‑premises perpetual solution• Not exactly the footprint you need for both triaxial
vibration measurements and temperature from a single,
compact device• Not exactly the full dataset you expect with both overall
and full waveform data
Why settle for “not exactly” when you can have exactly what
you need with Ranger Pro.

We deliver a rich dataset of both overall andwaveform data from each Ranger Pro device—
enabling real condition monitoring. Where othersdeliver data suitable only for trending and nowaveforms at all or those with insufficient resolution,
we deliver the goods. Up to 3200‑line spectrumsand frequency response from 5Hz to 10kHz fromtriaxial sensing elements. With Ranger Pro, you don’ttake a step backwards just for using a wirelesssensor. Spectral averaging, acceleration enveloping,simultaneous collection of acceleration/velocity/
peak demod, and the ability to correlate vibration
data with available process data—it’s all at yourfingertips with Ranger Pro.

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You spoke. We listened.
OpenThe design of Ranger Pro is theresult of extensive customer
feedback and more than a decadeof experience with industrial wirelesssensing. Ranger Pro gets it right.

A reliable, online
solution to complement
reliability/maintenance
Cost-effective entry tocondition monitoring

A non-proprietary architecture that works with not just one but both oftoday’s leading wireless standards: ISA100 and WirelessHART.

Approved

Hardware that delivers global Zone 0 and Div 1 hazardous area
approvals so you can put wireless sensors wherever you need them,without restriction.

Configurable

Data can be collected at preset intervals, on-demand, on-vibration(machine on/off thresholds), and on-severity (alarm thresholds).
Intervals are fully configurable with separately adjustable intervals foroverall and waveform/spectrum data, helping maximize battery life
and avoiding too much or too little data.

Ranger Pro features• Truly wireless: sensors, power, and radio
embedded in a single package• Velocity (5-1 kHz), acceleration (5-10 kHz)

Wireless network
personality module• Supports both ISA100 and WirelessHART protocols• Replaceable lithium-thionyl chloride battery• IP67 hermitically sealed electronics• CSA, ATEX, and IECEx approvals for Div 1and Zone 0/1• Temperature: -20°C to +85°C• Range: 200 meters (line of sight)• Security: 128-bit AES encryption

Industry-standard,user‑replaceable battery• Long battery life: up to 5 years

Comprehensive

Both overall and waveform/spectrum data can be collected fromall three axes—in velocity (X/Y/Z), acceleration (X/Y/Z), and peak
demodulation units (Z only)—along with temperature and battery
level. That equates to 16 measurements from each sensor, providing
comprehensive assessment of asset health and sensor readiness.

Low-maintenanceBattery life for typical configuration settings exceeds three years andcan be as long as five years. Because the battery does not have to beremoved and reinstalled to set up the device, the complications thiscreates for hazardous areas are eliminated.

• System 1 connectivity—full dynamic and static
data capture and display• DCS connectivity via Modbus for static data

Connected
Triaxial or uniaxial
embedded vibration sensor

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Ranger Pro is part of our System 1 ecosystem, ensuring that every asset
type can be addressed with a right-sized hardware solution whileconnecting seamlessly with all of the other assets in your plant.

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Overall + waveform data

Overall data

Condition monitoring
dashboard

We get it

Process control
dashboard

When it comes to wireless, interoperability is big deal. Different protocols, different
gateways, and different topologies for different measurements just don’t cut it.
That’s why we made absolutely certain that we embraced both of the leadingindustrial wireless standards—ISA100 and WirelessHART.

Gateway field access point

This flexibility means that regardless of who you use for wireless process
measurements—Honeywell, Emerson, Yokogawa, or anyone else—if they conform toone of these two standards, Ranger Pro will fit right in.
And it means that as these standards grow and evolve over time to offer enhanced
features and functionality, we’ll grow right along with them.
Meshnetwork

Meshnetworkand others

Temperature

Level
Vibration

Pressure

Flow
Temperature
Pressure

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Vibration
Temperature
Flow
Pressure
Level
Corrosion
Gas leakAnd many others

Because we support ISA100 and WirelessHART, your wirelessinfrastructure isn’t limited to just our Ranger Pro sensors. You canselect best-of-breed sensors, gateways, and other components
from any manufacturer supporting these standards, confident thatRanger Pro will effortlessly co-exist. It moves wireless vibration frombeing yet another silo to being simply another point in a mixedvendor infrastructure. And in addition to lowering the costs ofbuilding and maintaining a wireless infrastructure, it means that yourwireless condition monitoring strategy can consist of more than justtemperature and vibration to include other measurements and process
conditions—with the diversity of choice afforded by dozens of global
industrial automation suppliers.

Vibration

Level

Flow7Part of yourplantwideecosystem

Nobody wants dozens of systems. Instead, they toleratethem because, all too often, the integrated solution is either
deficient and a best-of-breed solution is preferable, or no
meaningful integration exists and it simply isn’t an option.
The installation of wireless sensors is rarely a plantwide
strategy in and of itself. You usually have a mix of assets,
each with different data requirements and economic
implications of failure. System 1 was designed to span allof your assets with a variety of hardware that is right-sized
for the application. The result is a plantwide ecosystemthat allows you to manage every asset under a single
software umbrella, fed by hardware that is speciallydesigned to balance capabilities, cost, and asset failuremodes. Each part of the ecosystem, from our portable datacollectors to our API-670 compliant systems to our wireless
Ranger Pro—and everything in between—is designed todeliver world‑class, best‑of‑breed capabilities along with full
System 1 integration. No longer do you need to compromise
capabilities for integration. With Bently Nevada and System 1,
you can have both.

Process historian

Process control network
Condition
monitoring
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Process
controldashboard

Wired and/or
wireless processtransmitters

Bently Nevada network

Process data

Very few machinery problems can be solved when armed only withvibration data. Only by understanding the conditions that surround themachine—pressures, temperatures, flows, levels, temperatures, viscosities,
gas/fluid compositions, and other parameters—can the cause/effectinteractions between process and asset be properly understood. In
fact, one of our customers quipped “pumps don’t die—they’re killed”
when commenting on off-design process conditions and their impacton machinery.
This is why we’ve taken such care to ensure you can easily get processdata into System 1 where it can be compared and correlated withasset‑related measurements like vibration and temperature. In manycases, the process measurements already exist in the DCS and can simply
be shared with System 1. In other cases, a wireless process transmitter isthe right answer. Regardless of where and how the process data originates
and resides, System 1’s open protocols allow it to be imported and form avital part of your condition monitoring capabilities.

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Ranger Pro

Portables

Sensors

HighestContinuous
83500 Series

Asset criticality

LowestMeasurement frequency

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A system is only as strong as its weakest link. So no matter
how capable a wireless sensing infrastructure might be,
if it is tethered to mediocre software, it will equate to a
mediocre solution.
System 1 software is designed to excel by delivering therichest, most capable toolset in the industry, along with anotification and decision support environment that doesn’t
require tedious manual review of data to spot anomalies.
Instead, it can review the data for you—automatically andcontinuously. But even with all these automated analytics,
we fully understand that there will always be a place fordeep dives into the nuances of the data when solving
especially difficult problems. System 1 delivers the power
you need for such tasks.

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Industry-leading alarm management
and navigation tools.

2.

Statistical alarm capabilities remove
the need for number crunching andmanually fine-tuning thresholds.

3.

No need to look at every spectrum, every
plot. Use the Alarms or Events list to focus
on machines with degrading conditions.

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Industry-leading trend tools.

5.

Industry-leading alarm setpoint andalarm event identification.

6.

Easily synchronize cursors across plots.

7.

Ultra-fast, ultra-easy setup using“Quick Config” to address measurement
parameters, alarm bands, and initialthresholds.

8.

Industry-leading time-waveform tools.

9.

Industry-leading toolset and diagnostic
capabilities for both rolling element andfluid-film bearings.

641310610. Comprehensive reporting of fault
diagnosis, either within System 1 as
Plot Records, or for sharing externallyas professionally formatted Word
documents.

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Easily navigate to time period of interest
using mini-trend.

12. Built-in rolling element bearing databasewith 30,000+ entries—configuration of
cursors and spectral bands for bearing
fault frequencies is a snap.

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13. Industry-leading spectral tools.

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Globally approved

In the ongoing battle of portable or wireless, we think there’s
a much better solution: and.
Even when wireless delivers all the data you need, there’s
still a viable place for portable instruments. Sometimes it’s
because you want to be machine-side to do analysis while
process and other conditions are changing. Or perhaps you
are balancing the machine in-situ. Or maybe you simply
need to supplement your wireless data with measurements
at locations where you don’t have a sensor—such as apiping connection or a foundation bolt. Whatever the reason,
System 1 brings our industry-leading data collectors andRanger Pro sensors together in a unified environment so thatno matter where the data originates, you can see it, analyzeit, correlate it, and act on it.

Approvals are not an afterthought at Bently Nevada. In fact, one of the very first
design decisions we make with any hardware platform are the hazardous locations
it needs to address based on the industries we serve.
Customers told us that one of the reasons they prefer wireless instead of manual
data collection in some applications is precisely because they want to keep people
out of areas where a flammable atmosphere is continuously or intermittently
present during normal operations. That’s why Ranger Pro sensors carry global
Zone 0 and Div 1 approvals, allowing them to go where you don’t want people—andwhere many other wireless systems can’t because they lack approvals entirely or
carry only Zone 2/Div 2 certifications. And, provisioning Ranger Pro doesn’t require
you to cycle power on sensors by removing and reinserting batteries—a difficultand expensive undertaking in a Zone 0/1 area.

• CSA Class 1 Division 1• ATEX/IECEx Zone 0• Conformity compliant with all
CE and FCC/IC requirements

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Easy.
Really easy.

It goes whereyou can’tCall us crazy, but we were under the impression that wireless should beeasier and more cost-effective to deploy than a wired system, yet just as
reliable and with all the flexibility you demand.

It isn’t always desirable—or safe—to go
where you need to make a measurement.

We understand you often have multiple use scenarios for your wirelesssystems. Sometimes you want a truly permanent solution that simply
goes where the economics of a wired system won’t allow. Battery life isparamount along with a rich dataset because supplementing the wirelessreadings with portable data may not be practical—or perhaps safe.
Other times you want something you can quickly deploy temporarily as away to put problematic “bad actor” assets into intensive care where they
can be monitored with intervals in hours instead of the weeks or months
entailed by portable rounds. Battery life is far less important than frequent,comprehensive data.
Ranger Pro delivers both. You’ll be up and running in no time at all,armed with the data you need to get the job done.

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Whether it’s the dryer end of a papermachine, a confined space, a hazardous
atmosphere, a place that’s impossible
to access, or simply a location that’s
cumbersome to reach without special
equipment or permits, Ranger Pro brings
the data to you—safely and reliably.

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